Show WE copy tho the following from thai calliape Cali ape and it hits the nail on the head without any further comments A great many of papers have suspended publication wibb n tile tho past few years many of those ero very I 1 good newspapers too 1 hr ir N have been a credit to much lar gorand larger and more enterprising towns than those in in which they were published tho cause of tho the demise of these papera was wag eis AS a general rulo rule to much antor on tor prise on tho part of the publishers and not enough support from the mor merchants chants and people the publishers have tried to improve their paper with each issue but the dc dew public havo have failed to k bep up with tho the publishers pace an and increase their patro patronage nake but in in havo reduced their patronage or with die it if entirely under such cibeu ma it arwas w as ablo for the pi publishers bno ashe w ra t to continuo to make I 1 im M rit I 1 prove menta af e and they were compelled olet li tho paper slip back into that grovo grove at which the their r found tho the pub L li cation of their shoot sheet the most pro fit ablo then would como a howl from tho the public that tho the paper was degenerating and thoy did not care to pay for such an apology for a newspaper thus would begin the struggle for existence and sooner or later somo man put his foot on tho the collar bone of the struggling eggling paper and crush it out of existence in every town there theres ia achand stuck in their pockets grumble at every on o it m moro oro enter stand on connors zi and gawk element who have nothing else to do but to criticise criticism critic ise the actions of those who work for the best interests of the town the newspaper works the most for a town and consequently receives a groat great deal of attention from those gawks and chronic grumblers grumbl ers ors thoy they give the publishers advice each week and that is about the extent of the pitr which they give tho the they borrow a copy of the paper read it and when they meet tho the editor they stop him and ask him if lie ho was too sick to got out and rustle up some news worth printing another curso curse to tho the newspapers are the two or throe three dollars a mouth month advertiser who think they own the body and soul of tile publishers and expect them to work day and night aind if they do not boo eo alio editors constantly seated on tho the chinin shinin shining 1 end of their jeans and forging borgin 0 editorial thunderbolts thunder bolts they imagine that tile newspaper is being slighted and that tile the money given tho publishers is thrown n away and would have leoil boon L better invested in the fluid extract of hops newspaper men are conscientious workers they do more for a town than any other person with an equal amount of capital invested and thoy they got get los for their work than a man who does one tenth of their work the only thin thing 0 that they get more of than anybody else is cussing bussing cus sing most people when they depart from the town whore where they spent the best of their life working for the building up of the town they leave with pleasant recollections behind thorn them when the newspaper man loaves leaves the town where lie he wasted the best days of his life slaving for the people of the town lie ho carries patches behind him tho the difference rence between the ordinary individual aud and the broken down newspaper tian tho the only difference between the man and the atmosphere 14 s a i pair of cheap trousers and they aro are fast fadling from the publics 0 gaze gaze that the poor journalist is in constant fear that his storn stern individuality will soon he bo battling with the elements it is hard bard work to make a paper published in a country town pay more mole than expenses and publishers dare bot incur any unwarranted expense failure stares the man in the face who attempts to run a four page paper in a two page town |