Show the local newspaper an say how many men would live in a state that had no nam newspaper how many of our readers would like a county that had none and what would a town of five thousand inhabitants do without one no ono one will deny that news papers are a good thing for the country an advantage to a community and a benefit to every citizen of that community yet tot how many people are there in this as well as in evory every section who refuse to support the local paper from which they must admit they derive these benefits A newspaper is not by any means an object of charity but everyman who gets a portion of the general good resolution froin rom tile the local publication without in any way reciprocating is an object of chariety tho dull doll may ask aak in what way dow doea tho local organ benefit bantit me it jac tells tho the world where you lm liv the resources of your locality it invites capital to como come wad and develop those resources and by constantly picturing out tho the advantages of tho the region induces others athers to locate thero there and raise tho the value of your land if you are a merchant it helps help your ayour baseness ba hu siness by bringing people around you it tells those people whore you mm are and what you have for sale bale it pleads with them to patronize patio patt onize you instead of going to the city and allows them that you hare just the thing they want and that your prices are a ro better if anything than those of tho the larger places of course you may hold aloof find and slyly take advant advantage ago of your neigh neighbors neighborly borla enterprise in sup porting the homo home paper but your conduct is like lik that of a boy wilo who slips into a circus under a mans coat tail |