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Show A OOOI) Olt JSAI) POLICY? BiticitiAM City is the only town in the Territory of less than 5,000 inhabitants which has the nerve to try to sustain more than one local paper. Whether this state of things shows our little city to be unusually unusu-ally wealthy, prosperous and enterprising; en-terprising; whether it shows a want of union among the citizens and business men; or whether it is scorching its fingers with an experiment ex-periment with a bad stroke of busi- ness policy, time will soon prove. Even the richest and most powerful mining camp in, our Territory, Terri-tory, Park City, with its 5,000 people, peo-ple, has time and time again proven iU inability to keep two papers alive. Pay son and American Ameri-can Fork, both as large, if not larger, than Brigham, has each buried several papers during the past twelve months, lack of support, sup-port, not competition, sending each of those defunct journals into an untimely grave. Then there are several other cities in the Territory, Terri-tory, almost if not as large as Brigham, which have no papers at all; others still which boast one paper each, which sheet, by its niggardly support and gaunt aspect, reflects more injury than benefit on the town it tries to represent. Thought and observation will prove to any business man that one paper well and liberally supported sup-ported is of vastly more benefit i and importance to any place than two or three poorly supported sheets. Tlie one in a credit, the other a discredit to the town. One good paper is as much as a town like Brigham can " support without a big effort and an unnecessary drain ; when it essays es-says to do more it bites off more than it can chew without a severe strain. Attempting to support too many papers has sucked the blood from Ogden. Let Brigham not pattern her proven bad policy.! Two papers here may bo all right, j but the second will prove a very, very expensive luxury. The Bugler, no doubt, has made some glaring mistakes during its three years of existence. It may have adopted some wrong course of policy, but we claim we have been benefited by just such errors, profiting, rather than being injured, in-jured, by those traps, which beset the pathway of all young journalists, journal-ists, whom it usually takes two or three years to find out that some one besides themselves in this world knows a thing o- two; and to learn to take the advice and counsel of older and more experienced experi-enced heads. The Bugler is the Pioneer paper of Box Elder County. W'c ' think if any preference is shown, all other things being equal, that we should, like the first settlers on real estate, be given that preference. prefer-ence. Judging from the most satisfactory sat-isfactory patronage The Bugler has rcceiwd, during the past, we reasonably conclude that the people peo-ple havj decided to stick to their old ship. The Bugler. |