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Show pelled to let the paper slip back jnto that groove at which thay found the publication ot their sheet the most profit able. Then would come a howl from the public that the paper was degenerating, and they did not care to pay for such an apology for a newspaper. Thus would begin the struggle for existence; and sooner or later some man put his fool on the collar bone of the struarglmg paper pa-per and crush it out of existence: In every town there is haiids-stuc'c-iu their-pockets, gnimble-at-every enter prise-because it-isn't-more enterprising stand-on-street corners-and gawk element ele-ment who have nothing else to do but criticise the actions of those who work for the best interest- of the town. The newspaper works the' most for a town and consequently receives a great deal of attention from these gawks and chron-. ic grumblers. ,Tbey give the publisher advise each week and tht is about the extent of the patronage which they give the paper, They borrow a copy of the paper, read it arid when they meet the editor they stop him and ask him if he was too sick to get out and rustle up some news worth printing? Anoter curse to the newspaper are the two or three dollars a month advertiser who think they own the body and soul of the publisher, and expect them to work day and night and if' they do not see the editors constantly seated on the shining end of heir jeans and ;orgiug editorial thunder-bolts, thy imagine that the newspaper is being slighted and and that the money given the publishers is thrown awav and would have been better invested in . the fluid extract of hops. Newspaper "men are conscientious workers. They da more for a town than any other peison with an equal amount of capital invested, and thev get less foi theirjwotk than a man who does one-tenth one-tenth of their work. The only thing that thev get more of than anybody tlse is cussing. Most people when they depart from the town where they spent the best days o( their lile working lor the upbuilding of the town, they leave with pleasant recollections behind. When the newspaper news-paper man leaves the town .where he wasted the best days of of his life slaving slav-ing for the people of the town hecarriea patches behind him. That's the clitter-enoe clitter-enoe between the ordinary individual and the broken down newspaperman. The only difference between the news-i"!"' news-i"!"' i"-"' '" hr atmosphere jg3PML o( cheap trousers and they are so fail fading from the public's gaze that the poor journalist is in constant fear that his sfern Individuality will soon be Itat-tling Itat-tling with the elements. 'Running a newspaperunder the many disadvantages which are met by Utah journalists is.an uphill business and we do not wonder that so many paper succumb suc-cumb to the inevitable. It is hard work to make a paper, published pub-lished in a country town, pay more than expenses, and publishers date not incm any unwaranted expense. Failure stares the man iii the face who attempts to run a tour page papei in a two page town Corinne City Caliope. Too Much Enterprise Killad Them A great many of Utah's papers have suspended publicatiion within the past few years, Many of these were very goods newspapers too. They would have been a credit to much larger and more enterprising town than those in which they were published. The cause of the demise of these papers was, as a general rule, too much enterprise on the parts of the publishers and not enough support from the merchants and people The publishers have ' tried to improve their paper with each issue but the clear public have failed to keep up with the publishers' pace and increase their patronage, pat-ronage, but instead, have reduced their patronage' or withdrew it entirely. Under Un-der such circumstances it was impo sible for 'the publishers to continue iq make improvements and they were com.- |