Jasper County Democrat, Volume 12, Number 35, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 August 1909 — ABOUT LOCAL PUBLICITY. [ARTICLE]

ABOUT LOCAL PUBLICITY.

Merchant Who Will Not Advertise Doesn’t Deserve Support, Says a Farmer. In an audience composed mostly of the members of the Farmers’ union one of the speakers recently expressed the mutual friendship between the farm and newspaper'Nn the following: “As a rule, the farmer has no firmer friend than that of the country press. The home paper is distinctly the farmers’ own paper, supported directly and Indirectly by the farmers, who compose the backbone of the subscription list of the printer and largely for what the enterprising merchant advertises. Now, bsother, lot us not forget our friends. Let us see that subscription is paid a year in advance. We can do

“The man or the paper that fights my battleß shall have my support. Another thing, the merchants advertising are the ones that make It possible for us to get a good local paper. The man or local firm that is too penurious to advertise anfl help support the local press has no right to the farmer’s patronage. “I promise hereafter to go to the live advertiser and the man who does his share in supporting the local press, thus contributing to my support, rather than buy of a man who proposes to take all and give nothing back. If farmers as a class would support their friends, the other fellow would soon go out of business.”—-Florence (Ala.) Times.