Jasper Banner, Volume 2, Number 10, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 April 1855 — Home Papers. [ARTICLE]

Home Papers.

j There is a class of men in every j community who do not take a home! paper, because they can get some eastern paper a little cheaper. Such men are always foreign in their thoughts and knowledge. He. in fact, in an intellectual point of view 7 does not live in the community where his body walks abroad daily, but: Over the columns oi his eastern paper 1 Ihe lives in the scenes and transac-l tions of the City and State where his! ■ paper is published. True, he ouca-1 sionally hears from his own State, | and is startled once in awhile with an I item of news, which his neighbors who take a home paper knew two weeks before; and as he meets them bores them to death with what is news to him, but old and stale to his neighbor. And yet., poor man, be is perfectly unconscious that he is a boro, and is laughed at behind his back for being so far behind the intelligence of the times. We have been not a little annoyed ourselves* by some of these men who do not! take a home paper. Men who feci the greatest interest in the election j have come to our office the day after j wo have published the news, and put, us to the trouble of telling it all o ver to them by the word of mouth. We think if they cannot afford to take a I home paper they ought to be willing j to wait two weeks until they can get ft through their eastern papers. It seems to us if these men who do not take a home paper were aware that everybody who meets them and hears them converse, knows them to be at least two weeks behind the times, and wonder at the man,s ignorance, they would not sleep until they, had subscribed for some paper at home.

Such a man Ts^iviysTbefiln3““Bi6” intelligence of the age in every respect. If he is a farmer, produce goes up and down before he is aware of it, unless his neighbors tell him of [it. Banks fail, and he takes the mortey, before he is aware ofit; Insurance Companies fail, and his house is uninsured weeks beforo he knows it; and perhaps his house during that time .burns down; and when lie exults that he is “insured,” he is told by the man who docs take a home paper that the company failed the wjgek beforo. His wild land is advertised and sold for taxes, while he is poring over the columns of his “cheap” eastern paper —his cattle •tray, and involve him in a long bill in “keeping,” when had he taken a ham© paper he would havesccuthem advertised as taken up weeks before. He wants torefta form, but his neighbor who takes the home paper sees an adyertitejnelt for ope, and sells his at a good price. And thus, in those onil sa t k/ui aa n/t At »«» incse nnu cl uioußnna owier wnjs, the man who don’t fake a home paper is “too late to supper.” Hqd he not much better subscribe? Mat Jho circulstiea of tho suspended Free Banks of this State is said by the ■ Indian* Republican to be reduced to ■ f 1 ,000,0110. . 4}