Rensselaer Republican, Volume 18, Number 35, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 May 1886 — Stand by your Home Paper. [ARTICLE]

Stand by your Home Paper.

_Xlie following from the Hartford '"City Times, while-not entirely new, contains sofimeh of worth that it will bear reproducing: “You may be able to get a large city weekly filled with accounts of murders, scandal eases, cock fights etc., for the same money that you pay for your local paper, but those city weeklies do not advertise your town and make your property more valuable. They don’t help along vour churches; they don’t publish your society news; they say nothing of you or your town, and have no interest in you. A good newspaper is as much advantage to a town or county as are good schools. If one of our farmer friends should happen in one of these offices be would find out in abotft two minutes that he had no cordial welcome there, such as he would receive in the printing office at home. Stand by your home paper for it always stands by you, and is ever on the lookout for you.” The above is from an exchange and is very true, but we are sorry to say that a great many don’t look at it in that fight. They don’t consider that they derive any benefit from a home, paper other thet the mere pleasure of reading what it contains. They don’t seem to realize the fact that the local paper is- continually lafcoring for the upbuilding of home in every respect, while the city naper does nothing for them.