The Cairo Daily Bulletin

THE LOCAL PRESS.
(From the New York Tribune)
Nothing is more common than to hear people talk of what they pay for advertising, etc., as so much given to charity. Newspapers, by enhancing the value of the property in the neighborhood, giving the localities in which they are published a reputation abroad, benefit all such, particularly if they are merchants or real estate owners, thrice the amount weekly of the meager sum they pay for their support. Besides, every public spirited citizen has a laudable pride in having a paper of which he is not ashamed, even though he should pick it up in New York and Washington. A good looking, thriving sheet helps property, gives a character to locality, and is, in many respects a public convenience. If from any cause the matter in the local or editorial columns should not be up to your standard, do not cast it aside and pronounce it good for nothing, until satisfied there has been no more labor bestowed upon it than is paid for. If you want a good readable sheet, it must be supported. And it must not be supported in a feeling of charity, either, but because you feel a necessity to support it. The local press is the power that moves the people.