The Arkansas advocate., 1835-02-13
From the Boston Pearl. PERIODICAL PATRONAGE.
BY GEO. W. LIGHT.

BY GEO. W. LlGHTs
 have this moment received 3 two dollar note for years subscription to one of my peiodicals-the first subscription money have received for little age, of no small amount which as truly belonged to me some six years ago, more Or less, as ever note of Mir. Biddie's did to our worthy President. Therefore 1 am in d little better mood for wriino this sermon than l thought of being large number of the patrons of the pe- rodical literature of this country are among he best men Of tue community. 1 mean, ioo periodically speaking -notwithstand
 ing axity in cancelling subscription ac- counts is one of the besetting sins of the land. They pay. They are none of your men that subscribe to patromze merely and therefore either are dumfounded or run mad at your want of gratitude in sending a bl for work they simply wished to see flourish, and on nthat account alone were will lng 10 lend the sanction of their names to. They don't need to have 1t proved to them that printer Is a mau of flesh and bones like themselves-though that's not always Inc case-and Is sustained, whenever he happens to be sustained, by the same sys- tem of sustenance with all other men = nor that man is less likely 10 run into aankruptey when hardly any body pays him for working at the press, than an individual most of whose debtors prove to be bad pay m any other department of business.
 When they buy d journal of a man--recelve thread 1t, have their happiness increased and are made more intelligent and better Nyr--they think that 1t Is the part of a man to let 1t be seen that they have some understanding of the means by which an sed'or as well as any body else is obliged to iSe, and without which man can nc bet Ter write for their edification than he can perform the labor that promotes their own smolument. They pay, too, in season.
 iney don't wait till the printer IS dead, or obliged to run away to get rid of the con saole-or till he has used up more paper
 man the amount of the subscription, in wrl- ang polite, imploring and perhaps to them insulting duns. They learn the terms, buy 1elr intellectual goods, and then like any m o,aer gentlemen, hand over the cash.
 inese men--as the facts above stated auundantly prove-are no less distinguish ~ y ihelr intelligence and right appreeia- 'on ot the importance of the periodical p'ess' .s than hy their honor and general up- rs r,ssnlness, even in those minor concerns of ae where reputation or self interest Is ever S s0 h'sle at stake. By these men, and by Mem alone--and 1t is no mean encomium upon their characters--is the periodical press oi the country supported as well as 1t as s' All other selfnamed patrons not only sus'fuct the operation of this great in'ellec- .ua' engine of the age, but are the occasion embarrassment ard blasted prospects aaong an intelligent and industrious class v men, which if shown to their view would aaAe x men of no more moral purity than
 "e'nselyes even, tremble to contemplate.
 Out may be considered little too se-
 as'. ,e'e' without some qualification, upon
 ,sa ss,'aln class of the community which needs
 m n, 0e noticed apart from the non-paying or
 fHrI,aay-time H subscribers to periodicals,
 aA's IS class of men who haUe honor and
 m.ls' ms principle, and who exhibit them iii
 us' s.s oi the relations of life but who, ney-
 U, .,s,'eess, are so influenced by the too gen
 v Opposition to an editors breathing