Piney Woods planter., 1839-12-28

TVN A GVVGCLs
THE rights of the editors and publish.
ers ofpaPers have been SO long neg.
'lected. Justice will never be done un.
less themselves assert their rights and
enforce the most rigid rules, which in the
end will be found alike salutary to the pu.
1lc and beneficial to those engaged in the
press. Publishers ofpapers have been SO
long imposed upon by the community nj
large, that they are considered to some
extent degraded class Of beings, when
IN fact there is no vocation in life so hon
orable, deserving ofso high consideration,
productive of SO much good, class that
exers SO powerful IN influence. II is
known to be proverbial for the debtors TO
newspaper publishers to consider their de-
mands as the last to be raid--debts to
which there is attached no moral obliga-
tion, and which they can refuse to pay
with justice and honor hence il is incum-
bent upon the conductors of the press to
assert their own rights, and resolve, sew
erallJ ana jointly, tc bring all patrons Of
newspapers under the same obligations
that attach to other contracts, or always
remain in poverty and want, with thous-
ands due them from the most solvent men
in the country,
We call upon oil editors ard publishers
of papers who approve of the following
rules, TO endorse them by their signatures
place them at the head of their papers,
and strictly adhere to them.
Let No ,oons..nl a.
payment in GdpGnce.
I'd. No subscription received for less
than six months.
I'D. Advance payment will be required
from all transient advertisers.
9TH. To announce no man for any Office
either state or county, without the ad-
vance payment often dollars.
9th. Political circulars charged as nd
vcriisements and payment required in
adpance.
9th. All advertisements Of personal
alteration will be charged double, and
payment required in advance.
7th. Election tickets will not be print
ed without order, nor delivered to any per
son without payment.
persons, who are delnquents on the lst of
October, will be stricken from the list and
their accounts put in suit.
The above rules, we, the undersigned,
pledge ourselves to abide by.
The above has been signed by nearly
all the editors and publishers in the state,
and we hesitate not to say, will be enfor-
cedrigidIy.
We did not sign the 'trules" sooner, but
experience has taught US that We should
have done so. The lst Of October was
the time fixed on, and our year ends not
till February, after which we shall be GO
verned by them; for, we are convinced,
nothing else will do
TOTHlLL g. EISELY,
Publishers Of the Piney Woods Planter.
The subjoined, from the Philadelphia
Public Ledger, expresses our sentiments
on this subject:
MEANNESS.--Some newspapers are
eternaily harping on that foolish theme
A.Do, good patrons, pay US our money, ana
permit us to eat. Dear, kind, honest,
good natured, benevolent, charitable pat
rons, pay your subscriptions; we cannot
get along without money; we know your
disposition to encourage the press; don't
forget your poor, slavish, beggarly print
err" SC. &c. Now, as the saying is, the
world owes every man living; to obtain
it he may work, beg, pick pockets, make
sLinpIasters, according TO the directions OF
his taste and talents. But one Of these
hranches of business is enough; it he cho-
aes 70 work, let him work, and if ne pre-
fers begging, let him beg; but il is curious
;rdeed' IF a man must work and beg, both.
Tho Ditiful tone of supplication used boy
certain papers, confesses want o. worm
thew appeal to the wrong PrincIplc--they
address themselves to the compassion OF
MAR subscribers, when they have demands
- tAeir Justice. Ifthey ask payment tor
~ Equivalent rendered, let them speak
@ a,, like mep, and not whimper, whine ana
oa m l;Le mendicants. If they ask for mo.
sue sue ''sf when they have no claims founded
i IN law and Justice, they are beggars 10
fact. and may act accordingly. VI 'n,s
80 az certain. that any business winch
oJ ,onst he eked out with beggary, is
-. worth following; and five have cor
n rsct View Of the subject, hoeing potatoes
cleaning sinks, or any other kind Of non- con
sst employment, is much more resPeJsa " "na
BE h than that ''p.y me for the sake O e0a-
rityn system,