The Rodney telegraph. (Rodney, Miss.) 1838-1840, 1839-07-04
TO TUE PUBLIC.

lVetys
TO TUE PUBLIC.
The rights of editors and publishers of
papers have been too long neglected. JUS
tice will never be done unless themselves
assert their rights and enforce the most rigid
rules, which in the end will be found alike
salutary to the public and beneficial to those
engaged in the press. Publishers of papers
have been SO long imposed upon by the COM
munity at large, that they are considered to
some extent degraded class of beings,
when in fact there Is no vocation in life so
honorable, deserving of SO high considera-
ton, productive of so much good, class
that exerts SO powerful an influence. 1t is
known to be proverbial for the debtors to
newspaper publishers to consider their de-
mands as the last to bepaid-debts TO which
there is attached no moral obligation and
which they can refuse to pay with justice
and honor: hence it is incumbent upon the
conductors of the press to asset their own
rights and resolve, severally and jointly, to
bring all patrons Of newspaper underrhe
same obligations that attach to other con-
tracts, or always remain in poverty and
want, with thousands due them from the
most solvent men in the country.
We call upon all editors and 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.
lsr. No subscription received without
payment in adrance.
2nd. No subscription received for less
than six months.
3rd. Advance payment will be required
from all transient advertisers.
18th. To announce no man for any office,
either State or County, without the adrance
payment of ten dollars.
5th. Political circulars charged as adver-
tsements, and payment IN adrance.
9Th ALI advertisements of a personal al
cation will be charged double, and payment
required in advance.
7th. Election tickets will not be printed
without order, nor delivered to any person
without payment.
S.h All subscribers, without respect to
persons, who are delinqucnts, on the first Of
October, will be stricken from the list and
their accounts put in suit.
The above rules, we the undersigned
pledge ourselves 10 abide by.
JAMES A STEVENS,
Editor of the Yazoo Wing.
JAMES HAGAN,
Editor of the Vicksburg Sentinel
S. II. B. BLACK,
Editor of the Natchez Courier.
BESANCON &. HALLIDAY,
Publishers ofthe Mississippi Free Trader
THOMAS BROWN,
Editor of the Rodney Telegraph
]. M. DUFFIELD.
Editor of the Grand Gulf Wing
VIM. M. SMYTH,
Editor Of the Grand Gulf Advertiser
VIM. B. TEBO,
Editor of the Fayette ADVERTISE
A. b. s., S. l.. CORWINE.
Publishers of the Yazoo Banner
ARCH. s.. CLARKE,
Publisher Of the Port Gibson Correspondent
P. B. BARKER,
Editor of the Southern Argu.
NJ. MOWER,
Publisher of the Southern Sentine
GEORGE A. WILSON,
Editor Of the Holly Springs Banne
DIR. Hagan of the Vicksburg Sentinel
opposed 20 the extension Of grace provide
dor in the 9Th rule, and says he does not il
tend to wait till the LIST Of October to put
in practice. All subscribers to the Sent
mel IN Mississippi, who do not pay up by Il
LIST of August, will be stricken from tt
list.
The Port Gibson Correspondent taxi
exception to the 8th rule only, and max
the firstsof April, 1910, the time.
John B. Coleman
TTAS resumed the practice Of La
Office in Port Gibson, next door
he Branch of the Planters Bank.
April 10, 1889 tN9
S Leaf Lard.