Vermont telegraph. [volume] (Brandon [Vt.]) 1828-1843, 1839-08-28
VERMONT TELEGRAPH.
BRANDON, WEDNESDAY, AUG. %. 1899.

BRANDON, WEDNESDAY, AUG. %, 1899.
The article below in regard to the terms
of the Telegraph is kept before the read
ers of the Telegraph, lest all interested
should not see it. 1t will appear several
times in the course of eleven weeks TO
come.
IL will here say, as | designed to
do last week, that those $3.50 subscrip-
tons which have been paid and do not
close with the current volume. will not be
affected by the new arrangement. That
is, the contract will be fulfilled on nv
part. They will not be changed with
" volume, until their present volume
closes.
PRICE OF THE TELEGRAPH.
Ia former number of the Telegraph I
lntlmated that the price, to a part of the
subscribers, would be raised, at the close
OF the present volume. now give time.
ly notice-commencing with the COM
mencement of the last quarter of this VOL
ume-that, after the presentvolume closes.
the Telegraph will be held at taoo dollars,
invariably, to all subscribers who paw
within four months.
This, It. will be seen, will affect only
those who now receive the paper in bun.
dies of twelve or more, at one dollar and
fifty cents EACH Among my reasons for
this step are the following:
The paper never ought to have baen
placed below two dollars, to any class of
subscribers. This price, with any pat
ronage the Telegraph has ever had, or
Is likely to have, will afford the publisher
but meager remuneration for his labors
and responsibilities, compared with what
IS received by men in other business
Anything subtracted from this, Just SO far
narrows the scale, stints the means, and
contracts the measures-which is not the
way to do business. Whatever the bust
ness be, let those who carry it on be fair
ly compensated, and then it can be done
as it ought to be.
Again The present arrangement is
highly perplexing to the publisher, and,
in spite of all he can do. involves degree
of Partially, and a measure of injustice
towards his subscribers, which he is de-
termined to submit to no longer. An eff
fort will be made and bundle raised 10
the number of IL. This number will
continue, perhaps 8 months, or 6 months.
or year, when one, two, or more will
fall off, The remaining number. if not
more than half dozen, will claim their
papers at the $3.50, because, they saw
this was the price when they subscribed.
and 1t is not their fault that the others have
fallen of. They continue 10 send in their
$3.50, and there is no way TO get the re.
Ai"lhuet without SUNG them, which [
never do. and of course lose it, and am
thereby necessarily made to be partial in
my dealings with subscribersf From
such difficulties and perplexities am de-
'efmined to extricate myself at bound
| will stay in this quagmire no longer
Fat justicsa."
The same enterprise, self-deniaI aud nersever-
ance' which are necessary to insure success IN
publishing the Telegraph, would, if emploved !,
various other kinds of business, insure twice the
pecuniary recompense.
10 the honor Of some, I ought here % say thew
arc exceptions to the treatment here descr;hed =,
When their bundle falls below the number. tbev
pay the % as they onght. But much the larger
number do otherwise. I have more than half !.
score OF bundles, now, that have fallen below the
number, and yet they continue to pay only as he
/ fore. - "