The Rodney telegraph. (Rodney, Miss.) 1838-1840, 1839-08-15
TO ThiE PUBLIC.

The rights of editors end publishers of
Hpers have been too long neglected. JUS
ice will never be done unless. themselves
Ssert their rights and enforce the:,ost rigid
thles, which in the end will be found alike !
mlutary 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 be paid-deb,s to which
. there is attached no moral obligation and
which they can refuse to pay with justice
and honor: hence it is incumbet tbeon the
! conductors of the press to assert their own
rights and resolve, severally and jointly, to
bring all patrons of newspapers under the
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
J them at the head of their papers and strictly
adhere TO them.
LIST. No subscription received without
payment TN adrance.
2nd. No subscription received for less
I than six months.
2. 3rd. Advance payment will be required
from all transient advertisers.
4th. To announce no man for any office,
either State or County, without the ddrance
payment Of ten dollars.
5th. Political circulars charged as adyer-
tisements, and payment in Advance.
9th. All advertisements Of personal al
tercation will be charged double, and pay
ment required in advance.
9TH. Election tickets will not be printed
without order, nor delivered to any person
without payment.
9Th. All subscribers, without respect to
persons, who are delinquents, 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 to abide by.
JAMCIO IA = e EiNO,
Editor of the Yazoo Wing.
JAMES HAGAN,
Editor of the yicksburg Sentinel
s. H. B. BLACK,
Editor Of the Natchez Courier.
BESANCON g. 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 Advertiser.
A. b. & S. L. CORWINE.
Publishers of the Yazoo Banner.
ARCH. S, CLARKE,
Publisher of the Port Gibson Correspondent.
P. B. BARKER,
Editor Of the Southern Argus.
M. MOWER,
Publisher of the Southern Sentinel.
GEORGE A. WILSON,
Editor Of the Holly Springs Banner.
DIR. Hagan of the Vicksburg Sentinel is
opposed to the extension of grace provided
for in the 9Th rule, and says he does not in
tend to wait till the LIST of October to put it
in practice. All subscribers to the Senti-
mel IN Mississippi, who do not pay up by the
LIST of August, will be stricken from the
list.
The Port Gibson Correspondent takes
. exception to the 9Th rule only, and makes
the first Of April, 1910, the time.
Tnhn u Gnlnmon