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

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'sss. TO THE 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, a 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-debis TO which
there is attached no moral obligation and
which they can refuse to pay with justice
and honor: hence it is incumbet theon 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 10 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.
1st. No subscription received without
payment IN adrance.
End. No subscription received for less
than six -snonths.
Bird. Advance payment will be required
from all transient advertisers.
18th. To announce no man for any office,
either State or County, without the ddoaace
payment often dollars.
9Th. Political circulars charged as adver-
tisements, and payment an adrance.
9Th All advertisements of personal al
tercation will he charged double, and pay
ment required in advance
9Th. Election tickets will not be printed
without order, nor delivered 70 any person
without payment.
9Th. 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 to abide by.
JAMES A STEVENS,
Editor ofshe Yazoo Wing.
JAMES HAGAN,
Editor of the Vicksburg Sentinel
S. II. b. BLACK,
Editor of the Natchez Courier.
BESANCON 81 HALLIDAY,
In Publishers ofthe Mississippi Free Trader
THOMAS BROWN,
..5if Editor of the Rodney Telegraph
:aslsba j. M. DUFFIELD.
Editor Of the Grand Gulf Wing
% WIN. M. SMYTH,
Editor of the Grand Gulf Advertiser
f1 VIM. B. TEBO,
Editor of the Fayette Advertiser
A. B. s. S. L. CORWlNE.
at Publishers of the Yazoo Banner
= 8e ARCH. S. CLARKE,
= Publisher of the Port Gibson Correspondent
49,. P. B. BARKER,
49, Editor of the Southern Argus
NJ. MOWER, s~-
Publisher of the Southern Sentinel
GEORGE A. WILSON,
AL Editor Of the Holly Springs Banner
Ur. 11dgdu VI tuts y iChouUiSo oSntihSi :.
opposed to the extension of grace provided
for in the Sth rule, and says he does not IN
-~trnd to wait till the list of October to put !
in practice. All subscribers TO the Senti
mel IN Mississippi, who do not pay up by thu
.s.s'1st of August, will be stricken from th'
list. ~ tae sss
~ The Port Gibson Correspondent take
81 exception to the 9Th rule only, and make
30 the first Of April, 1910, the time.
as -, John B. Coleman
s-;nfHTAS resumed the practice Of Law
IS EU Office in Port Gibson, next door I
- tie Branch Of the Planters Bank,
ii April 10, 1899 tao
q 81, - - 81 Leaf Lard.
;2usl(l Kegs leaf Lard, a first rate articl
~ expressly for family use, for sale
the store of MURRAY. & GARNETT, b
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June 81. 1889.
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