New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1848-10-27
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Talk with Patrons.
We have recently taken y step long meditsted
and deemed indispensable, yet from time 10 time
deferred, in requiring our City readers to pay for
The Tribune l2{ instead Of cents per week our
former price. We have been surprised that so
little objection or complaint has been excited by
this change still, some have complained and,
while we could easily dispense with their patron
age had they seen fit 10 withdraw It, we cannot
20 readily consent 10 suffer In their good opinion.
We ask them 30 peruse and consider this explana-
ton
We can make money enough by publishing at
cents per week or even at 6-perhsps more al,
this latter price than at higher one. We have
never borrowed any trouble on the pecuniary as
pect OF the matter. But II our paper IL served at
cents per week, must afford 1t TO the Car
riers at 81 per hundred copies, of which the bare
white paper costs US so to 20 cents according to
quality. We have then 80 10 40 cents per hun
bred copies toward the cost Of Editing, Correspond
snce, Telegraphing, Newscollecting, Reporting,
Ink, Printing, Publishing, &c. &c However large
the edition, this cannot 60 far, and the main rei-
anco FOR ell but the cost OF Paper mus, be placed
upon Advertising. OF this there is no lack, and
we have at oil times quite as much as we can in
sert--ofton twice as much. But this can be insert
cd only at the expense Of other matter and IT is
q fair entmste that Daily OF the size OF The
Tribune can only be afforded 10 its patrons at one
cent per copy by surendering three Of its pages to
Advertising. or at nine cents per week by giving
up at least two TO like uses whereas, at l2I
cents per week. three -fourths Of the space may
D. f.v al ubap reontrad
and. If pressed for room, even more. Which is
really the cheaper issue, all things considered
can hardly be debstsble.
The simple question 10 then presented-ls there
Q palpable need that two thirds of the superhcies
Of journal as large The Tribune should be de-
voted TO such matter as the Editors shall deem
worth publishing unpaid for We answer that to
our mind such necessity is clear. We do not OF
course presume that any one reader will daily
peruse all the matter contained in journal OF this
SLEEVE know well that very few will do So
Bot one must see the Marine Intelligence another
the Court Reports third is specially interested in
the Markets a fourth in Politics. and so on. Nay
the man who has read the paper six months with
ont glancing at the Ship News. at length learns
that some dear friend has embarked at a distant
port to visit him, or that some valuable goods are
on the way TO him and all at once Marine Intel
hgence becomes 10 him a matter OF the deepest
and liveliest interest SO with other departments.
To strike out or cut down this and that depart
mont because every body does not scan II every
day, is to disappoint many, injure some and de
stroy the usefulness of the paper Thus great
portion of Daily must be surrendered to every
day matters which make no figure in the public
eye, but which the public would seriously miss ii
they were omitted.
There remains but limited space TO be de
voted 70 matter Of universal though unequal inter-
est--News, Foreign and Domestic, Literature
and tho Topics Of the Day These shall be fruitful
or barren, instructive or misleading useful or use
less, according as they are treated Merely dry
record of occurring events-of elections fires muir.
ders, forgeries, battles Instructions &c.-can be
OF little moral value-they may even be SO present
cd as to be actually perncious. To be eminenily
useful. a journal must be able to trace events
back to their causes and forward to their natural
consequences-to show why they have occurred
and whs, they portend. Ii must not merely mirror
whatever is but suggest that which should be.
We think this cannot SO well be done IN sheet
OF our sse II from the necessities OF its oonsttu-
ton, It is Obliged to consider the profit Of its sd
verti'ements before the pleasure OF its readers.
Some OF our patrons viii doubtless feel con
strained to leave us because Of the additional
charge OF three cents per week We part with
them in all Kindness on our part. and not without
expectation Of welcoming them back again ere
many weeks have elapsed. 1t may be hard for
some to pay the cost Of a paper Of tobacco per
week in addition to its former price, bat we mean
TO make our paper SO good that they cannot afford
20 do without IT, At al events. We shall trv.
" VERMONT, We spprehend, is not destined
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