Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1851-12-19
THE WILMINGTON JOURNAL.
wlLmlxGToN. N. c.. FRIDAY. DEC. as. 1881.
Our Business-To Contributors.

Bgsiness-TO Contributors.
Newspaper publishers are no doubt patriots--ue
are but We forced to confess that with all
patriotism, We cannot afford to carry on business
simply for the public good. We have strong nat
ural propensity for eating and drinking. and this
propensity has been INDUCED in for great length
of time that fear it has grown up into an uncon-
querable habit There are also certain absurd laws
both social and legislative VIII oh render return to
first principles in the way of costume moral if not
physical impossibility. These laws forbid the hu-
man animal going at large attired simply in his
innocence and nohing else. 1t is also usual at night
to place the body in a recumbent position upon a
certain four footed structure called bed and this
bad habit we have also contracted In fact we have
got into the way of eating and drinking wearing
clothes and sleeping If nights, and have become
much attached to these somewhat superstitious OBJ
servances that we really believe the dispensing with
them would occasion us considerable inconvenience.
and might even prove I'M urious to our health. For
the supply of the wants thus created, depend
ant upon the receipt of certain monies derived from
various connected with the establishment at
the corner of Front and Princess Streets Whining
ton, &C. In plain terms dependant upon
our business for living, and must be excused if we
secure that object.
Of course everybody knows that business paper
is as much, if not more dependant upon its adver-
Using patronage than it is upon its subscription list
This advertising patronage is simply the price paid
by those who make their private business known
through its columns, for the privilege of so doing
1t is to be presumed, as matter of course that all
topics of public interest will be noticed in the read
ing columns. Matters of merely private interest
should be inserted as advertisements, and paid for
rs such.
We have heretofore been in the habit of publish
ing long obituary notices. and the proceedings of
societies, incorporated companies, etc. gratis, and
often to the exclusion of other matters of general in
terest Frequently, very frequently indeed, those
most beloved in their circle not known be-
yond it. and the long obituaries which friends indite
as tributes to their memory possess sort of inter-
est to the public So with societies. Their proceed
ings are chiefly interesting to the members, to whom
they are already known assuredly few others care
to see them--while incorporated companies GER
tanly as able and have good right to pay for the
publication of their business private individuals.
The smallness of our daily paper and the accumula-
ton of these matters in the columns of our weekly
have forced us to adopt the rule which appears in
our advertising terms Obituaries, etc, partake to
some extent of both public and private character,
and as such We have adopted scale of half rates
with regard TO them. We hope that our friends will
perceive the necessity, which, they may be assured
we have felt, and which has forced to adopt the
rule alluded to. Original poetry will be charged
full rates.