Plymouth banner. (Plymouth, Marshall County, Ind.) 1852-1855, 1853-11-24
Ii il not Right.

w mist ldDOr anu all the essential ar
!lcleS consumption have risen in price.
newspapers remain at the very low rates
fixed years ago.
The reduction of weekly papers to
Sl.OO per annum was great mistake as
we felt it to be at the time it was done;
but. we were forced by the conductors of
the papers in large cities to do so. Max
ing large profit on the matter in their
Daily issues they could afford to put it
up into weekly form at the cost of pa
per, press work and mailing. These pa
pers were rapidly forcing out of circula.
ton the papers of this State, and we were
compelled to fix the same price. or else
to have but limited number of renders
The price of the paper on which news
papers are printed has greatly increased
and now very little above expenses is
made even by the city paper. We hear
of several of those in the West, who
were the first to put down their paper at
81 90. now regret it. and are anxious to
get hack to the old price Of So. 90. 1t is
thought that no man who takes interest
enough in what is going on would refuse
to pay $500 for large paper. Postage
has been so much reduced that at such
rates newspaper reading is one hundred
per cent. cheaper than any other furnish
ed
No one should want TO obtain benefit
from newspapers without paying a rea-
sonable compensation therefor; and we
believe that if those who first reduced
the price would place it hack to S2,0Q,
all interested would follow the example.
We clip the foregoing from the State
Journal Of Saturday. An attempt to eff
feet any thing without the simultaneous
effort Oil the part of the press general
ly, would be worse than useless, yet the
changes spoken of by the Journal and OF
which we spoke last week, loudly call for
some action on the part Of newspaper
conductors in their own defence. But
how' is there TO be anything effected TO
sustain the publishing business amidst
the general rise Of everything those en-
gagged in it, have to buy, when con-
temtible undertaking or worse than ret
Ting is practiced by such establishments
as the one at Lafayette under the control
of Luse and Brother. We trc credibly
informed that they offered to print and
deliver TO the County Auditor at this
place, 500 copies of the delinquent tax
list for this county-making nearly one
page and half Of the Banner, rule and fig
ure work, for the pittiful sum of So. The
wages of journeyman printer on the
job. at % els per 1000 ms, could not be
less than $3.50.
At proprietois price-say so cts.-per
1000, the mere cost type setting alone.
would be S27.00. When the paper, press
work, ink. wear and tear &c, is added i.
the undertaken Of such job would truly
have a good tirae Of 1t, in doing it
at IS,
By way Of answer TO the Journals in
quirv-we must confess that it is right.
when publishing houses thus earnestly
engage in crushing their own prospects
in business. County pride in sustain
ing the local press. is lame leg to lean
upon, and although the press is as surely
looked to in defending the interests of the
County in which it is published, and the
rights and regulations Of her citizens, as
it has an existence amongst them, yet a
fe W dollars or cents would seem to be
sufficient inducement for county au.
thorities--either in an organized or indi
vidual capacity--so deprive it Of the las
crum of comfort in the way of patronage
They should recollect that their de pend
encies are mutual, and that unless The
limited patronage of the smaller countie!
in the State is cheerfully and iDdiscrimi
nately bestowed upon their own papers
at home, they gre just as sure TO riC
themselves Of that necessary evil;
Newspa per--as it is sure there are othe
places for its more prosperous location.
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PeierSOn'S Magazine. The December mum