The Evansville daily journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ia. [i.e. Ind.]) 1848-1862, 1854-06-17

Newspapers in every part of the country
have lately been increasing their rates OF ad-
vertising, and many of them their prices OF
subscription. This has been rendered abso-
lutely necessary by the advance in cost OF
material Of oil kinds, labor, provisions, &c
We were just on the point of writing some
thing relative to this, when the following ar
ticle from the Louisville Courier seemed so
appropos, that We republish it, and hope it
will be generally read:
We notice in our exchanges accounts OF
recent meetings in Bridgeport and Baltimore
of the members Of the press in Connecticut
and Maryland. I'm each convention there
was an unanimity of opinion with reference
to the necessity of an increase in the present
rates of newspaper labor, such as charges
for subscription and advertising. The Con-
necticut editors have resolved on an advance
of twenty-five per cent. over their present
prices.
We deem this movement one OF eminent
propriety For years past the charges made
by the newspaper offices throughout the
country have been not at ali commensurate
with the real worth OF the labor performed
or the enjoyment afforded by the different
presses. The rates of our craft have been en-
tirely too low. and to this cause as much as
any other is attributable the undue apprecia-
ton placed upon the influence OF the public
print in many sections Of the country. HAD
publishers maintained from the first theiI
right to receive an adequate recompense fol
labor performed and capital, both OF money
aud intellect, employed, the position OF the
} press throughout the United States would
now be far more indep endsnt.--
Cheapness has been to too great and ex
tent the ruling article in the creed Of news
paper propretors, and that unwise policy ha:
ruined more laborious men OF talent, ant
llaced the immoveable yoke of scrvtuds
, upon a greater number in our profession thar
all other causes combined. In the large
cities we hear occasionally of wealth being
obtained by the publication OF a newspaper
but how rarely is this the case outside o
the great commercial emporiums. The ex
perience Of distinguished editor written IL
a private letter TO his friends, conveys in thu
following sentence too much truth. lie says
"At present | am in the Country recoverin.
) from fourteen years of editorial lho-ba'
, eyes, crooked backed and broken nerves
with little to show for it," Indeed but
very few ever have anything to show 70
. their labor save broken down constitutions
But Just as the advance in prices would b
under any circumstances, We hold th lait IN,
peculiarly at the presentvery article o
past year the cRsi IN price and there has beer
,hyUresponding advance IN the wages o
most workmen. Our own experience is tina
the cost OF publishing this paper is now NOR,
than one-third greater than il ever hes been
: The reason is very apparent. Paper is al
the time going up. wages are ever on IN,
a rise, rents are continually advancing, the eos
of every description Of material is increas
ing-and of all things the prices for news
paper subscription and advertising alone ar,
o sta ionary. They seem more fixed indeed
: than any thing else from the rock of Gibral
tar to the never veering stars. What remedy
are we TO have. If an advance W Ill not b.
tolerated, there should be an increase Of bu
siness. That is the only redress for the evil
from which we suffer. Let our friends wht
enjoy the advanced rates in every busines
and calling give the newspaper men a lift il
this their time of extremity.