Indiana American. [volume] (Brookville, Ind.) 1833-1861, 1854-04-07

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there shall be a sufficient vote, English
German schools shall be erected.
From the Connersville Telegraph.
BRooKvILLE, March %, 1854.
DEAR SIR:--Ihave read with interest
the first No. of your paper. and en-
closed YOU will find SO for it for one
year. 1t is a matter Of rejoicing to me
that you have the talent, the taste. and
the means OF getting up so good pa
per,--but more especially that you
have the good sense to charge SO for
it. | have always deprecated the
practice of publishing CHEAP PAPERS
1t has done more to degrade the press,
than any other obstacle it has had to
contend against. sln the first place il
causes publishers GET UP papers on a
cheap. trashy plan; and drives the ed
itor and publisher to setting type, in
stead of preparing, condensing and ar
ranging the news and other matter for
the paper. When see paper de-
creasing in price, it looks as if the pub
Usher was hard run to compete with its
neighbors, and as a last resort attempts
to undersell them.
This cheap system was first started
by the trifling cheap concerns of Phil
adelphia, who had neither literary OF
real merit enough to give a circulation
so they resorted to the dishonorable
trick in trade of selling poor article
below the market price. The same
practice has extended to all parts Of the
country. Now. | will defy the world
to produce a man, who has sense enough
to publish country newspaper, who
will dare to say that such paper can
or should be published for less than
80 per year. Then whydo they do it
tbs because they have not the talent,
and VIM to make their papers win
except on the ground that they art
cheap.
In the next place, the system Of
publishing cheap papers, drives men o
talents from the Press, into other de
partments of business, where hon
orable competition has not descended
to the lowest tricks of the trade.
1t is true there are some inducement.
held out to publishers of country pa
pers to attempt to compete in price will
the silly trash of city dollar papers
gathered from the dailies. There ar,
in all communities few poor, sting,
| souls, who have not the sense to ap
preciate good paper-nor county o
town pride enough to induce them Il
take county paper. These mel
want a cheap paper-no matter wha
it is filed Withhold or new, chaste o
: flthy-so it is cheap. The constan
grunting and growing of these soulles
creatures make some weak minded pub
fishers believe that if they will reduc
: the price, enlarge the type, fill up witt
large heads to their merchants adyer
tisements, (who also pay only hal
price, that their circulation will b
large enough to pay better. Thes
short-sighted publishers thus decid
that there is large majority of CENT
LOVING skinfints in the community.
A real good county paper is a min
Of wealth to the county in which it
located. 1t gives responsibility to tn
people by its appearance; it gives lif
and energy to business by its bringin
before the public in suitable and sen
I sible way, the advantages of the count
I for Agriculture, for machinery, 70
manufacturing, DC. In this way
good county paper adds to every man
I farm hundreds of dollars, and yet tina
farmer will go sneaking into the print
9 ing Office to get that paperfor one do
. lar; and on failure, send. to the city 70
t one. All the harm | wish such a spin
itless soul, is that he may live in
country where there is no paper, Q
| where the editor has not talent nor en-
tcrprise enough 10 make his paper de
| sirable, except on the ground that IT /
CHEAP.
/ never expect to have any thin
!, more to with the Press, as editor G
: publisher, but expect to estimate pa
, pers and editors about as they estimat
themselves. We never expect any
thing new or interesting in dollar pa
: per. Reading one, to US, appears lik
eating at the second table. And W
hope all sensible publishers will stan
up to fair price. or all retire and Il
Jackasses have the field in their glory
Yours, &C.,
CT. GARRISON.
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