Weekly North Carolina standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1850-1858, 1854-11-22
BJTSINESS AFFAIRS.

Tho nrcsent high prices paid workmen and for
r,cras as we'll as for all means of living, render
INDISPENSABLE that publishers newspapers should
ho more strict than heretofore in their collections,
ard sloud also insist on something like fair return
from their advertising columns.
We have been advertising by the year at rery loo
r,,es and VIC have found it almost impossible, un-
dor the rule which has governed US, to do justice to
or Advertising patrons all round, inasmuch as some
of ,be yearly advertisers will insist on occupying
0urb more space than that to which they are entitl-
81 fins crowding others who arc content with less,
and interfering with transient CUSTOM which is most
nr,f;abe. We have determined hereafter to adopt
= new plan, which vii! be seen by reference to our
FERNS above We will take contracts for SIX months
or BY the year. the advertiser being charged at the
rrguar rates for all that he inserts, and we deduct
as, at the close OF the contract thirty three and
third per cent from the gross amount. In this way
the advertiser may insert as little large guam
tty as he dcsires-nay renew his advertisement as
c;cn as he chooses, and pay accordingly.
Our large and rapidly increasing circulation rem
dcrs the Standard an advantageous vehicle to busl-
NESS men for communicating with the public.
We have been annually paying from three hun
dred to five hundred dollars in commissions to col
lectorS; and there arc many thousands Of dollars
still due lis on our books up the lSt of this month.
A these commissions might be saved to us, if
subscribers would transmit the amounts due by
msl. We do not see why they may not do it. 1t
not necessary that subscriber should wait fer a
collector, or for his account to be sent him in his
paper; if he knows he is indebted to the establish
ment, let him at once forward one, two, three,
four, five or ten dollar bill as the case may be- and
he may rely being promptly credited and receipt
ed for the amount; and the receipt will show the
tine paid for and to. We expect soon to adopt the
plan of notifying each subscriber by printed slip
encos ID in his paper of the time when his year will
EXPIRE so as to enable him to renew, if he chooses
to do So at the advance prices of 81 and 81.
Again: We are frequently requested to deviate
from our rules and receive 81 for 81 so, and some
times for s., or 81 when 81 so or S. is due. We
say, most respectfully, we cannot do this. We
have our reasons for it. They are good ones, and
We doubt not they would be regarded SO by all our
subscribers if We deemed it necessary to state or
NA."h tucH 1T leilootu IueH ds,tin, d SupSCiioe'
threatens to stop his paper, if do no: agree thus
to depart from our rules and some do stop on that
account We regret this, and would rather lose
ayears subscription now and then than to appear
even to give the slightest cause of offence to broth
er erDemoerat; but we cannot pay regard to threats
Or allow ourselves to be disturbed by orders, based
On such grounds, for discontinuing the paper. A
vast majority of our subscribers however-and we
OeeVe we have the very best list in the State-are
liberal and cheerful, though some of them are slow
payers. We are not dun.ing, nor do we intend te
90 So We ask our friends, however, to think o
'Aese things; and to remember what we now tel
'Aem that there localities in the State ir
which our subscription list is dead loss, and WI
continue nevertheless to send the paper; and tina
our annual loss (by bad debts and the lke) on sub
Ssflstlons is not less than one thousand dollars.