Bradford reporter. [volume] (Towanda, Pa.) 1844-1884, 1854-12-16
Our New Terms.

IteLi0ty udheled 10.
Our New Terms.
We have gel to find The iir5t subscriber, who is
not pleased with our new terms During the pres.
en term of Court, we have had an opportunity of
learning personally from many OF our oldest and
best pahons, their opinions, and in every case
has been highly satisfactory, needs 10 Argument
10 convince a.subscber lrh0 intends TO p7y FIR his
paper punciually, that it is cheaper for him 10 pay
One Colldr in advance, rather than One Dollar and
hatoI Iwo Dollars, according 10 The length OF
lime which payment is delayed. For our part We
will be better for US than The old prices, with their
| inevitable delays and bad deb:s
M"ny Of our subscribers who are in arrears have
promptly paid up, and taken advantage OF the re-
dncilon. We Iusllhat the remainder W I'll speedily
do so. They can avail themselves of our new
terms at any lime, BY paying arearages. We have
many subscribers who are owing US from one 10
ten years subscription. II their accounts are no,
attended to, by the first of June next, we shall be
compelled 10 part company with Them. We Ius
! there is not one OF the number who is not willing
TO do US justice, by paying what we have waited
| for, SO long aud so patiently.
Very many OF the Country papers are adopting
The Ready-Pay system. Indeed, they will all be
forced 10 do so, be " crushed out" by The CITY
Weeklies. Under The cselit system the country
press, The cash tor newspapers goes TO the city and
Ihe promises are all the country printers have to
live upon. The incubus which hangs upon all
the Country papers, like The Old Man upon the back
OF Snbad, Is Tie papers they Issue Tor which they
never set pay, and The ardiness of many OF The
very ablesI OF their subscribers II they could have
their pay promptly Tor their labor, hey would be
enabled to give such lime and expense 10 their pa.
pers, as would render them more worthy of pa
uonage. Having seen The operation OF this never
gel.your pay system for The last fifteen years we
are convinced that no newspaper ever did, or
would thrive as it should, under lis operation We
are determined 10 have our pay for every PAPER we
issue, and il il leaves Us bul one hundred sub.cri
bers we w!l Ell !eavor to give Them the full worth
oGtheir money.
We have often in the course Of our type and-ink
career, heard The surprise expressed why a paper
could moi be printed in the county as chap as 10 The
city. Such surmise may perhaps be natural in
those who are in no degree acquainted with he
| m0duS 0perandi We will take the oi The Phil.
adelphia D5ilr Newspapef as Illustration. This
is paper which finds its way into many families
IN Bradford County, is very readable paper, and
is furnished al very extraordinary low prices The
propEeIors O! that paper are also the pdbshets OF
a daily newspaper, called the Ledger which is sold
for one cent This price OF course, does no, pay
Tor The labor expended upon eaca issae, though
lis circulation is so 600 daily; but il is filled with
advertisements, which make up the deficit and af-
ford handsome fortune. The reading mailer con-
laned in The Ledger is laken' every week to make
up the Dolr Newspaper, requiring tur Iiule if any
alteration. The establishment OF course has large
| number OF steam presses, which are as much ex-
pense or nearly So, idle, as running. Ii will be
readily seen that The only Item of expense, of any
importance, in issuing hat newspaper, is he cost
OF paper.
1t must DC remembered, that while We have bul
a single County TO depend upon, that paper has
The whole continent iof lis fell. With an immense
c'Ecuallon,it requires bot very small profit
each paper to make an immense income The
pEoprie oIs Of the Dollar Newspaper can afford 10
furnish heir paper al The price each sheet o whie
paper cos's US and yet make princey fortunes Our
readers will observe al once, why such Thing as
competing with The city press cannot for a moment
be'eneFaineI. Bat fortunately for Us poor printers,
The city paper does not supply the wants OF our in
habitans. There are local matters of The ulmosl
Importance, which they can only obtain through
their coun'y paper The belIer lha, is palronized
The more able it will be'o minister 10 heir wants
10 gather up and report, The fIcts and occurrences
which are interesting.
In This light we trust thai every subscriber will
promptly do his own duty, AM when done, it will
not require any great amount OF time or exer,ion,
for him 10 procure The name OF some neighbor and
send il 10 us, accompanied by the money.
The following is The evidence OF some Of our
contemporaries who have adopted the advance paw.
menl sys'em:-
We observe that many OF our country exchanges
are adopting the advance pay system, and we hope
II will soon be the only practced 1t is an in.
variable rule with those city papers that the coun
try press has to compete with and is the m ain Sc
cret of their success in crushing out" the latter
they have no bad debts to lose, nor good ones 10 be
swallowed up in the expense Of collection. The old
system Of credit and two or three prices for
newspaper, (according TO the time payment in made)
is miserable one, and the sooner it is wholly done
away with, the better it will be for all parties The