The Abbeville banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1847-1869, 1856-01-03
wha. Newspaper Docs for Nothing.

What Newspaper Docs for Nothing.
The following article should be read and
pondcred well by every man who takes a
newspaper without paying for it in adj
vance:
The result of my observation enables me
to state us fact, that publishers of news
papers arc more poorly rewarded than any
class of men i'll the United States, who in
vest an equal amount of labor, capital and
thought. They are cxpested to do more
service for less pay, to stand more sponging
and "dead heading," to puff and defend
more people without fec or hope of reward,
than any other class.
They credit wider and longer get oftencr
cheated; suffer more pecuniary loss and
are ottener the victims Of misplaced conf
dence, than any other calling in the COM
munty. People pay aprinter's bill more
reluctantly than any other. 1t goes harder
with them to eXpcnd Il dollar on a valua-
ble newspaper, than ten on a needless gew-
gaw, yet everybody avails himself of the
use of the editors pen, and printers ink
How many professional and political repu-
tations and fortunes have been made
and sustained Ly the friendly though un-
requted pen of the ed;tor' How many en-
e:yo towns and cities have been brought
into notice, and putFel into prosperity by
the press? How many railroads, now in
successful operation, would have founlcred
but for the assistance Of the lever that
moves the world;' in short, what branch
of American industry, or activity, has not
been promoted, stimulated and defended hy
the press And who las rendered it more
than miserable pittapce for its mighty SER
vices? The bazaars of fashion, and the
hannts of appetite and dissipation, are
tlironged with an eager crowd, bearing
gold in their palms, and the commodities
there vended are sold at enormous
profits, though irtri;sically worthless, and
paid for with scrupulous punctuaity while
the counting room of the newspaper is the
seat of jewing, cheapening, trade, orders
and pennies. 1t IS made point of honor
TO liquidate grog Jill, but not of dishonor
to repudiate printers bill.
Inferest.-Rcverend II. w. Beecher, in
his last letter to the New York Indepen-
dent, thus gives his. opinion on farming
upon borrowed capital:, "No blister draws
sharper than interest does. OF all indus
tries none is comparable to interest. It
works day and night, in fair weather and
in foul. 1t has no sound in its footsteps
but travels fast. 1t gnaws at mans sub
stance with invisible teeth. 1t binds indus
try with its film, as fly is bound upon
spiders web. Debt rolls man over and
over, binding him hand and foot, and let.
ting him hang upon the fatal mesh until
the long legged interest devours him.
There is no crop that can afford to pay in
terest money of farm. There is but one
thing raised on farm like it, and that is
the Canadian thistle, which swarms new
plants every time you break its roots, whose
blossoms are prolific, and every flower the
father Of a million seeds. Every leaf Is an
Iawl, every branch q spear, and every single.
plant is like a platoonlof bayonets, and
field full Of them IS like nm armed host
The whole plant: is a torment and a ,ege-
table curse. And yet,a farmer had better,
make abed Of Canada tlIistles, than at;