The Wyandot pioneer. (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1853-1868, 1857-12-03
How to sustain your County Paper.

! /. Lay aside your fears that the edit
or will get rich faster than his ncighbors
We have never heard Of man maxim,
more than decent living by the publici
ton OF a country Newspaper, even if b
had ever such a good business. A cas-
in point is an acquaintance Of ours, VIII
had been publishing some six or sever
years, has had all the business Of hi
own town and county. and large por
ton Of that Of the surroundings; but will
all this be gets in as tight pinches fo
money to buy his white paper as any
other publisher with whom we are &C
quainted.
2. If the paper agrees with your way
way of thinking in politics. subscribe ane
pay for it, and persuade your neighbor'
Of like mind to $50 and do likewise. -
Do not tell the editor TO send you his pa
per, without paying, and when you ge
to owe two or three dollars tell your
friends who speak Of it that the paper is o
no account-that it will burst up some o
these days. The way. under such a
state Of the case, to keep paper from
bursting up" is for each subscriber to
keep the editors books free from charges
against himself, Once we had to close,
and, on posting up, found that we had
booked an outstanding some $500 more
than we had capital invested. This
thing of applying the credit system to
the newspaper business may be likened
to farmer selling out his crop, busheI
to man. The sum each owes for the
bushel does not seem of any account to
the debtor, but the aggregate of these
bushels may make or break the poor del
yer in the soil.
3. If you have father, mother, sister,
brother or friend ofany kind. residing a t
distance, and are able, subscribe pay
for and send them q copy.
4. Ifyou have printing you wish dcne,
do not "jew" the editor down to a starv-
alton price, and when be comes to make
purchase Of you "spke on the tar
iff."
S. If you have any advertising or job
work &. be done, take it to the paper Of
your political faith, except, perhaps, you
may wish TO advertise in more than one
paper.
6. Do not run off to the oity to get
your handbills, labels, cards. &C., print
ed, because, forsooth, you can get re-
duction Of a few cents in price. "Sup-
port your own as you would wish to be
A man who is always run
ming away from home with his business,
little deserves the patronage o! the COM
munity in which he lives; and. as far as
we are concerned, such will receive "tbe
,old shoulder"
7. If you have the control Of any le-
gal advertising, send it to your political
friend. This kind of business pays bet
Ter than any other, and the more you
,an send to the editor Of your puper, the
better for him and it. In proportion to
The amount Of receipts Of apaper, is an
editor enabled to make it useful, anu
sing and entertaining to the community
IN which it is published.
8. Do not expect much Of paper,
when an editor is driven to be his own
proof reader, pressman and
devil, and has 70 run all over town eve
y forenoon in the vain search for guar.
er' to buy something for bis dinner.
9. Do not expect the editor to make
honorable mention Of you oil your busin-
,ss every few weeks for nothing. The
gace in paper and mans time are
worth something, and every notice comes
,ack to the drawer Of the recipient in dol
ars AMI cents. An editor should not be
llowed to go hungry, ,barebacked or bare
ootsd. They "eat, drink and wear just
ike other people,"
10. Ifthe editor owes you shilling. do
lot chase him from rosy morn TO balmly
We" for it, and when you happen to get
he balance on the other side, "cut the
,entleman's acquaintance"
10. "Fiua)ly, my brethren" II you
Vish to properly sustain your county pa
yer. to live the balance Of your days in
'eace with God and man, and occupy
eat in Paradise after death, practice the
Golden Rule" Do unto others as you