Daily Nashville patriot. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1857-1858, 1857-01-28
Prom the M.mphi. Morning Bulstin.


at par. e have not three dollars in my pocket
Just now, but will send you the money soon. 81
The Bulletin is quite stranger in these diggns,"
but shall try to introduce him TO some of my
neighbors and friends in "0ld Williamson"
Yours, --
We have been rather DESTROYS than other
wise for the occasion to preach short sermon
or our cash system of subscription, and as the
foregoing affords Us an appropriate text, we
avail ourselves of II. We shall divide it into
an Exordium or preface, and then treat the
subject under the Three Heads marked with
numerals in. our corresI ondent's letter.
Publishing daily newspaper,
nowadays, and keeping a large printing es-
tablishment in full blast, is an erpensirs o. a,
ton. Ii takes money, and good deal Of it,
not promises of money, bat money compliant,
as the French say, or cash dOWn, as we say n
| English. Thus, little as many may Imagine
| the fact 10 be, it requires of this very neecful
article, something IN the neighbOrhOod of a.
bove thirty thousand dollars per annum, TO
keep the little Bulletin a-going. There was
an idea once, which obtained considerable curr
rency in the world, that tyre-setters, press
men, roer-boys, and printers dew Is" could
live on air. But that idea is exploded; and
now, it is.very well understood that these sen
nullldu UCliEN duu Idlill4l6b LUe1
ha0e families, just like other people, are un-
der the common necessity to settle with the
baker, the butcher, aud the grocer, with the
wherewithal their weekly bills provide. And
these weekly bills-this paying up on Satur-
day night, is what the publishers has to see TO-.
Where is the money to come from9 1t does
not fall at bis feet out of the sky-at least we
have never heard or read of such an extraor-
binary phenomenon-but must be derived from
the customers Of the concern-the subscrip>
tons, advertisements aud job-wOrk. So much
being promised, the congregation is prepared
for the elucidation of
HEADQ) Don't be uneasy about the subscrip-
ton money"
This is a very delusive way of looking at the
subject. It has been a deluson and snare to
many newspaper publisher, who counting
up immense sums upon his books, dreamed him.
self growing rich, until the stoppage of credit
| by the paper maker woke him up the reality
| that lie had been 'working for nothing and
| finding himself" Let ds test this talacy,
Don't be uneasy" suppose our Secretary aud
| Treasurer should say, of Saturday afternoon,
| to the thirty odd human souls who keep com
pany with the flesh through the instrumental
| ity of their weekly earnings, punctually paid
! at his desk: Gentlemen, don't be uneasy n
! Suppose this to 20 on from week to week, and
| month to month, and they could find it in their
! capabilities of endurance not to be uneasy
| how long would it take them to present the
| appearance of starved ghosts, instead of the
sleek, well fed, intelligent, gentlemanly "Bul-
| letin Boys" they now area ANSWER Us that,
| Master Brook !"
HEAD (2) 81 am good for my debts, and my
notes are always taken at par"
| SO is the Bulletin good for its debts, and so
are its notes at par II is So purely and simply,
and only because it set out upon, aud inexora-
| bly, maintains, the cash system. Our correspOn>
dent made himself so, precisely upon the same
| notwithstanding without the tax which Gre
dit always has to pay, and realizing the price
Of what he may have to sell. Neither be nor
| the Bulletin, however, could long continue
solvent, if \ directly contrary system OF BUSH
ness was adopted.
HEAD (3) 81 have not three dollars in may peck
ct just now, but will send the money to you soon.
That's another delusive way of looking at
the subject. Let Us test it again. Suppose
Bulletin Company to be owing its neigh6Ors
of the Union Bank, across the street, three
dollars for the use of that amount of its ''cir~
culation,n and the time bad expired-the last
ebay OF grace"-and we should send bilet~
doux across to the Cashier, of the same tenor
with the oregoing-wouldn't it be funny if he
was content herewith The usage don't hap
pen 20 be that way ! The custom is, for the
individual to "shin round" and get it, or have
his rations stopped. And it is right it should
| he so; for it is easier for the individual to do
this in his own case, than it would be for the
Bank to look after the numerous debts that
are owing TO 1t, aud whose punctual payment
is necessary to the redemption of its Obliga-
tons, Just so with our 'circulation." Upon
the punctual payment of the multitudinous
small sums of which the newspaper business is
made Up, depends cur prosperity. We pay
them out in large sums-tor paper, for fuel,
for house-rent, etc. If one may relax tie
rule, all may. Now which is easiest, which
most reasonable, that the individual subscriber
who does not happen 10 have the price of sub.
scriplion in his pocket at the moment, should
"shin round" and get it at the proper time, or
that the publisher should be under the necessi-
ty of undertaking the same delectable euter>
prise, for one thousand times larger AMOUNT
Answer US that too, Master Brooks while
we sum up with few
CLOSING REMARKS We are quite sure that
none in the congregation of constant readers
OF the Bulletin, will understand from the fore
going that, in the enforcement of the rule, we
distTUst their ability, or willingness, personal
ly, TO pay. Indeed, ii has so happened, that
among those who have failed to get the paper
under the rule we have established, there
have been a number Of the most subs
stantal aud punctual men in the cOun-
try and the very warmest Of our personal
friends. The fault has always been with pub
fishers themselves, in sending out their journal
after the time paid for-frequently when the
persons 10 whom they are sent do not really
wish IL, and continue to receive il from SEN
timent Of delicacy in not ordering il to be
stopped. The system is wrong. No one ought
To be put to the alternative of taking paper
he does not want, or if going to the nngraci-
Gus trouble of telling the editor he does not
like his labors; nor can any publisher afford TO
extend the credit system unless he has larger
capital 10 waste, than any with whom We have
had the good fortune to be acquainted. We
say t0dste-fOr, with the best and most solvent
subscription list that ever existed, there is
in the casualties of death aud removal alone,
with the expense, delay aud uncertainty OF
collecting small sums at distant points, die
ference Of fnl forty per eeHtRm-between the
fruits Of the cash ana the credit system. Thus
far, our experience Is, that the readers OK this
paper approve and prefer the rule we have
adopted. Thus fortified, aud with the backing
of our contemporaries, ali, or nearly all OF
whom have come into it, we shall most GER
taiuiy adhere to il.
Our Naturalization system.