The River Falls journal. (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1857-1861, 1857-07-22
Editorial Convention.

The State Editorial Convention recently
assembled at Portage City, passed Sc
RES of resolutions, of which the following
are portion. We give Thorn our hearty
approval:
WHEREAS, the rates of legal advertising
as fixed by law, are lower in this State
than in many of the other States of the
Union, and whereas, there has been a
large increase, not only in the price OF
food and all the necessaries of life, but in
paper and other materials used in printing
Offices, as well as in the wages of compost
tors, since those rates were established.
Resolyed, That there should be some
corresponding increase in the rates of adj
vertising and job work, and to contribute
to this end, it is in the opinion of this
convention, the duty of the Legislature to
pass an act increasing the rates of legal
advertising and county printing, as fol-
lows:
1. For all legal advertising-75 cents
per folio for the first insertion, and S7t
cents for each subsequent insertion.
2. For advertising Treasurer's list of
delinquent taxes, Is cents for each des-
cription.
8. For advertising list of the Clerk of
the Board of Supervisors, 80 cents for
each description.
Reso1ued, Further, that all general laws
passed BY the Legislature, should be pub
lished and laid before the people as gener-
ally as is possible, Immediately after the
close of the session, during which they
were enacted, and that the cheapest and
most effectual mode of accomplishing this
end, would be by the passage of an act
providing for the publication of all such
laws in every newspaper published in the
State, at q cost to the State of not more
than fifty dollars to each newspaper for
such publication.
Resolved, That the practice Of sending
newspapersto subscribers indiscriminately,
without payment an advonce, is impolitic
and highly detrimental to the prosperity
of the Press, and that it ought at once,
and forever to be abandoned without an
exception, and that this association ur-
gently request all the publishers in the
State, to adopt system of advance pay
ment on each and every subscription, to
90 into effect on or before the first OF
January next.
RESOLVED, That all transient advertising
should be paid for in advance, and that
we recommend the adoption of this sys-
TEN, by the entire Free Press.
Resolred, That the employment Of
abusive personalities by members of the
editorial profession is derogatory and de-
moralizing, is destructive to the influences
of the Press with the public, and ought
to be discountenanced.
Resolved, That we approve of the sys.
tenn adopted by Railroad Companies. o.
cutting off "Dead Heads" but that we
protest against the term being applied tc
our brethren of the local press; and thai
we consider it short-sighted policy on the
part of the companies, in a young State
like ours, of cutting off those whose bust
ness it is to make knomn the wants and
resources of a country whose growth and
development, to q great extent, govern the
success and prosperity of Railroads them
selves.
Resolped That the fraternity be recon-
mendod to discontinue and discountenancC
tho practice of gratuitous putting in gen
eral, and particularly to exclude from thei
columns all puffs of patent or quack medi
cines.