The north Iowa times. [volume] (M'Gregor [i.e. McGregor], Iowa) 1856-1857, 1857-07-03
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we uNe A.eQuSHI apPii'a'ioHo III Ia.
changcs'' hich we romptly reject. Many of
the q, e.s scnt are of no use to us, and we are
modest enough to think that ours is equally as
useless to them. Under these circumstances
what sense is there in going through the cour-
tesy Of an Elk. that is valuelcss to both Iar-
ties? 4..... --.....
VIC are net influenced in this matter by the
size of contemporary, for We know that many
jou nails mu,h smaller than ours, are got up
more a.tistically, edited more ably and really
contain more reading matter nor is q differ nee
in lolitics made q cause Of refusal, many of the
best ne,rs papers Of the United States being
anti -dcmocratic hut what publisher desires en-
exchange with an Office whose issue is suffered
to lie in its wra, per and sold to any Ierson de-
string waste par er at IS cents per hundred p
That this is the case with many newspapers at
our large offcs We know, because no one or
two men can o. en- and wade through the col
umns of dai'y arrival of " hat is equivalent TO
halfbushcl OF closely packed matter! hence,
many of them are thrown aside or sold for a
SOM" and tn: bore c, ntiEuee, because it is
Customary. .na 81. a#
We belieye this ndos tr;ne of Exchanges Is
carried SO far as to become q sublime humbug.
The mails are loaded both ways with tons Of
spoiled PAPER" that could as well be sold 10
actual bscribers or given to readers as to be
wasted in unmeanins and useless courtesies be-
tween Editors. To Illustrate OF what earth
ly use to us is an exchange with the "Slab.own
B1gle" published in tie inc district of North
|ern Maine Whatever tanspilcs there of a
local character, if important, is transfe red to
their city journals with whom the fugle gets
Ian exchange upcn consideration that it furnishes
the city journal with country items } ard We
get it all t'nou7 Ii the columns of East. IN OF
Wet I'm City exchanges for VIII ch we pay in
lpat fishing pros ccf 1--WE hate the common ter.
limitation Of this worry or frequent notices.
Pin tile same way our local news is carried ia
Maire and tie flow of inte'lie ence is rs com
Iiete, as though we had all the CONT papers
Of that State. There are localit es in our own
state which are 50 far away from or commercial
or social interests as to render their Iaptrs OF
no value to us. and at the same time we know
ours can be no more valuable to them-in such
cas- 8. why not quit the folly Of 70 ms and less 4
the burthens of the mail service? We heard
one country editor boast of having one hundred
and trenty exchanges, and from brief exami
natisn of his pile we came to the conclusion
that lie opened less than half of thtm. y.
We have 6 monthly, II weekly and 10 daily
and tri-week.y exchanges; these AVERAGE about
RI per day to look over, and Unless We chang
Tour mind. we intend to keep our list there o.
thereaEouts We have erased frcm cur books
or refused to record the names Of papers q
much higher Irctensions than the Times, anc
we will be obliged to any contemporary to serv.
us precisely the same way whenever this shec
is thongLtto be too insipid for CO.. =. reference
or rerasal. Drop rs and we'll take the Lint
and if We drop you please attribute it to ON
consciousness OF being una'le by simple Eek
change to balance the favor you extend us
we will never complain in the one case yo,
should be too p oud 10 whine in the other.
There is a class of Newspapers undcservinl
Eany favo--.hese are made exclusively will
scissors. the only original mater being lcadce
notice of some patent medicine. If thc,
should be anything else claiming originality i
contains 90 little Editorial oxygen that the mum
) Der in mich it is published would not answe
| Ithe pr ose Of frc.kindler!
IL this Article is tout of ORDER our bretbrc,
of the frcss will please give US genteel sco.d
ing. 4-