Kenosha tribune & telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1856-1859, 1857-01-01
Country Newspapers.

! Cost OF ENGLISH HAPERS.-1ne LOns
don newsmen furnish the Times or Post
on the day of publication for 5,75 quar-
ter. For the Herald $3.50 quarter is
charged. The second edition of the
London Times, Sun, Globe, or Standard,
| is furnished at 81, 80 quarter, or $50 a
year. Copies of the Times one day old,
are furnished at 81 a quarter, so that the
difference in thecostin England between
paper of the latest edition on the day
Republication, or the day nextsuceeding,
is equal to the subscription price of the
largest commercial newspapers of the
United States. A file of the London
Times taken in this country costs about
$50 year, or nearly seventeen cents for
each copy of the paper. The English
papers are conducted on the cash system
exclusively. They have no subscribers,
but are furnished to newsmen by the
ream, who supply sspatrons" in the city
and country districts.--Ercta,ge
The difference between the cash and
the credit systems in the newspaper bus
iness is probably full 33-l-2 per cent
| This difference constitutes in America
failure or success in journalistic enter
prises-in most instances.
So closely is the economy of the Lon
don newspaper applied, that the leading
editor of the Times has to pay for every
number that he takes for his own read
ing. The ''dead-heading," so universal
about the American Press, is wholly un-
known in London. The gratuitous use
of a journals advertising columns, is al
so an unknown and unpractised thing
about the great Times establishment, or
any other successful paper in Britain.
The immense population of London
has long enabled its Press to dispense
with the trouble, cost and waste of a
subscription list. The readers of an
American Metropolitan Journal are scat
tered over half continent, and have to
be served by mall
fNew York city enjoyed the politi-
cal advan-a age which London derives
from being the residence of the Royal
Family; fit was the political capital of
he Empire State, in addition to being
The Trade Emporium of the country,
some one of its journals might attain to
the dignity and power ofthe'Thunderer.'
Fortunately for the politics of Democ-
racy, this relation Of q controlling Me-
cropolitan Press can neverbe established
over the country papers of New York.
Their independence and their measure
Of power, are assured to them by the in
terposition of political capital, one hun
dred and fifty miles away from the Mon
led Capital of the Nation as well as Of
the State.
Two things can strengthen this assur-
ance. The employment of talent and
the investment Of money, in making the
country papers all that their readers will
want The very best field of labor for
chem all, is their own immediate locali-
ties. A thorough cleaning of this ground
for news, and steady conduct of the
papers with reference to the desires,
needs and tastes of their immediate cir
Gle of readers, will make them indispen-
sable at home and valuable at home.--
Time and a true economy will bring
another assurance Of freedom to the In
terror Press, in the growth of Trade
Centre i'll the interior of the States.-
These will aggregate wealth and popu-
lation, which will constitute stronghods
against the conquest over public senti-
ment by Metropolitan journals.
We have insensibly rambled from a
paragraph into an article-but we will
not leave the subject upon this its TIRES
hold, without remarking that we consid-
er it matter of the highest political and
social consequence that the Country
Newspapers of the State of New York
should be strengthened and maintained.
1t will be an evil day in the history of
our civilization when an aggrandized
City Press brushes out the rural journals
if that day shall ever come. The We
ry best thought, the very wisest impulses,
Of the great municipal hotbeds, where
millions ofevery grade and temper chate
daily together, cannot protitably be ia
ken at the fire-sdes of our farm-houses
in exchange for the pure spirit and sim
pie wisdom of rural Democracy.-Aibd-
M Zee Journal.