Meigs County telegraph. [volume] (Pomeroy [Ohio]) 1848-1859, 1858-12-14
A word to our Friends.

1t is now nearly year since we tool
charge Of this paper. 1t has been yeal
of great pressure and embarrassment tc
business men generally, and the farmer
and mechanic have, in their measure, felt
the effects of the hard times. Fully real
izing this state of things, we have not
dunned our subscribers. believing that as
soon as convenient they would pay up
Very many are in arrears. Our terms are
$3.50 in advance, or So 90 if paid within
the year, and $3.50 if not paid until the
expiration of the year. If we depended
at all on the income of the office for sup
port, we would be compelled to exact these
terms Gas we have a perfect legal and
moral right to do) or stop the paper. AS
we do not, however, depend on the income
of the Office for any part of our living, we
do not intend to be very rigid with our
subscribers, and if those who are in ar
years will make it convenient to pay up
soon, we will exact nothing beyond our
advance terms. This proposition ought
to be appreciated, and we hope our books
at the commencement of the new year viii
show that it is.
We have not bored our readers with
personal matters, but think brief state
ment of the condition of the Telegraph
not out of place at this time. We invested
in it, one year ago, $1,000. We have
devoted to it a considerable portion of our
time during the year. For this invest
meut, on which we pay tax, and for this
labor, we have not received cent in re-
turn. We have, in addition, advanced
1926 from other resources, to support the
paper. So you see it has not been very
profitable business as yet.
1t may be asked, then, why publish it
at all? Well, for several reasons. First:
A paper is needed in the county, and if
that need is supplied, somebody must do
it, and the lot seemed to fall upon U.s.
Second: Our time was not so fully en-
ployed in our other business. but that,
with closer application, we could edit the
Telegraph in addition, and do it gratuit-
ously, if necessary, thus sustaining the
paper. which otherwise, perhaps. would
not have been continued. Third: We
believed that good paper would be pat
ronized, and that, eventually, an estab-
lishment could be built up that would pay,
and at the same time be the means of great
good to the community. We believe SO
still. And in proof of our faith, we in
tend, in the spring, to erect a building ex
pressly for the business, and supply it with
all the appliances Of complete printing
Office, when we will be prepared to do all
kinds of work in the best city styles and
at less than city prices.
We don't, therefore, appeal to the SYM
pat hies of our readers. We can't, in pa
thetic strains, beg them to pay us, in or
der to enable us to pay our debts, for aOe
don't o,Oe anybody, and don't mean to-
But we ask them to pay because it is just,
honest and manly to do so. And we ask
them to aid in extending the circulation of
the Telegraph, because we believe it is
worthy of it, and that the wider it is cir
culated the more good it will accomplish.
Our list has been slowly but regularly
increasing, and is now more than two hun
ared larger than it was year ago. 1t
ought to be doubled, and we believe it will
be in time. Are there not many who
could aid by showing their copy to their
neighbors and asking them to subscribe?
Please try it. .,1.