Preble County Democrat. [volume] (Eaton, Ohio) 1857-1859, 1858-07-08
From tie Dcfnmce Republican
How to Sustain your County
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From the Dctfrtnce Republican
How to Sustain your County
t Paper. 49,
l. Lay aside your fears that the Edi-
tors will get rich faster than his neigh
bors. We have never heard of a man
making more than decent diving by a
publication of county newspaper, even
if he had ever such goodsbusiness.-
A case in point is an acqusntance of
ours, who has been publishih hg some six
or seven years, has had all the business
of his own town and County, and a
large port on of that of the surround
ings; but with all this he gets into rs
tight pinches for money to buy his white
paper with as any other publisher with
whom we are acquainted. &E" 1a.--''
2 IF the paper agrees With your way
of thinking in politics, subscribe and
pay for it, and persuade ybur neigh
bors of the same mind to go and do
likewise" Do not tell the editor to
send you his paper, without paying,
and when you get to owe two or three
dollars tell your friends who speak ofit
that the paper is of no account-that it
will burst up some of these days. The
way, under such state of the case, to
keep paper from bursting up" is for
each subscriber to keep the editors
books free from charges against him
self. Once we had to chose, and on
posting up found we had backed and
outstanding some $500 more than we
had capital invested. This thing ofap-
plying the credit system to the hewspa
per business may be likenedto the far.
mcr selling out his crop, a bushel to the
man. The sum each owes for the bush
cl does not seem of any account ito the
debtor, but the aggregate of these ush
els may make or break the poor deliver
in the soil. +a,"' -;
3. If you have a father; m other,
brother, sister, or friend of any Kind,
residing at distance, and are able. sub
scribe, pay for and send them a copy.
4. fyou have any printing you wish
done, do not '.jew" the editor down to
a starvation price, and when he comes
to make purehse of you t'spike on
the tariff
5. If you have any advertising or job
work to be done, take it to the paper of
your political faith. except, perhaps you
may wish to advertise in more than one
paper.
e Do not run off to tho. q y --ta-ect
your bandtiills, labels, cards, &c., brin-
ted, because forsooth, you can get re
duction of few cents in price. Sup
port your own as you weuld wish to be
supported" y man who is always run
ming away from home with his business
little deserves the patronage of the COM
munity in which he lives; and, as far as
we arc. concerned, such will receive
''the cold shoulder : -"-
Z. II you hade the control of any le-
gal advertising, send it to your political
friend. This kind of business pays
better than any other, and the more
you can send to the editor of your pa
per, the better for him and it. In pro-
portion to the amount of receipts ofa pa
yer, is an editor enabled TO make it use
full, amuscing and entertaining to the
community in which it is published.
s. Do not expect much Of q paper,
when an editor is dtiven to be his own
cong positor, proofreader, ptessman and
devil, and thus to run all over town
every forenoon in the vain search tor a
quarter to buy soWething for his diu-
ner.
8. Do not expect the editor to make
honorable mention of you or your busl-
ness every few weeks, for nothing
The space in a paper, and mans time
iarc worth something and every notice
comes back to the recipient in dollars
and cents. An editor should not be al
lowed to go hungry, barebacked oil
barefooted. They eat drink and wea,
just like other people"
10. If the editor owes you shilling
do not chase him from ''rosy morn til
balmy eve'' for it and when you get thu
balanc on the other side, ''cut the gen
tleman's acquaintance. "
IL. FINALLY, my brethren, if yo'
=, wish to proberly sustain your paper, t
live the balance Of yenr days in peace
with God and man, and oscupp sea
in paradise after death, pr,.stice tn
Golden Rule-"Do untn others as yo
would wish they would do unto you,
under like circumstances. .s.