The Hancock Jeffersonian. [volume] (Findlay, Ohio) 1857-1870, 1859-04-15
How to support the County Paper.

'AO" ~ SuPfoht hc Souhtt EdpcF.
Lay aside your fears that the
Editor will get rich faster than his
neighbors. We have never heard of
man making more than a decent
living by the publication of country
newspaper, even il he had ever such
good business. A case in point is
an acquaintance OF ours, who has
been publishing some six or seven
years, has had all the business of bis
own town and county. and large
portion OF that of the surrounding;
but with all this he gets into tight
pinches for money to buy his white
paper with, as any other Publisher
with whom we are acquainted.
2-lf the paper sgrees with your
ways Of thinking, subscribe and pay
for it, and persuade your neighbors
OF the same mind to "go and do like.
WISE" Do not tell the Editor 70
send your paper, without paying,
and when you get to owe two or
three dollars, tell your frierds who
speak Of it, that the paper is of no
account, that it will burst up one of
these days. The way, under such a
state Of the case, to keep a paper
fom bursting up" is for each sub
scriber to keep the Editors books
free from charges against himself
Once we had to close, and on post.
ing up. found we had booked and
outstanding some $4,000 more than
we had capital invested. This thing
of applying the credit system to the
newspaper business may be likened
to Farmer selling out his crop, q
hushel to the man. The sum each
owes for the bushel does not seem OF
any account to the debtor, but the
aggregate Of these bushels may
make or brake the poor deliver in the
soil.
3-Ii you have a father, mother,
brother, sister. or friend OF any kind
residing at a distance, and are able,
subscribe, pay for, and send them o
copy.
5-If you have any advertising or
job work to be done. take it to your
county paper, except, perhaps, you
may wish to advertise in more than
one paper. In proportion to the
amount of the receipts OF paper, ID
an Editor enabled to make it useful,
amusing and entertaining to the
community in which it is published.
6-Do not run off to the city to
get your hand-bills, labels, cards,
&c., printed, because forsooth. you
can get a reduction Of a few cents in
price. A man who is always run
ming away from home with his
business, little deserves the patron.
age OF the community ia which be
lives; and, as far as we are concern
ed. such will receive the "cold
shoulder"
7-Do not expect much Of q pa
per when an Editor 10 driven to be
his own compositor, proof. reader,
pressman and "devil," and has to run
all over town every forenoon in the
vain search for "quarter" to buy
something for his dinner.
ATDo not expect the Editor to
make honorable mention Of you OF
your business every few weeks, fol
nothing. The space in a paper, and
q mans time. are worth something,
and every notice comes back to the
drawer Of the recipient in dollars
and cents. An Editor should not be
allowed to 60 hungry, bsrebacked
or barefooted. They eat, drinl
and wear, just like other people
9-lf the Editor owes you shil
ling, do not chase him from "rosy
morn to balmy eve" Tor it. and wheI
you happen to get the balance on th'
!, other side ''cut the gentlemsn's &C
|, quaintance."
10-"Finally, my brethren,"
you wish properly to sustain You
; county paper, to live the balance o
!; your days in pesc, with God an
8 man, and occupy q seat in Parsdis
. after death, practice the Golde,
. Rule-"Do unto others as you woul
wish they would do u,to you" uude
: like circumstances. Frinters Nsss
Il Letter.