The Richmond palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1855-1875, 1859-04-21
From ths Printers News letter
How To Sustain Your Local PAPER

l Lay aside voar fears that the Eiitor will get
rich faster than his neighbors. We have neve,
heard OF a maa making more than decent living
oy the publication OF county newspaper. even
if he had ever such good business. 4 case in
point Is az acquaintance OF ours, who has been
pHbiIsaing some or seven years, has had al.
The business OF his own town and country and q
large portion ofthat 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
= II the paper agrees with your ways of think.
ing sub crioe and pay for 1t, aud persuade your
nei5hbors of the same MUD to 90 aai do like
wise. Do not tell the editor to sead your paper
without paying, aud when yoe get to owe two or
thiee dollars tell yoar friends who speak of it,
taat tue paper Is of no account, that i viii burst
Up % these days The way under such a
state OF the case, . keap paper from bursting
up, IS for each subs rioer TO keep the editors
books free from charges against himself Once
We had TO close, and on pos ing NJ, foI q we ba /
booked and outstanding some 81 600 more than
We hai capita. Invested rnis thing of applying
the credit system TO the newspaper business Inay
De laened to a farmer selling out his crop, bush
e to a man. The sun each owes for the bnshel
does no. seem Of any account to the debtor. bat
the aggregate of these bushels may make or
break the poor deliver in the soil
3 Ii you haze father, mother, brother, sister,
or friend Of aay kin residing at distance, aud
atS a''eh oAo1I-Ao-, p-t io1 ada eSI4 tueta 4
copy
4 II yoa have any printing you wish done, do
not jew the editor dowa to starvation price
aad ghan he comes to make purchase Of you,
spike on the tariff
}. If you hav. any advertising or job work 10
be done, take il to your county paper, except,
perhaps, If you may wish to advertise IN more
tGaa one paper. La proportion to the amount OF
the receipts of paper is an edit 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, lab!es, cards, &c. printed, because, foTsooth,
YOU can get reduction of few cents in price
4 man who is always RAINING away from home
with his business little deserves the patronage of
the community in which he lives. and as far as
we are concerned, such will receive the cold
shoulder
I. Do not expect mlch Of a paper when au
editor is driven TO BE- his o W compositor. proof
reader. pressman aad devil aud has to all
over TO vn every forenoon il the vain search for
quarter to buy something for his dinner.
s Do not expect the editor to make honorable
meation of You or your business every few weeks
FIR nothing. The space ia paper and mans
time worth sonsthing and every notice comes
back to the drawer OF the recipient in dollars and
cents. An editor should nor be allowed TO go
hungry barebacked and barefooted. They eat
drink, AMI wear, jast like other people.
9. II the editor owes YOU sh ling. do not
chase hm from rosy morn to balmy eve for it,
aad when yoa happen to get the balance on the
other side cut the geatemans "a Ilintalce
10. Finally. mY brethren, if you wish proper
Is to sustain yoar country paper, to live the bal
ance of you: days in peace with God and man
aud occupy a seat il Paradise after death. pyac-
tee the u ,lien e sle-sDo unto Others as you
wolld wish they would DO uato you, under ike
circumstances.