The prairie news. [volume] (Okolona, Miss.) 1851-1875, 1859-01-13

= - Nof"V ouoeaihcu, W. nave conlplIet
the following provisions, which, if com.
Piled with, will secure the end in view
MIND, now, we are not one of those who
say, " You ought to support your paper
whether or not it is deserving" w,
publish the best paper We cam and fee
certain it is worth any mans two dollars
But it is vain in anyone to take our pa
per in the hope that we will consult hi,
taste in our original or selected arti
cles, We think what We please, write
what we think, and publish what We
vrlte-regardless of this or that mans
appreciation. We organ-grind for nc
party, clique, or organization. As d
matter OF course, we have our political
preferences, still, we are willing to give
the devil his due; )" and when any meas
ure is proposed, by those opposing us in
politics, which We think we'll of, we have
been in the habit Of saying and will con-
tlnue to say so; being persuaded that an
independent and honest course will best
subserve the interests and ends of Jour
nalism, and preserve, untrammeled, the
" freedom of the Press" Again, we say,
if any have subscribed TO our paper, la
boring under the hallucination that we
would pander to their partizan predu.
dices or personal animosities, it is worse
than useless to lay any such fattering
JUNCTION to their souls. The "Prairie
News " is our paper, and is the reflex of
oar thoughts. We hate Abolitionism,
and love our own sunny South are for
Fillibusterism, and formens National
Democracy. This is, and has been, the
sum and substance ofour political creed
and it is needless to tell those who know
us that it will be so hereafter But our
preface is growing too long, so here are
the recipes:
/. Lay aside your fears that the edi- |
tor will get rich faster than his neigh |
bors. We have never heard of a man
making more than decent living by a
publication of a country newspaper, even
if he had ever so good business. Do
not tell the editor to send your paper,
without paying, and when youget to owe
'wo or three dollars, tell your friend who
speaks of it, that the paper is of no &C
'ount-that it will burst up some ofthese
lays. The way under such a state of
ne case, to keep a paper from bursting
p, is for each subscriber to keep the
dltor's books free from charges against
imself. This thing of applying the
redit system to the newspaper business,
lay be likened to a farmer selling out
is crop, bushel to a man. The sum
ach owes for the bushel does not seem
any amount to the debtor but the az
regate of these bushels may make or
reak the poor deliver of the soil.
3. If you have a father, mother, SIS
II, brother, or friend of any kind, resid- ,
g at distance, and are able to sub ,
tribe, pay for it, and send them COPY.
a. lfyou have any printing you want 1
)ne, do not jew" the editor down to a ;
aviation price, and when he comes to
AXE purchase'of YOU, "spike on the 1
riff. r
5. If you have any advertising or Job 3
ork to be done, take it to your town
'per, except, perhaps, you may wish to :
lvertise in more than one paper a
6. Do not run off to the city and |
sewhere to get your hand-bills, labels,
rds &C., printed; because forsooth, :
III can get reduction of few cents in a
ice. {" Support your own as you wish e
be supported" A man who is always a
inning away from home with his bust !
'ss little deserves the patronage of the h
in which he lives; so far as
9 are concerned, such will receive the
cold shoulder" n
2. If you have the control of any Ie- q
advertising, send it to your friend =
lis kind of business pays better than u
other, and the more you can send to :
editor of your paper, the better for 7
\ and it. In proportion to the amount u
the receipts of a paper, is an editor ena- /"
ID to make it useful, amusing and en- :,
tanning to the community in which it =
$ published. e
D, DO not expect the editor to make
lorable mention Of You and your bust &C
IS every few weeks for nothing. The in
zee in a paper, and a mans time, are