Red Wing sentinel. [volume] (Red Wing, M.T. [i.e. Minn.]) 1855-1861, 1859-02-26
How ;;;'' 70 sss5sa1 your Local laper.

Lay aside rear l6ars that tho Editor
will get rich faster than his I,eighbors. We
have never heard ofa man making more than
= decent living by publication Of country
newspaper, even If he he'd ever such good
business. Acase in point is IN acquaintance
Of ours, who has been Publishing some six or
seven years, has had all the business Of his
own towa and county, and large portion Of
that Of the surrounding; but with all this he
gets into = tight pinches for money to buy
big white paper with Is any other publisher
with whom we are acquainted.
ali the paper agrees with your ways Of
thinking, subscribe and pay for it, and per-
suade yoMr neighbors Ct the same mind to
"go and do likewise" Do not tell the cd.
itor to send your paper, without paying, and
when you get to owe two or three dollars
tell your friends 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 paper from
bursting up,'' is for each subscriber to keep
the EDITORS books free from charges agains
himself. Once we had to close, and on post
ing up, found We had booked and outstand.
ing some $500 more than wo had capital in
vested. This thing Of applying the credit
system to the newspaper business may be
liked to. farmer selling out hts crop, : hush
81 to the man. The sum each owes fnr the
bushel does not seem Of any account to the
debtor. but the aggregate Of these bushels
may make or break the poor deliver in thu
soil.
3.-If you have a father, mother, brother
sister, OF friend Of any kind, residing at .
distance, and are able, subscribe, pay tor and
send them copy.
At You have any printing you wish
done, do not '"jsw" the editor down to 1
starvation prise. and whenshs oomss to make
4 purchase Of you "spike on the tariff"
5.--H you have any advertising or jol
work 70 be done, take it to your county pa
per- except, perhaps, you may wish to adver
tise IN more than one paper.
6.-Do not run off to the city to get youl
handbills, labels, cards, &c. printed, because
torsooth, you can get reduction o: a few
cents in price. Support your own as you
wish to be supported. 4 man who is al.
ways running away from from home with
his business, little deserves the patronage O
the community in which he lives and, a
far - We are concerned, such will receive thu
+" cold shoulder" a ,n. 80 .a.s,ss ...ra.
III you have the control Of any lega
advertising. send it to your friend. Thi.
kind Of business pays better than any other
and the more yon can send to the editor o
your paper, the better for him ana it. II
proportion to the amount Of the receipts Of
paper, is On editor enabled to make it useful
amusing and entertaining to the communisy
in which it is published. rs -
Sd" not expect much Of a paper whel
u
proof-rcader, prcS$nan and devil" and ha
to run all over town every forenoon in tn,
vain search for a "qu,rter'' to buy something
FIR his dinner.
9.--Do not cxpec' the editor to maxi
honorable mention Of you or your bushes
every few weeks for nothing. The space il
paper. an n mans time, are worth some
thing and every notice comes back to tn
drawer Of the recipient in dollars and cents
An editor sh nd not bc allowed TO 60 hun
gar, b,rch,ckch or barefoo;cd. They 'eat
lri * AMI Wear. just ik. other people,"
lO.--lf the editor owes YOU u shilling, D.
not chase him from ''rosy morn to bslm
eve' for it. and when you happen to get Il,
balance ON the Other side, "cut the gentle
mans acquaintance.
IL Finally, my BRETHREN if you wis
70 properly sustain your county paper. /
live the b''a"ce Of your days in peace wit
God AMI man, AMI occupy - scat in Paradis
after death, practice the Golden Rule" D
unto others a. You would wish they woul
do unto you," under ike circumstances.