The Lansing state Republican. [volume] (Lansing, Mich.) 1855-1874, 1864-07-13

pers can be successfully published; and We earn
estly recommend 10 publishers 70 adopt and rig /
idly adhere 10 that system.
The committee on advance payment, and the I
general systemAtiziug OF the newspaper business
submitted tue iOllO~ing report which was adopt l
ed by the Convention
Your Committee on advance payment and
systemaiziug the newspaper business would re-
port:
Tha. from their o~n knowledge the lack OF
business system in managing newspapers. ard
the custom Of long aud never ending credits are
dead weights upon too many journals. Sabscri |
bers have taken papers TO "paroniEe them |
without any idea that payment WAS necessary,
and politicians have sought 10 edit and control
them because they were called Republican. De
mocratc or BY some other name, while business
men have advertised because thev we're beg
ged 10 10 80. and sith air OF comforting a
favor upon publishers instead Of themselves.
To remedy these evils, and plant the press Of
our State upon iair business foundation, your
Committee would recommend the editors aud pub
hshers 10 act upon legitimate business principles,
that while serving the public. and perhaps ser
wants OF the public, they give the public 10 un-
derstand that they are o~ned 10y neither parties,
cligues, nor Subscribers but that Tor their labor
they are entitled 10 pay AZ regular aud rcmune-
rating rates.
! Your Committee would therefore submit for
the guidance of the press of this State, the iol-
lowing genersl principles. leaving each TO ampii-
/ ty the same for himself
/ lst That 10 should be a rule With every editor
never on any account TO insert article or
communication merely to please 10 writer. or
where il leit 20 his judgment alone il would be
rejected.
, An editor should always feel at liberty 10
use material that may come into his hands in any
manner be may think best even TO culing out
the Interesting points, aud presenting them iu
his own language
Sd. As rule We believe paper increases in
interest and popularity directly IN proportion a.
all the matter il contsns i prepared expressly
for It's columns
4th. The strength OF local newspaper is in
liz local news. and We recommend that every
publisher mark out Tor himself a field, aud make
systematic arrangements for procuring every
item Of intelligence that nav transpire within
such field
9Th. The system OF giving pufs in our local
columns is detrimental TO our advertising.
9th. In the case Of notices OF literary, patriot
ic and charitable organizations such a. Soldiers
Aid Societies, etc, We recommend that a uoIHi-
nal charge be always made, and that the same
policy be pursued in regard TO advertising done
tor political organizations.
7th. That every publisher should have an IN
varying scale OF prices for advertising, aud as
far a. practicable, local publishers should adopt
uniform scales.
sth. That al transient advertising should be
paid for when ordered in, aud those bills for sd-
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ways be settled at east at the expiration OF each
halt year.
9th No "tll forbid" advertisement should
ever be admitted into newspaper.
10th Marriages and death notices are proper
objects for charges
llth Subscriptions should always be paid in
advance. Ii would he well 90 notify subscribers
a few weeks before thcir subscriptions expire,
but a paper should never bo sent = single day
over the time for which it il paid By rigidy
adhcriug Ia this ;lc in everV case, the pub
Usher Will give no cause for offence IN stopping a
paper.
l2th. In general, the editorial management OF
I "A paper should be with the editor, and not with
hi- correspondents or contributors, or the public
at large; he should insert Just what. in his
judgment, wanted by The msjouty Of his
readers, or what hc hinsc conceves to be
iikiAs nhtihh.iAttfA ~ pfAroiuA A'hhiANi-eo"
and in its business management, = newspaper
I should be conducted Ike any other business. and
where any consideration is rendered TO ihdividu-
al, il should be- paid for AZ tho time, and AZ an
established price.
The Committee on tho organization Of a per-
manent Press Association Tor this State submits
ted report, which, after a warm discussion, was
I recommittcd The committee, after consulta
ton submitted the following report, which was
accepted and adopted
The committee TO whom was recommtted the
subject OF The permanent organization OF State
) Press Association with instructions TO report q
plan for immediate organization, beg leave TO re-
port the following, which they recommend to the
, Convention for it, adoption as the Constitution
Of said Association