The state rights democrat. [volume] (Albany, Linn County, Oregon) 1865-1900, 1865-08-21
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to rigidly adhere 70 the advance payment system.
and we do not intend to depart from it in any
instance, After cigk: years experience IN news
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WINGED that it is the dSfy system which ran he
safely pursued. Strict adherence t, The rule wiz
enable US to prosecute he business successfully.
and assure TO every subscriber The narcr for the
term he pays for, without hazard .. failure. We
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punetually to meet these cash expenditures We
must receive the cash for subscription, advertising
and job work. Our experience bas convinced Us
that most of the newspaper failures in Oregon have
been owing 70 tine loose credit srssem extended to
subscribers, Newspaper bills IRE Of necessity small.
and it wiifnot pay TO so or TO send an agen; fer
their collection. Some may think ii an cxaggera-
tion-but We have had ample reason for the state
ment-when We tell shcta that abont one-ffth OF
the credited subscribers fail to pay. Thus. if n
publisher sends out two thousand copies. al three
dollars per year aa3 receives pay only fer sixteen
hundred, he loses actually twelve hGndred dollars,
\ aud this sur. really constitutes the total Of what
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port himself and family and lay BY something 70
reft his Office from time to time. When the cash
is paid him fer his paper IN advance the publisher
is enabled to lay in an ample stock of paper. Sc
cure good hands readily. ard go on with his busi-
nrss smoothly and cheerfully. But when ne trusts
to subscribers to pay whenever daring the whole
year they see fit, ne can never S.feiy count on
meeting any money obligation b. may incur. and
is subjected to countless annoyanees in Prosecuting
his business. il. as Is usually the ease in into
rior weekly papers. the publisher Is also the editor.
these anneyances frequently prevent him from de-
voting that attention to his paper he wishes to give.
and often he finds himself so tormentcd and per-
picked by business troubles that he cannot prop-
crly write up his editorials. Yet the very men
who are delinquent in subscription viii be the very
ones to complain of the want Of Interest in the
paper at such'times. and cry it down among their
neighbors. But we need not common further on
this matter here. We have made this rule TO gov
crn us in the publication OF this paner, and we are
determined 10 adhere TO ii. We are aware that
some win find fault with Us for doing so. If they
are friendly to our enterprise and desire to see 4
sound Democratic paper succeed. ne ask them to
forego their e9nSure and believe us when We assure
them that en- no other basis can tie pa%er be sus-
tanned. On the cash basis ii can he sustained. and
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numbers; if not renewed the paper viii be ceased
to their address. This rule viii Obyiate the vexa-
tiOn sometimes experienced by subscribers who
simply wish a paper for 6 given time. but have il
imposed on them indefinitely afterwards.