The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1865-01-05

]NSONolDEhAIE AND ONJOo1'- ~"
our subscribers have taken umbrage at on
action advancing the subscription prlce 9
our paper, and promptly ordered 1t dlscon
tinued, in one or two instances withou
thinking it worth while to pay up two o.
three years arrearages. Now, we MAINTAIN
that we are not to blame for this advance,
but that we are as unwilling to make 1t, as
lour most economical subscriber, Ito call it
by no worse name, is to submit to it. We
did not make the necessity for it, any more
than our farmer friends made the necessity,
for doubling and trebIing on many Of their
lproducts Onr county patrons instead OF
flying off in pet, should consider that their
Ecounty paper is one of their own institutions
as necessary and Indispensable in this en-
frightened age as their food and clothing
and stand by US to help US through this
hard time, We are all in the boat together
1 and must assist each other. -. ----
sFo@show that We have not made any
thing like the advance that. has marked
everything that we haye-to eat or wear, or
that enters into ouribusiness, we make few
statements AT the commencement Of the
war the white, paper for our weekly issue,
| cost, .a r. 'E~ $3.50 -a' ~, 80
Now it costs, a'.a 7d; 3s4i $50, 90
On all the finer kinds Of paper, used in
most of jobbing, the advance is still greater.
Then the coal to warm our office
cost aav q, .,-s4.rS s. So to Sc per ton.
Now it costs ar $40 ''l,a
Then our wood cost US So to 81 per cord.
Now it costs us $50 to $50 ~
Then our ink cost % cts. per ID.
Now it costs 80 g
Then the labor in our Office cost SO to S12
Now. it costs $25 to $28
Then we received for one years subscrip-
ton bus. potatoes, a. lsrr $3.50
Now the same bus. cost $3.50
Theu for one years subscription we reciev
ed y lbs. of Butter, $3.50
Now the same IL lbs. cost S5,O4
: Then dozen eggs cost 10 to IL cts.
Now the same cost, 96 "
Then Factory cloth for shirts cost us per
ward soa~A .a-) sssS1 esa.o aaA s to II cts.
Now the same costs s.a,,t.g SO to 70 cts
Sugar cost then 3 to 10 cts. per ID.
Now the same costs % to SO cts. '"-
And everything else that we have to buy
in the same proportion, and these prices
most of them have ruled the same for
nearly or quite year past, during all which
time we had only advanced the price of our
paper5o cts year or 80 per cent, while
on an average everything that we have had
to eat and wear, and all the stock used in
our Office had advanced from 200 to 800 per
cent This new advance that we have at
length been compelled to make, leaves still
a large margin between our advance and the
advance of everything else. is only to-
tai advance from our original rates Of &c
per cent. ''-..--.- # I'll 500
In view of these facts, is there any JUS
tice or common sense in. the course of
these men who in a spirit of Of anger and
spite, order their paper discontinued. We
need the aid and assistance Of every one of
our subscribers, and we shall be sorry to
lose single one, but we mast have enough |
to live on, and pay for our help and our pa
per-more than that we do not expect.
Some seventy-fve or a hundred papers |
within the past three months have been
to give up the ghost, for the want
IF adequate support but we have constitu-
5ional objections, as well as conscientious
1crupes against giving up the ghost and
we shall therefore make desperate effort to
i've down the hard times, and hold on until
his ''cruel war is over and we are able to
give all our patrons the Telegraph at the old
price again.