Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1866-12-21
How to Sustain your Local Paper.

/ Lay aside your fears that the Edi-
j tor viii get rich faster than his neigh
bors. We have never heard of a man
making more than a decent living By a
publication of a country newspaper,
even if he had ever such a good busi-
ness. A case in point is an acquain-
lance of ours, who has been publish
ing some six or seven years, has had
all the business oe his own town and
county, and large portion Of that of
the surrounding but with a Il this, he
gets into as tight piuches for money
to buy his white paper as any other
! publisher with whom we are acquain-
ted.
If the paper agrees with your ways
/ Of thinking, subscribe and pay for it,
and persuade your neighbors of the
same mind, to ''go and do likewise.
Do not tell the editor to send you the
/ paper, without paying, aud when you
/ get TO owe two or three dollars tell
your friends who speak of it, that the
1 paper is Of no account, that it will
1 burst up one of these days. The way,
I under such a state of the case, to keep
paper from bursting up. IS for
each subscriber to keep the editors
/ books free from charge against him
self
This thing of applying the credit
I system to the newspaper business may
/ be likened to a farmer. selling out his
crop, q bushel to a man The sum
each owes for a bushel does not seem
/ of any account to the debtor, but the
aggregate of these bushels may make
or break the poor deliver in the soil.
IF you have a father, mother, sister,
brother or friend of any kind, residing
at a distance, and are able, subscribe,
pay for and send them a copy.
If you have any printing you wish
done, do not jew" the the editor down
TO starvation price, and when he
comes to make q purchase of you
spike on the tariff.
IF you have any advertising or job
work you wish done, take 1t to your
County paper, except perhaps you may
wish to advertise IN more than one pa
per.
Do not run off to the city to get
your handbills, labels, cards, &C.,
printed, because, forsOOth, you can get
a reduction of few cents In price
Support your own as you wish to be
supported. A man who is always run
ming away from home with his business
ubBie deserves Gue patronage OF Lu6
community in which he lives; and, as
far as we are concerned, such will re-
ceive the cold shoulder.
Do not expect much of a paper when /
an editor is driven to be his own com
positor, proof-reader, pressman and /
devil, and has to run all over town (
every forenoon in the vain search for (
a quartet" to buy something for his /
dinner.
Do not expect the editor to make
honorable mention Of you or your bu-
siness every few weeks for nothing /
The space in a paper and a mans time /
are worth something, and every notice (
comes back to the drsWer Of the re-
eipient in dollars and cents. An edi- I
tor should not be allowed to go hun
CRY, barebacked or barefooted. They /
eat, drink and wear, just like other
people.
Finally, if you wish to properly sus-
tain your county paper, to live the bal
ance of your days in peace with God
and man, and occupy q seat In Para
disc after death, practice the Golden
Rule: Do unto others as you would
wish they would do unto you, under
like circumstances - 1ffia Tribune.