The Richmond palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1855-1875, 1867-04-18
Tho Newspaper Business.

The Janesville Gazette has long ar
ticle under this head to the following
effect:
"Another class of we'll meaning but
thoughtless persons regard newspaper
as q sort af benevolent enterprise gotten
up by some liberal minded gentleman for
the sole purpose of doing all the good
possible, and who has selected the mil
lion tongued press to accomplish it
They are the regular pcachers Of the
press -rnen who always want their favors
inserted gratuitously, and are always
ready to inform the publisher that he is
engaged in publishing a newspaper, and
always sure to have something of bust
ness that they believe to be good news
which ought to be given to the eager
publisher at once. One man has just
patented q new heating apparatus that
will save half the fuel now used. and OF
course it will be a great favor to the poor
if the editor will just tell the people,
free of charge, where such an apparatus
can be bought. A man engaged in the
manufacture of reapers, recently sent us
communication Of two columns of solid
matter, setting forth the saving his ma
chine would be to farmers over the com
mon reaper, which he wished inserted
gratis; it would be helping farmers, don
you seer
Then there are numberless organizs-
tions and associations Of individuals that
are clamorous for free ride in the pub
lisher's wagon The religious denomin
ations want all their notices of meetings,
conventions and festivals published free
first, because they are too poor to pay,
nd n
doing good, and it is the business of tie
publisher to help on the noble work
Firemen get no pay for watching the
property of citizens, and must have their
little notices of elections, meetings, &c,
given them pro bono pubfieo. The tenn
perance organizations are busy in the no.
blest work that can engage the efforts of
men-that of uplifting the fallen and
ruined Of their race. Can any editor,
who has one drop of the milk of human
kindness anywhere about him, be so mig
yardly as to refuse to print their notices
of meetings, lectures, society meetings,
and the like, without pay? The literary
societies sometimes engage a lecturer
who does not draw, and the publisher is
asked to discount on their bills because
they have failed in their efforts to please
and edify the public. John Dow takes
a weekly paper for which he pays two
dollars year and gets five dollars worth
of reading. His wife dies and he asks
the editor to print an obituary notice
that costs at least two dollars to get it
put up in type John might as consis
tently ask the undertaken who furnishes
the coffin for his poor wife to throw in
small one for his youngest child, simply
because he was a patron of his, as to
ask such favors of a newspaper without
pay. A mean man is nominated for
office, and mighty mean men get into
offices out West sometimes, and he ex-
poets the editor to put on the best pos
sible face as to his fitness for the position,
whitewash his character, print his tickets
and vote them 100, all for the good of the
cause and the success of correct prin
ciples.
We beg all whom it may concern to
remember that no good newspaper can
be made without it has the whole time
and industry Of those engaged on it, and
its expenses are comparatively larger in
proportion to its gross receipts than al
most any other sort of business. If you
read a paper, pay for it if you need its
facilities for getting your business before
the public and increasing your trade, pay
for that, but don't sponge.