Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1867-01-03

The Janesviille Gasette has a long artiele
under the above head from which we cliu
the following: Ne.
"Another class of well meaning bEt
thoughtless persons regard a newspaper as
sort OF benevolent enterprise, gotten iis}
by some liberal minded gentl9ma for tlse
sole purpose of doing all the good possible,
and who have selected the million-ton
press to accomplish it. They are tlie.
regular poachers upon the press-men WHO
always want their fayors inserted gratuitE
| ously and are always ready to inform Tie
publisher that he is engaged in publishing.
a newspaper, and they are always sure TO-
have something of a business nature thats
they believe to be good news which ouoIlts
to be given to the eager public at onc&s,
One man has just patented new HEATING
apparatus that will save half the fuel noSx
used, and of course it will be great fayok'
to the poor if the editor will Just tell tiHa
people free Of cjtarge, where such an aps
paratus can be bought A man engaged
in the manufacture of headers, recently
sent us a communication of two columns
solid matter, setting forth the saving his
machine would be to farmers over the COM
mon reaper, which he wished inserted
gratis, because ii aoOuld be helpi7eg the .filyr
mers, don't you see?
Then there are numberless organizations
and associations of individuals that are
clamorous for free ride in the publishers
wagon. The different religious denomin-
ations want all their notices of meetings.
conventions and festivals published free
first, because they are too poor to pay, and
second, because they are engaged in doing
good and it is the business of publishers to
help on the noble work Firemen get no
pay for watching the property of citizens,
and must have@their little notices of elec4
tons, meetings, &c, given them pro bono
DubIacO The temperance organizations are
busy in the noblest work that can engage
the effort of men-that of uplifting the fat
len and ruined of our race. Can any edit
or who has one drop of the milk of human
kindness anywhere about him, be SO Mig
gardly as to refuse to print their notices
of meetings, lectures, society meetings and
the like, without payy The literary socie-
ties sometimes engage q lecturer who does
not draw, and the publisher is asked to dis
count on their bill because they have failed
in their efforts to please and edify the pub
lic John Doe takes weekly paper for
which he pays two dollars year and gets
five dollars worth of reading His wife and
he asks the editor to print an obituary.
notice that costs at least two dollars to gets
it put in type.-Jo Ohm might s.consistentlvs
ask the undertaken who furnished the cof41
fin for his poor wife to throw ina small
one for his youngest child, simply because
he was patron of his, as to ask such
favors OF a newspaper without pay. A
man is nominated for office, and mighty
mean men get into Office out west some-3
times, and he expects the editor to put thel
best possible face on his fitness for the POI
sitiOn, whitewash his character, print his
tickets and vote them too, all for the good
of the cause and the success Of correct
principles.
We beg all whom it may concern to re-
member that no good newspaper can be
made without it has the whole time and
industry of all those engaged on it, and its
expenses are comparatively larger in pro-
portion to it's gross receipts than almost
any other sort of business. If you read a
paper, pay forit, if you need its facilities
for getting your business before the public
and increasing your trade, pay FOR that but
don't sponge.