National opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1865-1874, 1869-08-20
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and therein we may have gained the
object we had in view. We desire
to startlc a very large class right
here in New Albany who regard
themselves the best friend the pa.
per has, and who are really so when
they can he paid for being 50, or
when it cost them nothing to be so;
or when it is popular to be so, or
when they can grind some edge tool
of their own in being sr. All theso
considerations are to them q Qlian.
tum suiliclt for display Of wordy
friendship wherein no more stbstan:
tlal drains are made upon them than
tonguey professions of devotion to
the best interests of the newspaper
publisher.
People don't seem to know as well
rs the publisher that it takes money
to buy paper, pay the bands hire.
rent, Insurance, coal bills, gas bills,
ct cetera. They don't seem to reals
ize that publisher cannot live
without bread and meat, wood and
coal, clothing and house SHELTER
They really appear to regard him as
a thing of air, who sucks his subs
stance from the atmosphere and
draws his supplies from some secret
and hidden depository known only
to himself. Flesh and blood and
bones he has, to be snre, and, a few
of his very special friends will ad-
nit, braius also. Yet, they doubt
less believe, from their actions, that
his mortal has by some wonderful
process been transmognitied into
that state Of the spiritual that Gle.
Yates him far above the vulgar con.
ditions of hunger, cold or any of
the other little wants that flesh hath
feeling of So much as introduce
tory. Now to business.
Every man or woman that wants
something done for nothing, goes
straightway to the publisher Of the
newspaper. He is the free bridge
over which merit and demerit pro-
poses to pass the stream of trouble.
He's the free horse that every man
proposes to ride INTO the green pas-
lures of prosperity, and when he has
reached his destination to set loose
and with ii kick turn back to the
place of starting for the next sCGlla.
wag to mount. There are many pa
tlent publishers who seem to esteem
it a favor to be thus turned into a
pack horse, but we are not one Of
them.
We do not deny that we are ex-'
pectcd to gratuitously puff every
man that engages in business until
we have advertised him into IL lucra.
tive trade. We do not deny that
some people expect us to write and
publish column after column com.
= mendlng and making known all over
the country the business of manu-
featuring establishments In the city
from which we only occasionally
receive petty job or ADVERTISE
, ment, ut prices 'Jcwed down to
starvation rates, and would send
five or six hundred miles away to q
rival city for II little job of work in
4 order to save the pitful sum OF
! one to five dollars. We are of course
| expected to puff such concerns as
e immense 'lirst.class,' 'liberal,' 'cn-
u tcrprising,' and all such sickening
& adjcctivcs, but we don't intend ever
to do the like again, and sincerely
y pray the Lord to forgive us for what
e we have done Of it heretofore. 1t
:, has been the custom here. We pro
II pose to abolish it so far us the Com
:, mercidl is concerned.
If II railroad is proposed which i.
l. to make few men rich, these few
o men at once 'go for the publishC r
: paint the glorics, the beauties, tn,
T. advantages of their line, and soils
T., cit his influence and that of his pa
y per. Column after column is expect
nr ed. And the greater the swindl'
AZ contemplated the more he is expect
Ic ed to Impress its Importance upoI
Is the innocent taxpayer. 1t is jus
Is the same with turnpilkes and planl
q roads.
5, Our money is invested in thes
'd establishments. We are publishin!
st Il da ly and weekly newspaper, pay
II ing the necessary expenses thcrec
II with our own money. The column
tn of these papers are our own privat
ut propcrty-tllcy are u portion of GU
rs own capital in business. and "
cr have the same right to 20 into an
NJ manuiactory, store or shop in til
be- clty and ask ,ae proprietor to civ
us his goods without pay, rs tn
proprietors of these establishment
he have to expect us to use our col
at umns to puff their establishments
ne graluil ously, into Importance, an
ry thus increase their business an
ld make money for them. We pay |
So cash for all we get of them; an
.d when We use our columns for the
or benefit they should pay for them
to-. alid must
Iid The newspaper is % cCuvenicl
ut thing to use when any new cnte
dS prise Is to bcgotten mp for the ben
IN fit OF the business classes. 81
ir, when job printing is to bc don
Sn these same business classes or
ny portion of them, think it u vel
proper thingto ignore the newspi
per Offices, and give their work
~, job printing concerns that will 'c'
try the prices,' IN order to save ic
lry dimes. Many OF them totally |
cr. more the newspaper offices F; yet tn,
in expect the newspapers to freely ai