Ashtabula weekly telegraph. [volume] (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1853-1873, 1869-01-16

THE SUMMIT COUNTY BEACON, comes TO us
with its promised Enlargement, and as ample
are its proportions and abundant as is its read
ing matter, u, like other smaller papers, is
afflicted with grumblers. The following re-
marks of the Beacon will commend themselves
to the experience of the publishers of every
local paper and ought to be appreciated, and
will be, by every candid and intelligent sub
scribor. The subscription price of the Telegraph,
no more pays the expense Of publication, than
docs that of the BedcOR--nnd the former like
the latter has to fail back on other resources Of
its business, TO help out the cost of publca-
ton. But the Beacon, fortunately has larger
resources, in the thriving, growing, prosperous
manufacturing city Of Akron than we have en-.
joyed. But read, and ponder what the Beacon
says:
Some Of our readers complan--grumbling
is the exercise of an inalienable riaht-because
we do not give them more reading matter, or
because we do not furnish our paper as cheap
as the Tribune or Weekly IicfdM or Ledder,
can be procured, in neighborhoOd clubs Of ten,
twenty or fifty. No reasonable man who will
give moments thought to the subject, will
claim for an instant that newspaper like the
BsucOR with circulation of from 2,000to 1000
could be published upon tho amount of its
subscriptions alone 1t is not easy for per-
son who has never had any experience there
in, to form any conception of the cost of carry.
ing on II printing establishment, like that of
the B6dcoR. for q single year Vastly more
than the entire amount received on subscrip-
ton is required TO pay the salarie OF the vari-
Gus persons employed therein, to say nothing
OF the cost of paper, ink, fuel, rent; wear and
tear of material, machinery &c. &c. 1t will
readily be seen, therefore, that its advertising
patronage, however respectable its subscription
list is the very life of the local newspaper, and
even then it sometimes requires goodly por-
tion OF the revenues arising from job work TO
keep the concern afloat, In the matter of not
being able to afford a local weekly paper at as
low rates as city wecklies are furnished, Il sim
pie explanation should suffice. In the larger
cities daily papers are published, selections
from the matter thus daily putt into type, being
made for the tri-wecklics, scmi-wceklics and
weeklics, issued from the same office, the type
being used over some four or 6Vc times, while
with us, the expense Of setting the type for the
entire paper, with the exception of portion of
the standing advertisements, has to be incurred
for each and every issue. Besides this, the
circulation of the local paper is generally con-
fined to n single county, while the city weekly
| circua'es over n large extent of country and
reaches in some instances, as Is fhc case of the
| New York Tribune hundreds of thousands of
copies. II will then bc seen that with no cost
for typc-setting, the merest fraction of profit
on each paper Of the several editions published
over the cost of white paper and prcss-wOrk
would afford handsome income All, there.
fore, that subscribers can fairly ask is 10 have
as much general intelligence, news miscellany
&c., in addition to due proportion of local
matter-which cannot of course, be obtained
from foreign sourccs-as the circulation and
general patronage of the paper will enable the
publisher to give"