The Fremont weekly journal. [volume] (Fremont, Sandusky County, Ohio) 1867-1877, 1870-03-11

/ u9S " l. W might 6al
make the sest Hss of your wealth
and you can only do that by using
it in a way to sH.bserve the best in
tersst Of mankind. But whether
generous motives or selfish desires
prompt to action, let US at least hare
the manufactures.
TIE Cincinnati Cammerciaz, in
some matters, is about as triaing a
sheet as finds its way to the public.
While generally well conducted, ii
occasionally allows its spleen to get
the better efits judgment, and in
the mater Of its attacks upon the
country press, is showing how ex-
tremely little big thing can be me.
When the bill to repeal the franking
privilege WIS introduced, (it provi-
ded for repeating all laws relating to
free matters, and would have sub
! jected subscribers to county papers
to pay postage on those papers, } it
was exceedingly rejoiced and thought
thereby to enlarge its circulation
hugely, for people would not pay
postage on country papers. Since
tho Editorial Convention at Spring
field, it has renewed its attacks, in
referring to resolution there pas
sed requesting the Ohio delegation
in Congress to oppose any change
in the law relating to carrying news
papers. In doing so it uses the
following language:
"This is an outcry of a parcel of
dead-heads, and it means opposition
to the reform of the franking abuse.
The rural editors squeal at the idea
that their subscribers shall paw post
age. 0fcourse they take q verv
narrow and imperfect view
subject" OF the
That is impp'
the nso. .ence for you; and
NJ .est kind. Dead heads" in
LAT? Does the country press en-
ioy a greater exemption than the
city press? Is not the law equally
as applicable to the papers published
in Hamilton county as in any Other
county in the State or States? And
has not the virtuous velocipedist
: Murat, "dead headed" it on Uncle
Samuel to as great, yea greater ex
tent than his country cousins, ever
as his circulation is greater? "Dea(
heads" in what? Has the country
press ever descended to the dead hcac
begging in which that paper hai
,, INDUCED and does indulge every yea;
! when it sends out its column adrer
: tlsement, and asks its country
cousins to "insert three times" anC
it viii send its daily in exchange
In papers of reasonable circulation
the advertising asked for would cos
from SIS to $50. Its paper is worth
$40, and the county paper 50, diff
ference of SIS. Deduct this from th'
: advertising, and it leaves from S
tn $12 which it tries to "dead head
off each Of the country papers 81
= green rs to accede to its terms
"Dead-beads," indeed. 1t has dead
! headed Off the country press, unit
} it has been introduced into ever.
2 hamlet in the land, through thei
influence and now puts on airs Q
i independence, pomposity and i'm
portance, and hurls insults at thos
whose debtor it is. Those paper
which have been so liberal with thei
> space, to glut the Golfers Of this cit.
nabob, many probably, hereafter
assert a little of the manliness an
Independence which the Commercio
seems to deprecate, when its annus
begging circular comes round. "
did not publish its column advel
tisement, for we have no intentio
> of paying double value on that o
anyother publication, and the soone
the country press adopt that rul
the sooner they will be exempt from
annoyance by the dead heading Com
: mercidl, and all others of its clas:
i But what would the Cnmmercio
d wish? Hear that repository of wis
e dom express itself:
: We do not say that there shoulc
d be paid as much postage on a pape
, that is transported the breadth of
- county as if it crossed the continen
but We do say the principle shoulC
$ be established that all mail matte
q should be paid matter, and the coun
II try editors have done themselve
# great discredit by not only failing t,
/ formally secognize this principle
" but by demanding that their shar
S ofdead-heading, which depriyes tn
: Post-ofTice Department Of revenu
d to the amount of a million dollar
f annually, shall be untouched, an,
by furnishing in this way an excus
> that will be made available for th
e perpetuating of the franking swindl
e in the hands Of ofiieials.-Ciaciana
b Commercial.
d Exactly, thou Solon. The la,
r to be just must be equitable. It
e so now. 1t exempts single coun
+ try to each, and outside of that
Y uniform rate prevails, be the dis
tance great or small, and so it
equitable. But if, rs the Commercio
proposes, the rate of postage be gov
enncd by distance, it must be equit
: able in order to be just, and a rat,
o per mile or county, would have to b,
. established, in order that injustic
]. should not be done. Imagine,
you please, the working up process
by which to charge a county paper