The Jackson standard. [volume] (Jackson C.H., Ohio) 1847-1888, 1870-10-13
A Talk With the People.
BY THK EDITOR.

This IS the last numDet OF the StdH> |
olard that will be sent to my campaign |
subscribers, part company with you
with regret. / hope many of you will
renew your subscription. / think none
of you wilGsay at the end of the year,
that the price of the paper, $3.50, or
about the proceeds ofone days work,
has not been well invested.
You.are aware that l Intend to get a
new press, new type, and other mate
rails, and enlarge the paper at the com
mencement of the new year. The Stan
dard now has neat appearance, and
some publishers have told me that it
looks we'll enough without renewing
the type, But / am ambitious to make
it one of the neatest and best country
papers in the State. You will notice
that use a superior article of paper
None OF your thin, straw paper. have
made arrangements to have my pa
per manufactured Of rags, at Della
ware, Ohio, expressly for the Standard,
of the quality which suits me.
Now | want to speak of my future
plans, and want you, the people, to
aid me in carrying them out ! have
had many years experience in the busi-
ness, and l think l know about
what the people of this county need
in the way ofa local paper. have Civ
Ell up all other business, and intend to
devote my entire time and energies to
the paper. have studied out many i'm
provements which l intend to intro
dnce.
For more than seven years / have
published and edited the Standard alone,
without any dictation or control. ],
alone, am responsible for what it has
contained. 1t has never failed to make
its appearance promptly on time, and
no half sheet has been issued, only
where extra numbers have been needed.
The paper has been enlarged from "a
column paper to 28, and now / propose
to enlarge to 80 columns. The price ol
subscription had always been one dollar,
and it was kept at that price up into the
war, when all the other papers had gone
up to two dollars. / found that mus
also come up with the times, and | al
once raised from one dollar to two dol
lars. ! supposed that | would lose many
subscribers in consequence; but yot
stood by me nobly, and do not thinl
a dozen quit in consequence Of the in
creased price. Afterwards ] fell tC
81 80, and there is where made IL,
greatest mistake ever made in tn
business. No other paper of the siz
and character ofthe Standard ispublish
ed for less than two dollars.
! must raise the price of the paper t,
two dollars when it is enlarged, the frs
issue in January; but all who payin ad.
vance before that time, can have 1t fO
81 so per year, for as long a time a
they choose to pay in advance. lhav
an object in making this Offer Th
money will be worth much to me.
very much need another job press.
lost two good jobs within the past te
days, for want of another press /
would save expense to get the job pres
when get the newspaper press ! hav
not money enough to get both, withou
borrowing l would rather borrow
from you, and pay 25 per cent, than d
without the Job press.
Now suppose 400 of you pay on
year in advance, That will be $500
That will buy the job press, bring it t
Jackson and put it up. You will save
money by it, and will aid mo yer,
much. II you want to pay for two, o
three, or more years in advance, 81
much the better Suppose you pay m,
FIVE dollars before the first issue in Jan
uary next You will be entitled to thu
paper for three years and four months
/ but il not paid until after that time, you
would only get it two years and hall
So you see that by paying five dollar
before the increase of price, you woul
gain nearly one year But each on
must consult his own ability aud con
venience in the matter.
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