Iowa voter. [volume] (Knoxville, Iowa) 1867-1874, 1871-02-23

| OUR young friend G.. III. Inelef,ela
retAlrned last Wednesday from Knoy'
Il vile, Iowa, with q bride. forinerl,.
\ Miss Stella Bailey s,re0o fKansa.,
Register, 10Th inst.
How 1T WORKs. AS we have now
tried the Advance Payment system 81
Subscriptions for q year, doubtless
some Of our exchanges, and perhap,
some readers, may feel interested TO
know "how 1t works.
The Advance Pay Agreement,
which stands at the head of our s,I,
page, was entered into in January Of
last year, by Messrs. Better Bros Of
the Pella Blade, and ourselves. Our
reasons are very clearly set forth in
the Agreement itself. The Agree
ment was never shown to our neigh
Dor OF the Democrat Whose name an.
pears therein) until twoor three weeks
after Better Bros. and ourselves
signed 1.-THE supposition being that
he would not sign It, or, II he did,
would find it inconvenient to abide
by 1t. But just before the Agreement
was to be first published, we conclu-
ded to take it over to our neighbor
and let him sign 1t If he wanted to-.
He read it, signed it Immediately, and
published 1t for some time in his pa
per, making professions otherwise of
adhering to it. But he VIGOROUSLY
never has adhered to 1t at all. So far
as we know the Publishers of the
Blade have adhered to the Agreement
strictly, as in honor bound-as we
have ourselves.
So much as prelude. AS to the
practical working Of the system, it has
been even better than We expected.
There are drawbacks to it, Of course.
Some Of the wealthy citizens Of the
County think that of course we won't
dare to stop their papers, and so they
let the matter run, and neglect the
notices sent them. The result is, their
papers stop when the time is out--and
then they get mad, and, in some cases
that we could name, go forthwith and
subscribe for the Democrat because it
don't require pay in advance. "Queer
Republicans" one would naturally
say, land queer men, to thus get mad
at one man for keeping his word, and
patronize another just because he don't
do as he agrees" Indeed their course
does look at least Every PECULIAR
but whoever tries the Advance Pay
plan will find that there are just such
men.
Again, there are many good and
worthy men, who, in these very tight
times, really don't feel able to raise
the money to pay in advance for their
papers. They like the paper, and
want to keep on taking it; but they
think they can't spare the money.
OF course, the Publishers cannot make
exceptions to meet all these cases; for
II they did the the whole Advance
Pay system would be gone at once.
But to thus be compelled to stop the
paper when the time is out, when its
patrons really want it to continue, is
one Of the most unpleasant things
about the whole matter, though abso-
lutely unavoidable.
But there are unpleasant features to
almost everything. Doubtless man
don't have to run newspaper great
while in order to find out that the
only proper way is, to do just as he
believes to be right and best, and then
take the consequences, good and bad,
as they come. As to enemies, he will
have them anyhow, no matter what
plan he takes or what he dOes-if he
does anything. On the whole, then,
after years trial, and after due bal
apcing of the facts and arguments on
each side, we like the Advance Pay
ment system, believe 1t to be every
way the best, both for publishers and
for their patrons, and propose to
continue to abide by It strictly SO long
as we run paper, NO matter whether
others do or not.