Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1871-06-15
RUTLAND, MORNING.

of the death, followed by several para
graphs giving religious history of the
good old man, with the request that the
bill for publishing the same be sent to his
son. This was done and in few days
the son made his appearance, red in tie
face, and wanted to know if that was the
way the editor treated his .'old subscrib-
ers." The editor explained that he had
done merely as directed, but this did no
good and the man dnally laid down the
usual alternative, "cross out the charge or
stop my paper" Here I drop the curtain
because I promised not to tell the result,
but what would you have done? Would
you not have asked that NAN if, as an
sold. subscriber" he had not received his
moneys worth? Would you not have
tried to convince him that simply because
you bought his bus.er he ought not to be
expected to give you his oheeseY Would
YOU not have told him that setting up
that type and printing the paper cost you
money aud that you ought not to gratuit,
iously embalm his fathers memory any
more than the undertaken his remains
After all this you might have continued
to send the incorrigible your paper as q
have wanted to meet him again in this
world, nor expected to in the rrxt.
In the cities all notices of marriages,
deaths, appointments and all other busi,
ness and many religious notic-s are paid
for. In the country there is ten times as
much need that they should be, though q
hundred times less disposition to do it.
I would not myself recommend that the
ordinary short notice of death be charg-
ed for, but the Benedick who does not
feel liberal enough to pay the printer
fifty cents for announcing to the world
his consummated bliss, deserves to have his
happiness "sour on" him and suspicious
rumor Menkenize bis fame.
A REASONABLE RULE.
But of course, in all these things rea-
son is to be used. only plead for rule
to which there may be exceptions, but
which shall enable the publisher to de.
rive, as everybody else derives, a fair and
legitimate income from his resources
How much more comfortable, how much
more dignifed, how much more certain
this will be than the craving, cringing
cowardioe which dares not claim its own,
but goes before the public with that cul-
mination of cupidity embodied in the
phrase, "poor printer" great pro-
fession-the acknowledged Archimedean
lever of the nineteenth century-ought
by the very soundness of its business
basis to be above distress and above temp.
alton, always courteous, but alway;
courageous, the unfinching friend of the
people, and the strong right arm OF Chris
tianity.
q Firm in the right, the daily press should be
The tyrant's foe, the champion of the free;
Faithful and constant to its sacred trust;
Calm in its utterance; In It's judgments just;
Wise in its teaching; uncorrupt, and strong
To speed the right and to denounce the wrong
Long may IT be ere candor must confess
On Freedoms shores weak and venal press.
A. A. Earle. editor Of the Barton Stan
ddrd, was .hen introduced, who read ar
excellent poem full OF meaning and senti'
ment, which gives the musings at the
twilight hour on the banks of the noble
Connecticut, mirroring the future from
the past, entitled
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