Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1872-11-04
Largest Circulation in the District
Reading Matter on Every Page.
WASHINGTON CITY:
MONDAY. -........NovembeF 4, ls73.
No. and WHY No.


in neighhOring state:
COLLEGE, October 80, fS2-Editors
Warrington StGr.-GeBtemen: We now
opening a large reading room in connection
wlth the college and desire 70 place the leading
JOURNALS ard papers of the country on our files.
hnOHlDg the justly meTited reputation Of your
paper now ask, Will Won please favor us with
aeoPyE While You thus aid in a good csuse
you al the same time extensively advertise your
paper, for We have students from seventeen
states ana large number of visitors. I am,
Sir, very respectfully,
As we are in frequent receipt of applications
of the above character it may be worth while
to state in brief the reasons why we do not
comply. In the first place it costs money, and
good deal Of it, 20 publish a newspaper. The
materials and labor required in its public alton
are cash articles, and il is therefore essential
that its business should be conducted on strict
business principles. Yet from the number of
applications Of this kind il would seem there l.
an idea sfiost that newspaper publishing IL q
sort OF benevolent, or eleemosynary enterprise.
liz Is not easy TO see why printers should
be singled Quit this exceptional way as a class
''to work for nothing and lind themselves, bu.
the fact is so, as every publisher can testify.
Our young friends OF - College would
hardly think of making similar applications to
their tailor, their bootmaker, or their land
lord; but why not? There would be even more
Propriety in asking grstuitous board and cloth
Ing than grstuitOus newspapers, because they
cannot do without the former, and 1t IL not Alb
soiutely essential for their college training that
they should have a reading room. But let US
see how their application, thus changed in its
direction, would read:
- COLLEGE, Oct. 80, 1S.2.-Nessrs
CtotAterS. Gentlemen:-We are now replenish,
Ing our wardrobes for the winter season. and
desire to avail ourselves of the stocks Of the
leading clothlers of the country. Knowing the
justly merited reputation OF your fits, now ask
Will you please favor Us with q few gratuitous
suits While you thus aid q good cause
you az the same time extensively advertise your
establishment, for we have students from sew
enteen states, and large number of visitors
Il am, sirs, very respectfully,
Curator of Atheneum.
Now, as We have said, our college friends
would feel little humiliation, little want Of
self-respect In thus addressing their tailor their
boot-maker, or their landlord, and yet cloth and
leather and beef are no more cash articles than
Ink and paper AND type. And while it may be
very pleasant for the printers to have "the Justly
merited reputation" of their work known in
seventeen states, they could not live on that
Kind Of appreciation; in fact, the more such
patronage they had the worse OFF they would be.
We are not aiming this lecture particularly at
our correspondents OF - College. They have
only followed bad custom-that's all. Thatit
IS bad Observation-Disclosures of proper pride and
selfIespect-they viii see on a moments reaec-
ton.