The Lincoln County herald., 1873-05-07
THE HER A Id.
TROY, MO-. MAY Z, 1873.
Publishers Association.

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advice aud suggestions as to what ought
10 be done. This association is for the
purpose Of comparing views on the mul.
,itude of subjects affecting the interests
Of the state, clevating the standard Of
journalism, promoting social feeling and
good will among members Of the frster.
nifty, discussing matters Of business, aud
enjoying spice Of pleasure and recrea
ton from the interminable cares and
duties attending the lives of newspaper
men. In this respect the annual ming
ling Of pencil drivers has its beneficial
influence.
Among the many questions for con.
sijeration suggested by the papers, We
find the Mexico Leader desiring some
action 10 regard to advertising agents.
Our experience is, that the less a paper
has to do with them, the better. We
mean the average agency, few Of which
ever take into consideration the interests
Of their patrons, and never offer any but
starving rates. and generally on q spe
cies Of advertising that We never admit
70 the columns Of the Herald. Our
mode Of treating the circulars Of such
is to assign them to the waste basket"
We never waste stamps on them.
The Jefferson City Tribune suggests
that the subject Of legal advertising en-
gage their sttention-the publication Of
laws, abolishing written legal notices,
etc. The matter of paying postage on
exchanges, (which is an embargo on the
spread Of intelligence" it thinks should
also be looked after. As gentlemen
eminen,Iy proper to bring these subjects
before the association, the Tribune men
Hons such veterans as Julian, cf the
johnson Democrat Switzler, Of the
Columbia Statesman; Williams, of the
Fulton Telegraph, aud Sossey, &C the
Palmyra Spectator,
The Sedalia Democrat looks upon the
patent insides and outsidcs Of country
newspapers as at variance with the in.
tercsts of printers, and as rejecting no
credit upon the profession. The War
renton Banner also refers to this mode
of publishing, and as bar to elevation v
desires to bring the subject before the
association. That is delicate ground to
tread upon, for this once was, and is now
popularly supposed to be- free country,
aud there certainly can be no question as
to the right of a publisher to print hi:
paper where and how he pleases--out in
the woods and on an old Ramage press
IF that suits him best. We do not alto.
re,her agree with the Democrat, that the
auxiliary system is at war with the inter
ests of printers; we once thought so,
but have changed cur views. This sys-
TEN encourages the publishing of larger
papers IN small places that could not
otherwise sustain them, and permits the
establishing of papers in towns tina.
would never be blessed with an advocate
of local interests if the more dgnfod
and standard mode Of printing were
strictly adhered to; (,his is plainly evi.
dent among many papers that vainly try
to keep up the standard system by filling
vp with huge patent medicine advertise
nents at ruinous rates, doubling" etc.
thereby doing as much harm as patent
sides moy;) hence, il it lessons the work
in some Offices, it furnishes other Offices
Of employmcu The question with
journeymen should be, whether the ratio
Of decrease in the former is greater thar
that of the increase in the latter.
We are not an advocate of auxiliary
sheets, but we believe it would be i'm
polite and uncharitable to refuse to fra
teruize with those who adopt this system
which is all the association could do il
COuC VI OuE tplCito
exchanges are Of this class, because th'
publishers have uose time TO devote L
the local department. One damaging
feature Of the system, however, is tn,
fact that advertising agents can and d.
make contracts with the publishers o
outsides at . less rate than sth the nom
publishes of the same paper, which has
tendency to cripple pso6tabc resource
Of all provincial journals. This ques,
sion may be sithia the jurisdiction o
che association, but se hardly thint so
As Cor ourself We base no suggestion
70 mate 10 the association. We oil
Try to sttend the meeting, note ito pro
eeedings, congratulate old acquaintances
mako new ones Of those whom We onl,