The Orangeburg news. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1867-1875, 1874-05-02
The Trials Of Journalism. 6,
-[From the Constitutionalist. !

copy of a Rhode Island paper, and babe
as observe the kind Of Journals there
was published in New England town no no
larger than Augusta We glanced at
the paper with feeling akin to morti
ficaton, intensified by the apparent
slight involved in the comparison But
matters were not so bad with us after III
when just comparison was instituted.
The Rhode Island paper was weekly
Our paper is'a daily, and its Sunday
and weekly editions, sotar as the liter
AIRY contents are concerned, can afford t,
stand the test of successful contrast
But the, Rhode Island paper certainly
had the advantage in advertisements
1t never seemed to occur to our friend
that there is Il marvellous difference in
the .publ'catlon OF a daily paper and Il
weekly. lie did not tax. Into nc :ount
th,t the Rho c Island town anl th..
Georgia town arc very differently con>ti
tutcd. In Northern cites there are very
few readers who do not Ply ror their
! paper the reverse is true Of the S,ut h
IF merchants and subscribers iu this sec
ton supported their papers with half til :.
promptness and punctuality that the
same classes at the North support their
local journals, The newspapers of the
South would equal those Of the region
beyond us But what is the exacttruth
Of the whole matter? Let Mai. Calhoun.
the proprietor of the Columbus Enquier,
%|a has been sharply brought into
antagonism with this problem answer
for us. He says: sThe Newspapers Of
the North are hourishns with their
: customary vigor Despite the panic
and hard times the people read and ad
vertise, and. pay for both, while the
Southern papers are daily waning This
cannot be attributed to u lack Of ability
or enterprise in the mana cement #
Southern Journals, :"r they are:ully up
with the times. and viii compare f,vo'l
aoy win the m"st successful papers IN
the country. 1t cannnt be denied tha;
' either from want Of Indifference, tie
Southern whites, in the. proportion th
their number, do MT read rs extensively
as they do in the North anl W tst., an /
a glance at the P .pcrs or the respective
sec, ions will show that Sonthcrn mer
(, chants, with few exceptions, do not y p
precate the value and Importance Of al
yertising But there is stilnnother
3 trouble with Which the majority OF
Southern Journals have to contend, and
? that @is1 ,hero credit system. IA dis
tiuguished journalist Of this Stat,
assured'7us lately that he lost yearly
4 thirty-three dperd cent. of his subscrp
! tons, because people neglected to pay
after being trusted. Now no busino IS
can stand this loss, and particularly, Il
4 newspaper the greater, par, of whose
value lies q in it's god will. While the
credit system is, prac,icel, Southern
q journals will continue to be ,impccuyous
I and down at the heels. o. So far as we are
concerned, we have decided on the pro
per course and shall tolow it, out,
= though we did not. do so till our loss
a from indifferent subscribers amoun Cd
to many thousand dollars Our COZ course s. {
d meets with opposition, and, strange to
j say, some merchants in this city, whose
; interests it. would be 10 Encourage cash
pay yments, airi<hly refuse ia take our
paper if we do nat' trust thteln,I, on the
/. plea that they are snn'd' for tbtir1lcbts.
Of c"u'sc . We hunhor 'tlso;c incn by B&g,
sing them to take our paper Oh their
own ,erns.s I'll, res seems sto be an i'm
, PRESTON in The IninIstof some uniniorn
cd people that the cReapestland easiest
business IS ~tlirtot publishing ap,per =
indeed, that they rather conTplment,a a
publisher by rcadins hispnptr, with the
most Indefinite idcni haeyer paying aor
it. q Said ro wDndariullysgi Intelligent wo
man to aatriends Oh our s yes erilay !.
sWci; l lariechro. .o1The ideg yt;that iel
low lreterrihgsI soils) ,muk in \. Iarsip
right ini ur0niist,hyo glvins oEalyise
| cant stan it quite! .yssHo) sid3 81
"Hh plddady 'snotoqais upts general
bp,h tinrcbis ;s;ie class OF hawspsIier
spong ers that recuncile theireehcie C sss
to theirsspropinrscu scun dhicts ~ nut paying
US nby arguing thnawe hreB Bettips sieh
by udVisi,,gpeople aRbG k,id% cmpl,athau
II III rsnl uasl aYnf thcnrEcntrmhSs ni.Snnth