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

copy ola Rhode Island paper, and bale
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
fcation, intensified by the apparent
slight involved in the comparison But;
matters were not so bad with us after III
when a just comparison was instituted
The Rhode Island paper was a 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 publication OF Il daily paper and Il
weekly. lie did not tax . INTO nc :,unt
th.t the Rho lc Island town anl IT,.
Georgia town are very differently const
tutcd. In Northern cites there arc very
few readers who do not ply for their
I paper The reverse is true Of tic S,ut h.
If merchants and subscribers n this sec
ton supported their papers with halt til J
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,
>M@He has been sharply brought into
antagonism with ahis problem answer
for us. lie says: sThe newspapers OF
the North are fourishing with their
!. customary vigor Despite the panic
and hard times the people read and ad
vertise, and pay for both, while the
Southern papers arc daily waning. This
cannot be attributed TO lack of ability
or enterprise in the management If
hcrn Journals, 'nr they are fully up
with the times, and will compare Favor
"oV WIN the most successful papers IN
! the country. 1t cannot be denied that.
q either from want of Indifference. tie
Southern whites, in the propottion th
3 their number, do not read a} extensively
as they do in tie North anl " st, n /
= glance at the P pcrs OF the respective
sections will show that Southern mner
ch"nts, with 2 few exceptions, do not - p
preciate the value and importance Of al
vertising. But there is stillnnother
. trouble with when The majority of
Southern Journals have to contend, and
9 that isV theIa credit system. aiA dis
tinguished journalist Of this Stat,
assured us lately that he;lost yearly
4 thirty-three dpera cent. of his subscrin
}: tons, because. people neglected to pay
3 after being .-usted. Now no busino IS
, can stand this loss, and particularly
newspaper the greater. part Of whose
value lies % in its ,soJd will, While the
credit system sis, praoticel, Southern
d journals will continue to be impecuyous
and down at the heels. - So far as we are
concerned, we have decided on the pro
per course aud shall follow it out,
though we did not do so till our loss
o from Indifferent subscribers amounted
to many thousand dollars Our & coourse, Oh 81,
meets with opposition, and, strange to
j say, some merchants in this city, whose
5 interests it would be ;to' eencoufage cash
q payments, airi$hly refusc. to take "a our
paper if we do not trust 'thtc,ni!, on the
p plea that they arc s"''d' for thtir debts
Of c"u,sc We humor stho'c men by b&g9
sing them to lake our paper on their
own terms! lh,.rez seems ato be, an i'm
, preston in the rnin,Isof some uhinlorai
cd people that The choapestiautl e,siest
business is thtof publishing aip,per :
indeed, that 'theyo rather couTphhentla
publisher BY readn.. his paper, witl'the
most indefinite sidcni utaeyer payu. aor
ltsa Snid IL wonderfully intelligent wo
man to II friend OF our j yes eylayd
'WcD3 lsrleclaroHsrIhu idea Yt,that lei
low reierrif'ga' toi,us) sn,ukih' atlartiu
right inl our n'i,ist,by glVina qIalvisa
| cant stan it quite! ,yjsnoD aidj oi
This nlddndy 'sinotoasis ppts general;
bu,A tin'rcb lis isae classlo OF s.nwspal(er
spong ers that reconehc tbairseehciesc C sss
to theiraaprnplinrscnnQ,irtdi ~ nut paying
us 7by arguing tlnaw,s .re ,settips yieh
/ NV ,nivsiinI7 ppoDle dshG kindly snur,. ,th,n