Connecticut western news., 1874-12-18
nns mena Hend Question.

There has lately been Ste"' ~ by the press about deadheads. we '".n~
 many of our contemporaries entirely ,oss
 sight of the proposition upon "n'cu a 'Ao
 remands on this subject should be oaseo'
 which is-What is dead heao
 answer is 6 simple one: he wno oo'A'"'' through importantly, son'eth'n9 J0' "o ,,
 ;no whether a puff in newspaper rA''- road or steamboat pass, or tnea'Fe' 'on
 oort ar lecture ticket, or any other 'hing universally puid for by decent people. No" o,,, editors, because they receive compll- n,an,srv tickets Of passes, be properly clsssed with the great army of headheads- those contemptably mean creatures "no are ever on tue alert to get somethi"9 TOT not1ino7 We unhesitatingly and most em- pba,ically answer, No! aud do so on the rrourd that every courtesy shown an cal tor. in the way of tickets and passes, Is maid for at least ten times over in the way of editorial or other adYertisement-adver' Using which would, in the ordinary course of business, cost the parties who receive 1t about twenty times the price of the few tickets they bestow, generally with an air of great liberality and as though they were conferring a special favor upon the editor, while all the time they expect "tip-top notice" before, and favorable comment after their "show, # perchance they run one, or numberess puffs of -four railroad, or our line of steambosts." if connected with either of the latter. Every editor in the land would be richer in purse and more independeut in criticism if he should pay his own way wherever he goes, and charge full rates-so much per line-:or all pulls and notices But those who give compli- mentary tickets are too wise to allow such & course to be adopted. They know that nine out of every ten editors they "extepd the courtesies of the press " to, will in their good natured way, liberally buff" and thus advertise their various en terprises-that they will for one or two dollars worth of tickete devote at least five or ten dollars worth of space to commen
 datory reference to the entertainment oi the "Spokeshave Dramatic Club" ol "Billy Browns Burlesque Buffers," ol ''Jerry Jenkins Lecture" or ''Mdle, Sing songs Concert, land do not fail to serd ir the "Complimentaries." There is a clas' of dcsdheads who ought to be despised by every one-a set of sneaks who worn themselves into the good Rraces of every body connected with shows, lines of travel
 etc. :, and If they cannot be deadheads il any other way, pass themselves off a members of the press," even going so fla many of them, as to say they are editor of such and such paper. Every newspa per of character and influence suffers nor ! or less from such vermin. No profession
 or business is more beset by headhesd
 than the press, and probably the theatre
 come next on the list. Not week passe
 but an editor is solicited to give this
 ] that enterprlae favorable notice-one day a 'sfew lines" are asked for in behalf of
 "our church ;" then an amateur dramat- ic society wants ''real nice notice, writ
 ten in your very best stye." another day John Smith calls ant says he is about tt , open giu mill Che calls it sample room
 and would like 8 'bangup' puff; ther Rev. Dr. Dryasdust must have his sermon opened regularly Rev. Dr. Mild desire a special mention made of bis dOnatior
 party Miss Flora Flyaway drops in with a preitily written personal notice; San Simpkins wants his wife advertised becaus. she has left his 'bed and boArd;' and last, on publication day, when you are extr' busy and have not a moment to spare, in pops the fellow who bores you, in spite o
 all your 'gentle hints." for half an hour ol
 more with description of his patent sp
 paratus for taking the stings out of bees, , and which he would like to have noticed
 to the extent of half column, "because 1
 is of general interest to the public" Then there is that class of deadhesds, with
 which most of the country press Is afflicted
 composed of non paying subscribers,
 vast army of dead beats of the first water who subscribe for every paper which vii put their name on its list without pay, ane they never mean to pay. There should be , s radical reformation ln this matter; th'
 sooner it is accomplished the better it vii
 be for the press, and we will call upon ou brethren to use their utmost endeayors tt sQuelch the deadheads. s.-Neto York Era.