The Jackson standard. [volume] (Jackson C.H., Ohio) 1847-1888, 1875-01-14
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l shall divide the newspaper dead
beats into only two classes. the poor dew
lis and the mean devils. There are sub
divisions, which may notice.
The first class will subscribe for your
paper, and promise to pay you certainly
next week, or next month, or when he
gathers his corn, or when he kills his
hogs. He keeps on promising all the
time, and thus manages to run his paper
six years; but he never pays. Then you
stop his paper, and regard the claim as
lost. In this you are correct. But he is
grossly insulted. He will not speak to
you. He will avoid you on the street.
If he sees you coming to meet him he
will suddenly discover that he has
urgent business across the street, and no
matter how muddy it may be, he cuts
across to attend to his important busi-
ness. Some of these men may owe you
for advertising or job work 1t is all the
same. know a score of these men who
owe me, and who act just as have des-
cribed
Next come the second division. They
are in good circumstances. They hold
big offices, or they are wealthy farmers.
or hold some other important positions
in society. They may be divided into
three classes. The first are not so very
mean. The second are meaner, and the
third meanest. The trouble with this
to attend to so small a matter as paying
for newspaper. 1t is utterly beneath
their dignity. They pretend to look
with contempt upon the country paper
and its editor, but if they want office
they. are very anxious for the support of
the paper, provided they can get it free.
They are very sensitive if the paper
touches them up occasionally.
The first of these will never pay you if
you only dun him through the paper or
the Postoffice. But if you chance to
meet him in person and dun him, espe-
cially if you do so in company, he will
declare that he never could think of that
little matter, and he will take out his
roll of money and pay you, and perhaps
pay a year or two in advance. But if
you are so located that you never see
him, he will never pay you.
The next class comprise such men as
have plenty of property. They are able
to pay, and they know they are able, and
they know that you know they are able.
After taking the paper from one to five
years, you send them bill. That is suf-
fcient. They generally come direct to
the Office and pay up, and stop their pa
per, and with great pomposity demand a
receipt, up to that date. They will tell
you with indignation that they did not
care snap of their fingers for your pa
per; they only took it to keep it alive
they not only never read it, but they did
not even condescend to look at it. Pret
ty- soon they get their wife, or theil
daughter, or their daughter-in-law tc
subscribe for it. They would not dc
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The last and meanest of all this class
is your great, wealthy farmer. or lawyer
or railroad president, or doctor, or mem
Der of Congress, who will take your pa
per just as long as you will send it tC
him. He will never pay. You may dur
him by letter, or through the paper
marked, as often as you desire. He pay
no attention whatever to the matter
You may threaten to publish his mann
in black list; you may beg him to con
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/ persuade; it makes no difference to him.
He is too dignifed even to think Of you.
never attempted to write biography
but am going to write up few of these
men. I desire them to send me Their
photograph. Some years ago lawyer in
New York city published book called
Biographical Sketches of Eminent
Americans, by John Livingston, Atty
at-Law" He generally published the
likeness of the person whose life he thus
made immortal.
Now if these dead beats will send me
their likeness, and such other incident:
in their lives in the way of business
transactions as may give true picture
of their real character, l will work VI
the material as best l can, for their anc
my mutual benefit.
During the past fifteen years severa
thousand names appeared on my sub
scription books. The foregoing remarks
are applicable to less than one hundred
of those thousands. Nineteen out o
every twenty who have ever taken the
STANDARD are honest, honorable men ano
women as ever lived, and do not be
lieve any paper in the United States car
show list of better men and women
for honesty and intelligence.
The Ironton Journal criticizes one o
our editorials and saws: