The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1875-12-23

ADVANCE PA Y FOR NEWSPAPERS.
The following letter from farmer
calls for the remarks followingi it:

The following letter from farmer
calls for the remarks following it:
ra7 MENDOZA, ILL, Nov. q, 1875.
Editor Pomeroys Democrat:
would like your paper for a year, and
you may send it TO me if you do not ask
pay In advance My credit is good, and
do not pay for anything till receive it.
have read several numbers of your pa
per lately; my wife and children like it;
and, il you will send it on the above
terms, send it along. do not know why
editors require pay in advance. If they
we're honest themselves, and were not
trickey, they would not consider other
men dishonest and refuse them credit.
.m Yours, s. G, T.
We are sorry that circumstances COM
pei us to decline entering the name Of
our correspondent on the books with
those who are subscribers for and read
ers of the Democrat If the man who
writes us, that We may send to him this
paper, one year, if we will give him
credit, will sit down where he can be
easy so he will understand our argument,
we will try to explain this matter.
We ask advance pay from all subscri-
bers, because we have not the money
needed to furnish paper each week, and
To pay the postage in advance, to nearly
10000 subscribers, residing in all the
States and Territories of the Union.
Where credit is given in such broad
cast manner, the publisher loses. Each
subscriber says to himself that his SUBJ
scription will not be missed; the dollar
or two he owes is of little consequence;
that the editor can get along for week,
month, or year, or forever, without his
subscription, and so he lets the matter
20 by default; and the editor, instead of
HAVING his mind on his editorial 1C0rk, has it
slitted into very shreds, pulled out like a
huge spiders web and stretched from
pole to pole, SO that always on mental
rack and in doubt as to his income and
the result of his business, he loses his
grip as writer, and between the hun
dreds or thousands 6fstakes to which he
is tied, falls to the ground. A man
might as we'll make lovS,with live wasp
under his shirt, as to edit paper when
he has something besides editing to think
OF. oma
Besides, no man is obliged to take this
paper. "We may send it to our cores
pondentl If q man derives no benefit
from this paper we do not wish him to
take it. If it is not worth to him and his
family and to the cause of fpublic decency
all it costs, he should not take it. 1t
costs US more of work, of thought and
bother, than it costs any one hundred
subscribers.
But why does not s. G. T. carry his
ideas farther and apply them to home
market2 '' '.." '
He married wife some years ago, and
doubtless paid the minister for perform
ing the ceremony. Why did he not wait
till his wife was worn out-till he had
the use and benefit other and her com
panionshiptill the year ofher life expired
before he paid for her2 His credit is
good 0h g G
Perhaps he occasionally purchases
box of pills from druggist. He should
never pay for them till they have all
been used. Will he sell us his farm and
wait till we have used it up before he
asks us for pay? 1t may be that he oc-
casionalIy goes to a circus; if he does he
should never pay in advance for admjs-
sion tickets. The other day we had oc-
casion to ride from New York to Chicago
and actually paid for a passage ticket the
day before we used it wholly or even in
part, I'VE had to pay in advance for it!
On the envelope that brought the let
ter of our correspondent was three cent
stamp. .Wonderifhe paid for that stamp
in ad ance, and If he did, why he did
not write to the government that he was
perfectly good, and that if his letter was
carried to its destination he would then
pay for the transportation? We do not
demand that any man should take this
paper. The men who sell us paper de-
mand cash for what they sell us, and
they receive it. We demand cash for
the paper after our work has been added
to the blank stock we had to pay for
But s. g.. 7. need not pay yearly in ad-
vance. He can write to us every week,
and send five cents in each letter, and We
will send him the paper by the week, ii
that will be cheaper or more convenient
A few weeks ago DR. Eldridge, of Elmi-
ra, sent to us $l1 to pay for the paper to
be sent to him for FIVE years. He said it
was easier to subscribe for five years at
one time than to have to keep track of
his subscription from year to year, write
letters, and be bothered. aI,N ,w,
The littleness of s. g. I. would annoy
US if all men were like him. The liber-
ality Of DR.. Eldridge encourages US. 1t
sustains US in more ways than one.
Thousands of our readers make haste to
anticipate our wants and needs, by not