The Jackson standard. [volume] (Jackson C.H., Ohio) 1847-1888, 1875-12-23


advance, he would know just how and |
when to invest from year to year; but as |
the business il now conducted, he must |
depend upon the crop of corn, the |
wheat the hogs the food. the |
'drouth, the price of wool. &c; and we |
think there is more in the last-named |
cause for non-payment than all the other
causes enumerated The sooner the
publisher refuses to have the wool pulled
over his eyes by parties who could buy
and sell him, the better it will be for his
| own interests, and the interests of the
wool pullers, too; for we are certain that
any editor could produce q better paper
with his debts paid, and he the owner of
a bank account. than he possibly can
were he expecting the sheriff to seize up
on his Office before the next number
could be issued, as many are wearing out
both body and brain looking into the fu-
ture. with just such expectations at the
present time
mo arguments that we could possibly
use speak so loud in favor of no credit
system in the publication of newspapers
as the present financial condition of ma
ny talented and worthy publishers we
know of, and we trust that they. for their
own sakes, and that an publishers for
the good credit and honor of the art
preservative.' will adopt this system.
1--WE know of no one thing that would
please US more, than to see every paper
on our exchange list come to US within
the next month with CASH IN ADVANCE
notice at the head of their columns We
repeat it is our most earnest convic-
ticn that if this plan is universally adop-
ted, the financial troubles of the printer
are at an end. Try it.
1t might be thought an easy matter to
come at once the cash in advance system.
But there are difficulties in the way.
Here, for instance, / have FIVE hundred
to one thousand subscribers who have
taken the paper for twenty years, and
who are just as sure to pay as the sun is
to rise. Some of them pay promptly at
the commencement of the year; some at
the end of the year; some in two years;
some pay for two, three or FIVE years in
advance Now if would demand pay
in advance from these, my very best sub
scribers. perhaps half of them would be-
come "miffed, and not take the paper
at all
If these prompt paying subscribers
would only consider the matter careful
ly, they would see that it would be to
their advantage as we'll as mine. to con-
foI m to general rule by which no dead
heads would be carried. And it is no
use to establish a rule unless it be en-
forced in all cases.
One year ago established the rule to
exact pay in advance from all subscribers
who reside outside of Jackson county.
| have enforced this rule with some half
dozen exceptions, where special arrange
ments have been made with old friends;
but after this year, the rule will positive
, ly be enforced in all cases. few, among
the very best, became offended, and did
not renew; but my list outside of the
county is larger to-day than it was one
year ago:
While l believe that no paper in the
State has list of better, or more honest
subscribers than the Standard, yet lose
considerable amount every year.
have owned the office for twelve years
and half, and during that time hund-
reds of dollars have accumulated upon
subscription, which 1 will never get. All
the blank paper upon which these thou
sands of Standards have been
printed, has been paid for,
and all the ink, labor, and everything
else, have been settled up to the present
time. While the paper has cleared over
twelve hundred dollars each year, some
years over two thousand dollars. 1 have
nearly all the time been cramped for
money, and have paid large sums by
| way of interest. If l had now what is
Justly my dues, would have large sum
in bank.
There is another evil under the sun;
! the Standard is the only paper of its size
and character in the State that is sent q
whole year, postage paid, for dollar and
half yet there are many who take ad-
: vantage of my advance rates. l offer the
paper five years for five dollars in ad
vance. This, at compound interest, is
about equal to $l.50 per year. Now an
old subscriber who has taken the paper
for quarter of century, and paid for
it every year, comes and says that he in
J tends to take it as long IS he lives, and
! why not let him have it by paying one
QOllaf eacn year!
!, But to cut the matter short, l will
state my deliberate conclusion of the
t whole matter. will keep standing 81
the head of the column for the year 1876
! something like the following AFTER
!, January l, 1876, no new name will be
) placed upon the subscription list of the
Standard unless paid for in advance
One dollar and half per year will be
charged in all cases, and no reduction
will be made in any case to clubs, or or
account of more than one year bein,
paid for in advance.
: On the 1st of January, 1877, the nam'
of every subscriber who has not paid il
= advance, will be stricken from the list
and thereafter no credit for subscription
will be given, in any case.
Now friends, do not ask me to violat,
the above rule, because am going to tr!
D it, for one year at least, to see how it will
/ work. There will then be no losses OF
either side, NO dunning, no more temp
, tation to publish the names of the delin
: quents.
= During the balance of this month
will still take FIVE dollars for Eve years
I or twenty dollars for club of tWent,
q subscribers. On the first of next month
y this offer will end, and so will end, a
9 that time, my patience with some of my
: old subscribers, who will only receive the