Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1877-12-07


sentiment assigned me this evening:
Pledged but to truth, to liberty and law,
no favor sways us, and no fear shall
awe" l am overwhelmed with the cor
dial congratulations of virtue.loving
public, who are sadly dissatisfied with
existing publications, land are yearning to
positively impoverish themselves for the
purpose Of sustaining model press. y
The very frrt man that applies to have
an advertisement inserted is wholesale
liquor dealer, who, having learned that
my paper starts out with very fine cir
culation in the country, is ready to adj
vertise his stock of wines, Whistles,
brandies, ETC., at the rates of advertising
published at the head of my paper: say,
for an eight Of column, double width,
$40 week, $35 month, or $l2O a year.
But here is an opportunity to put my
high toned moral principles into prac
tice. l am temperance man, and DO
not believe in assisting to extend the
sale of intoxicating liquors; l am con-
Quoting paper which mo favor sways," "
and refuse to insert that advertisement,
and bravely cast that 1920 year over
my shoulder. So likewise with all adver
tisments of quack doctors, cancer speci-
alists, fortune tellers, patent medicines
Of whose virtues have my doubts, ten
pin alleys, tobacco, cigars, &c. The
next man to enter my office is good,
moral, temperate, Christian brother, to
whom l relate what have done. He
warmly commends my devotion to prin
ciple. 1t is so different, he says, SO
much more admirable, than the course of
that representative of venal and cor
rupt press across the street, that is
ready to puff anything for pay, from
Lady Alice to Flannery's Orchestra; and
he assures me of the support OF the bet
ter element in community. tell him
am very glad of that; for have been
figuring up, and find to run my paper
costs 800 a week; my income had | &C
cepted the liquor and quack medicine
advertisements ,oouldhare been $43O a
week, and the paper could have man
aged to live; but mithout them the income
is but 1915 week, leaving a deficit of
S175 a week-$5OO month-6,OOO a
year-which at the end of two years will
have eaten up my $4,000 invested, and
leave me stranded, bankrupt, $4,000 in
debt, and the moril and high toned citi-
zens of Dubuque without an organ in
the shape of model newspaper Now he
and they must rally to my support. My
friends tells me he will do it-they will
all hasten with alacrity and joy to do
that. But-just now his errand is to
have me put into the paper notice
that his church is going to have festi.
val to raise funds to carpet the seats; and
as my paper is published in the interest
of the moral and religious portion of the
community, he is sure l will do it for
nothing [ offer to do it for half price
to contribute as much toward making
public the announcement of the forth
coming festival as all the rest of the
congregation combined; but somehow
this generosity on my part does not
seem to satisfy him. He understood
the arrangement when started out to
publish high toned, moral model news
paper to be, that was to do everything
for all good causes for nothing except
love of goodness and virtue, and that
good and virtuous people ,were absolved
from doing anything For me! Now /
announce myself ready to become the
editor of heightened, moral, model
newspaper right here in the city OF Du-
buoue. as soon as lean find a business
manager who can run it on high-toned,
moral principles-that is, secure an in
come of $500 week by refusing the
money of sinners, and working for saints
for nothing! Because the paper with
which I am connected has come too
nearly up to this model for its own
fin ancial success, heard a very pious
man this very afternoon denouncing it
as trucking and venal. In imagination /
see that good man dying and his pure
spirit winging its way to the gates OF
paradise. st. Peter, standing at the
gate. enquiries, who's there?' He
gives his name. II don't recollect ever
hearing that name before" says Peter;
what was your occupation?" Il was a
preacher, and before l died had charge
of church little ways out of Dubuque.
"What did you ever do in the interest of
virtue and justice and humanity, that en-
titles you to an entrance here?' We'll,
my main business, for the year before |
died, was denOuncing the Dubuque Times
because it refused to send me the paper
for nothing, and then after having adver-
tised fairs, festivals, &c, to the amount
of over 5000 for my church, for nothing,
at last, for one of them, had the insuffer-
BILE insolencc to charge half price. >
And then in imagination l hear st. Pc
ter saying unto him, You poor, miser-
able, self-righteOus, stingy little soul
go to h-l!' Seriously, not that favor
sways or fear awes, is the most demon
alizing influence with a newspaper; but
the knowledge obtained by sad exper-
fence that sinners are as rule the most
generous and whOle-souled, and those
who assume to be the saints par excel
lence are the most selfish and penuriOus
of mankind. As in this city, liquor
dealers and others whom we all agree
are violatOrs Of the laws of God and
man, give from 500 to $500 each
towards building new churches or sup.
porting preachers, while the whole tenn
perance army of this city of $25, 900 in
habitants cant raise money enough t.
pay the rent for Brunskill's Hall for thu
Good Templars to meet ii, 80 the entire
support received from distinctively TEN
perance men in Dubuque would not de
fray the running expenses OF one OF tn
Dubuque dailies for three days. AM
the longer aud more conspicuous tn
robe of righteousness a man wears--a
a general rule-the less he feels calle'
upon to do for the newspapers, and tn
more he demands that newspaper d.
(for nothing) for him and his pet causes
When these things cease to be thus
when good men, engaged in good causes
will learn that if they want the supper
of newspaper they must support tn
newspaper, or it must either seek SUP
port from the other class in the commu
nifty, or perish and leave the field to
"venal and corrupt press in short
when the moral portion Of any commu
nifty will support a mode! press
they can have it and not till them.
Prev ENTIoN is better than cur