The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1878-09-27
NEUSPAPER PATRONAGE.

One who knows all about our cares,
trials, hopes, disappointments and griev-
ances, has put them so pertinently into
shape, that we lay the paper before our
readers for their edif1catiou and improve
ment. 1t may prove a mirror where
certain persons may possibly see themselves
as others see them:
Many long and weary years, says he,
have forced the conclusion upon us that
the newspaper patronage is word of
many definitions, and that great majority
of mankind are either ignorant of the de.
finitiou or are dishonest in a strict biblical
sense of the word. Newspaper patronage
is composed of as many cOlOrs as a rainbow,
and is as chaugeable as the chameleon.
One man comes and subscribes for a
paper aud pays for it in advance, and goes
home and reads it with tie profound salts
faction that it is his. He hands in his ad-
vertismeut, asks the price, pays for it and
goes to his place of business and reaps the
advantage thereof. Another man says you
may put my name on your books, aud goes
off without saying a word about the pays
Time passes on and you want your money,
and want him to pay you what is honestly
due. He flies into passion, perhaps pays.
perhaps not, and orders his paper stopped.
Another man brings in a fifty cent ad
vertisement, and wants two dollar notice
given it, and if you refuse he goes off mad.
And this is called newspaper patronage.
Another man lives near you-he does
not take the paper-he didn't like the
eGitor-the paper don't exactly suit him
yet he goes regularly to his neighbors and
borrows it, and quarrels with the opinions
of the editor. Occasionally he sees an ar
tice he likes he begs or gives half dime
for the number. This is called newspaper
patronage.
Another man likes the paper and takes
a copy for his family, and pays for it, and
does all he can to &C: subscribers !; he rare
ly grumbles aud generally has cheerful
word for the editor. If any little item of
interest occurs in the neighborhood, he in
forms the editor. This is newspaper pat
ronage.
Another man has a patent and wants
you to give it a two dollar notice every
week it will be of interess to your read
ers, he says, but although knowing that it
will benefit him most of all he does not
offer to pay for it. This is called news
paper patronage.
Another mau has taken the paper for
several years, but has not paid for il, and
comes in with a four or five dollar adver-
tisement and asks you TO insert it for
nothing, because he is an old patron of
yours. This is called newspaper patronage.
Another man-"a young man about
town"-nO use of taking a paper, knows
all there is going on. By and by he gets
married, and hands in a notice with ''iust
give dozen copies" He gets them, and
when you mention pay, looks surprised
''Y GU surely don't charge for such a thingp'
And this is called newspaper patronage
Now ism newspaper patronage q curious
thing And in that great day when the
gentleman in black gets his dues, as he
! surely will, how many Uf the patrons emu
merated above will fall to his share? Nov
it will be seen that while certain kinds Of
patronage are the very life and existense
of newspaper, there are other kinds of
patronage that are more destructive than
the deadly night shade.