The Lake Charles echo. [volume] (Lake Charles, Parish of Calcasieu, La.) 1876-1898, 1879-10-04
Arkansas Democrat

I
The cash system is the only one
that will work in the newspaper busl-.
ness--or any other business. But ut
is especially true TINT the newspaper
rmnst be conducted on q strict 'cash
1 basis in order to make even q small
margin of profit, bare living. Vet
while this il the case there is no busl-
ness which is so often conducted on
such loose, slip-shod principles. There
lis no business where ''lBoney down
is SO important and none Where credit
lis so easy. People do not hesitate to
90 in debt to the newspaper man and
when made no debt is SO lightly re-
garded. How easy 1t is for the eoun
try editor to get a thousnnd or Two
names on his book at two dollars a
wear, and how hard at the end of the
4 wear to collect even a numbered dollars
of the money. There is no debt
/ which can be incurred which results in
so much good to the debtor, and none
where so little sense of obligation is
1 felt towards the creditor. 1t is a debt
that gives food to the people--a debt
4 that supplies the very life blood OF the
4 body polite And yet this debt--th
little paltry sum of one or two dollars
la year for the newspaper--goes IN
paid, while nearly every other obllga
-Ition is met with ;ilacrity and prompt
mess. What is the remedy for this
acrying evil, which keeps newspaper
men bound hand and foot by pinching
/ pogertye
The remedy is to credit no more
forever. The remedy is the cash sys
Item.
4 The Sun NEvRR SETS ON THE UNI
TED STATEs.-lSew people arc aware
THAT the proud boast Of Englishmen
THAT the sun never sets on the British
empire is equally applicable to the
4 United States. Instead Of being the
western limit Of the Union, San Fran
cisco is about midway between the
Ifarthest Aleutiau isle, acquired by our
purchase of Alaska, and Eastport,
Maine. Our territory extends through
Ill07 degrees Of Longitude, or "a degrees
|imore than half way round the globe.
1.-THE Rocky Mountain Presbyterian, in
commenting ont hisfact, says: ssWhenl
1.-the SIM is giving its goodnight kiss to
our western-most isle, on the confines
lSof Behring's Sea, it is already flooding
1.-the fields and forests of Maine with its
morning light, and In the eastern part
of that State is morethan an honr high
\ AT the very moment when the Aleutian
fisherman, warned by the approaching
shades of night, is pulling his canoe
toward the shore, the woed-chopper of
Maine is beginning 70 make the forest
echo with the stirringhnusic of his ax.r
IL
\ HooD's GHILpREN.Ihe Hood sub
fscription fund in Georgia first started
IlIby the Atlanta q onstitution, is taking
well with the people, and the minimum
fund proposed from that State, $IQ,-
LOCO, will be raised without difficulty.
General Toombs sends Sl0O and prom
Uses to repeat it every year as long as
he lives, and there is q disposition on
every hand to swell the contribution
Mrs Norman Webb, intthe meantime,
wife Of the general superintendent Of
1.-THE Selma, Rome and dalton railroad,
offers to take the youngest twin-gifIs
and raise them mp as lherown.
Thirteen colured boys demanded
admission to the Lincoln dIlls } High
School, and on being refused, thrcat-
ened Ito take legal measures to-
,secure the same rights as white chill
dren. The school board admits their
lrightOf admission to the Common
schools. but claims that the State
lSupreme Court has held that the
town authorities can bar them from
the high school Bosier Banner.
FHgOAE asExHG0.