The true northerner., 1880-02-13
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DEATH 10 THE PUBLISHER.
From the Chicago Tribune.
The revival OF good .imes-the 4" business
BOOM" so called-hss given almost every class
lft except publishers Of newspapers. Strange
as it may sound, the general advance in wages
and prices which pleases the pubic so much
has made harder Z" timos' for the press. The
price Of type has been raised, coal IS dsarer,
labor has advanced, and white paper. the lead
ing item in newspaper expense, has beea thrust
up thirty-three to fifty per cent, with threats
on the part Of the paper making combination
to put it higher mex. spring. Meanwhile, pub
fishers are charging the old price to their sub
scri5ers and the old rates for advertising con-
sequently the whole advance in the cost OF
publishing newspaper falls on the propre-
tors, who havs not fat at liberty to tax back
papers have dropped their supplements to re-
duce expenses, and Few have ventured to
raise their subscription prices. The st. Louis
morning papers have advanced their rates from
four cents copy at retail TO five cents. and by
the week have increased their charges five
cents. Papers in other cities are contemplat-
ing reduction in the size OF their sheets where
their presses will permit il. In this city, the
Daily Tribune aas omitted a part OF its supple
ments, and may have to drop more OF them il
the price Of paper keeps on advancing. but will
retain its old price. The Times, as Q choice OF
evils between reduction OF size and an in
crease OF rates, has advanced its price one cent
day, retailing hereafter at six cents instead Of
Ave. and raising its delivery price to city sub
scribers five cents per week. charging thirty
c sn.s instead OF twenty five cents. In making
the announcement Of the advance, the publish
or says that the cost OF printing the Times is
at the rate Of 100000 per snnum more than
it wa year ago. Judging from Our own ex-
perience, this statement is not FOR wide OF the
truth. All the great dailies will be obliged
either to curtail their size or increase their
price IL they would escape serious loss. Singu-
lar IS it may appear to the unrsHecting reader,
the more business booms and prices initiate.
the worse it is for the publishers. Like the
fable in hsop, what is sport to the reader 10
death to the publisher.
NcREAsEs rHE PRICE TO sUBsoIrBERs.
From the Chicago Times.
The price OF white paper (such as the Times
is printed upon) has advanced fully fifty per
cent, and the cost otherwise of making the
printed sh set has materially advanced. The
quantity Of paper consumed by the Times is so
great that the advance in price Of that article
alone makes difference OF near unto 100000
per year. The Times does not care to run at q
loss. and it does not believe its patrons desire
that it should. The alternatives presented TO
it are, fret, to run ss loss; second to reduce
the cost OF making the printed sheet. involving
OF course, deterioration OF It's value a. .
newspaper; and third, . slight increase in the
price st which the printed sheet shall be sold
The Times has chosen the last.
HOW TO RxDucI THE PRICE OF PAPER.
From the Louisville Courier Journal
We print elsewhere in this issue an article
from the Chicago Tribune on the oppressive
tariff rates on materials used in the manufac-
ture OF paper and on foreign paper. We agree
with cur Chicago contemporary that 1t is time
that tax should be greatly reduced as TO manu-
factured paper. aud be removed ~ 10 p,pere
makers materials. The recent advance IN the
price OF paper may bo fun for the protected
manufacturers. but IL is onerous to the con-
sumers OF paper. Newspapers. for instance,
cannot well De advanced in price, bns their