Jamestown alert. [volume] (Jamestown, Stutsman County, D.T. [N.D.]) 1878-1882, 1880-11-02
We Want to be Ilnder.tool.

We want any who feel that
The Alert has received from them one
penny for which they have not received in
return an equivalent, to walk straightway
over to this office with their bills. We
would like to have 1t distinctly under.
stood that We propose and expect to pay
for what we get and likewise to get pay
for what we do. We aim to conduct
our paper on business principles and not on
principles of beggary or charity. We do
not work 18 hours, gentle reader, out Of
every "a, including the holy Sabbath, for
the mere tun Of the thing; neither are
we working for Office or glory. Our
paper is our capital and business, and we
try to attend to it and print good paper
attends TO his lumber yard-to make
money. We have TO pay cash for every
type we use and every sheet of paper we
get. Is it fair, then, for Mr. Winslow or any
one else, to assume thai we should not
realize from our labor or Investments
The Alert has been literally patronized
since it fell into our hands; we have
made little money. We'll, where has is
gone to? 1t has gone into presses and
material, every dollar of it,and every issue
of The Alert proves the assertion. No
man, woman. or Child ever did us kind
ness tuat We did not ap ,reciate and those
who know Us best, know that as rule,
we do not forget them. When we came
here, we came as strangers. We
wanted to buy the Alert; we could do so
tor i've hundred dollars cash down. ALI
the money We had was one hundred and
seventy five dollars We had no friends
or even sn acquaintance within hundred
miles OF jamestown. Who were the men
to come forward and help 1.-The boy outy"
E T. Wells and Anton Klaus backed
us to the extent Of two hundred
and fifty dof:ars and John j. Nelrling tor
the balance, and with out penny in our
pockets we pulled off our coat and COM
mence the work of rcsurrccting one efthe
worst played out literary wrecks ever
known in the shape of newspaper. All
We had left us by our predecessors in the
way of patronage was 42 paid-up subscri-
bcrs and the bare column rules. We have
by careful management succeeded in pay
ing our debts and adding one thousand
dollars worth of new material to the Office
Is not the county equally benefited! We
propose to continue to put every dollar
we earn out of tue Office, into the Office,
until it shall be second to no other paper
in Dakota. There are people in this
world who are so completely selfish that
they can not bear to see prosperity crown
any ones eff rts hat their own. If there
is anoth man in jamestown who has
Put in more hours Of solid toll during the
past year. than we have, and received the
amou It of insults aud cursing we have in
,eturn, we would like to see him. It's
worth something to be scapc-goat for a
whcle community, and we do not propose
to efficiate in that capacity for nothing.
We do not feel worried on account of
our subscription list. We are printing
to-day fifty quires, gain Of over eleven
hundred IN one year. Those who are
disposed to kick eau keep right on kick.
ing and we will continue do Is we please.
and that will be to publish paper that
will command patronage, and not beg it.