Northern tribune. [volume] (Cheboygan, Mich.) 1875-1885, 1881-09-10

will be published free, should any men,
Der of that household die"
You will find this class of papers con-
tinually putting the business men of
their town. Every new stock of goods
that arrives gets from a stickful to half
a column local, which at five or ten cents
line would run from 50 to S.; but if
the editor of that paper calls upon the
merchant so pulled for spool of thread
or Faber with which to write another
notice, he is requested to come down
forthwith with the cash. He gives a 80
cent notice for nickle cigar, and 81
notice for box of 10-cent Strawberries.
We remember that last fall when apples
were so plenty that farmers were feeding
them to the hogs or allowing them to rot
upon the ground, the class Of newspapers
OF which we speak would give dollar
notice any week for peck of the finest
apples they had ever SEEM The butcher,
the baker, the shoemaker, landlords,
dress makers, and milliners are all
pulled aud noticed, and having in that
way received all that they desire by way
OF notice in their several callings from
the newspaper, they very cOOlly inform
the man who has been tickling their
vanity and advertising their wares
gratis, that advertising dOsen't pay, and
that they cannot afford to help him by
way of donation. He is made to feel that
all advertising bestowed is given only
for the purpose of keeping him alive, and
not because IL pays; and many a poor
fellow, grinding along in this rut, begins
after long years of successful toll, to
feel as if an advertisement placed in his
paper does not pay, and he soon places
the estimate upon himself and his bus
mess that others have, and continues to
rattle away, like bOne-cadverous lean
and hungry, looking more like dog, in
the high and elevated position he is sup
posed to hold, than like man.
This class of publishers are a great
injury to the honest, well-meaning pub
fishers, and food for sharks, rascals and
unprincipled, irresponsible advertising
agents. For what they should pay for
two or three squares, they can contract
from half to column of space, and
then, perhaps, pay in nickle chrOmos,
pewter spoons, or, as is often the case,
"The merchants who started in with
these publishers, and who had at the 60
in about an equal amount Of capital,
have in many cases built themselves pal
atial homes, and have, by the prosperity
which has blessed their business, placed
themselves and their families beyond
want. Many Of those engaged in trifling
trade have grown rich, while the news
paper man, who has given his voice and
his energies for years to defend the place,
build up all its Industries, stands to-day
not far from where he was when the race
began; and Notwithstanding his hair has
silvered DER, his step become uncertain,
and his arm unsteady and weak, he is
obliged in the evening of life to tOtter on
in the Management of business which.
without his constant, watchful care,
day by day, would not provide the bread
of life. We know many instances of this
character, and cannot but feel, as we
look the ground over, that it is because
the newspaper man is not half paid for
what he does, Or because he gives So for
everv 81 received"