The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1883-08-30

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THURSDAY. AUGUST 20. 1883.
The Cane Growers & Manufactur-
ers' Association Of Minnesota desire to
call the attention Of all cane growers
to the fact that q meeting for the pur-
pose of enlarging the field of that in
d"stry and consequently of the organi-
zatien itself, by taking in new men,
bers, will take place in Union Hall,
Mankato, Sept. 7th. at 2 =. m. Turn
out, cane growers, and attend to your
interests by going. Further particu-
lars may be had by addressing G.. II.
Jefferson, Secretary Of the Association
at MaSkats.
Lemars papers mention that J. T.
Glover, of Sibley, will probably be a
prohibition candidate for state senator
in. the Lsmars. SHIELD en- Sibley district.
Mr.. Barrett, Of Sheldon. ana Mr.. Rev,
of Lemars, are party nominees. Mr..
Pew for license, and Mr.. Barrett with
u leaning that way.
"c0-0PERATIVE'' NEWSPAPERS.
We have been informed that Post
master General W. q. Gresham, has
about decided that newspapers known
rs ''patent Outsides," Il" ''insides," or
-'cO-Operative,' - ETC., shall I've excluded
from the mails as second class publi-
cations. The reason, we understand,
10 that the papers being similarly priIt-
ed On one side in the large cities, and
thousands Of country publishers. who
make up and print the other half of the
leper with home news and local adver-
tisments is sufficient evidence that such
papers are not self-sustaining. There
are about fOar thousand such publica-
items issued in this country, and if the
ruling above referred to should 90 into
effect, propably three thousand "co- op-
eratives' of the smallest circulation,
influence and local advertising patron.
age would necessarily suspend publica.
tiOn, the other one thousand papers,
however. of the brtter class Of scoop
eratives," would lie greatly strengthen
I'd and conld then afford to publish, tho
whole of their paper. So that in the
end, the press, advertisers and the pub
lie, would lie benefited. We shall lie
prepared to give further particulars in
next months Issue of this paper.
Tie above is from Philadelphia pa
per. It shows how little eastern cabi-
nst and other officials knew about the
lnetl,ods and needs of the Great West
A majority Of western newspapers use
"patents," and they are Legitimate, es-
tablished newspapers, representing the
communities in which they are pub
]isled.
If there is any truth in the statement,
it shows the lamentable ignorance or
the corruption of the Postmaster Cen
rral. Tens Of thousands If dollars are
invested in these ''!atents." and thous-
,,.<ls of men and women are employed
iu issuing them.
The reason given is too weak and
Ninlsy for any use. Because country
publishers use Il uniform outside or in
side, that is, uniform in their general
nrws matter, is no more III indication
that they are not self-sustaining than
it is that the daily papers are not self
sustaining, for they use the same news
or telegraphic dispatches over the
Whole country. Country editors have
~ good IL right to combine to get uni
farm news rs city editors have to get
associated press dispatches.
Certainly. the Postmaster General is
no such fool as this.
COMMON SENSE rs. LAR0E PA pERs
1t becomes more and more noticeable
with each succeeding year that the
publishers Of the northwest who have
accepted the failacy Of publishing great
large blanket sheets have made = mis-
take.
The Storm Lake Pilot has reduced
its s'Ze from \ seven column Quarto to
y seven column folio, and we learn that
the Tribune of that place intends soon
to cut down to the present size Of the
Courier.
Big papers get man lots of praise,
and the subscriber who takes the paper
to lend it his moral support, will come
around and pat a fellow OH the back
about getting up paper that is cred.
it to tile town and 80 off and never pay
for it just the same rs hs would the lit
tie one.
The big paper is fraud.
1t costs the publisher every cent he
can get to keep up expense and his wife
aud children have to 90 hungry, while
u lot Of dead beat galOots will take it
year after year and never think of pay
ing for it.
Ii you ask one of the hycnas for q
cent they will fly mad, throw the pape,
hack III the post Office, swear you are q
fool, that your id old paper is no &C
count any how.
But lie won't pay for it.
Not he.
lie isn't that sort of chick.
And he will serve the big paper just
rs mean in this respect rs he will thu
The big paper makes pauper of thu
Don't you forget that.--Cheroke'
Courier.
Dyes, but they meyer caught US OF
that hook. There was orcs q paper i,
Worthington and it was folio and g
quarto, and an eight column and ;
nine column. and itjumped about iron
haad press to power press and bacl
to = hand press and-failure. During
this time the steady going, trip-ham
mer ADVANCE moved right on witt
the same old size and form and tn
saae machinery, and laughed at tn
geese who were ''playing'' newspape
and it is-success. The fools called u
a''fool," the lunatics called us o ''lu
natic," the idiots called us an idiot,
but the ADVANCE never changed, nev
or missed an issue, not even during tn
forty days blockade, never varied in q
these years more than an hour or tw
in the time Of issue, coming out ever
Thursday about 10 or II O'Clock al reg
ularly rs the dinner hour comes. RI