The Redwood gazette., 1890-03-13
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convention call, or political announce
ment of any description, including the
ticket, for less than rs cents per line,
each insertion. If you charged up all
your gratuitous work of this descrip-
ton you would be surprised to see it
mount into hundreds of dollars every
campaign. Maintain your manliness
in your editorial columns and 60 for
all that the politicians have in sight
for such legitimate political business
as I have named. The papers in any
county can bring about this healthy
and legitimate state of political emol-
uments" by such an agreement as sug-
gested, and the men who seek to Sc
cure the offices of honor or trust will
foot the bills. If an editor is a candi-
date either for nomination or election,
as is his undoubted right, he should
contribute his assessment in cash to
the political committee, and thus set
an example which will bring back his
own money and ten times more.
Do not be bamboozled by the argu-
ment that because members of your
political party subscribe for your pa
per land once in three or four years 6
few of them pay their subscriptions
they have pull on you for gratuitous
use of your business space. You fur
nish an equivalent for your subscrip-
tions, and it is only the editor, who, in
political affairs is expected to labor
for principle, and rely for sustenance
upon filling his belly with the east
wind.
Two prominent hotels.in Chicago
the Grand Pacific and Palmer-fur-
nish business illustration in point.
The proprietors Of the Grand Pacific
are ardent Republicans, and the pro-
prietor of the Palmer is an ardent
Democrat. Both are liberal cash con-
tributors to their respective parties,
but when a national convention is held
in that city the members of the re-
spective political parties do not expect
to eat their sausages or drink their
whisky without charge at those emil
nent hostelries. On tho contrary the
hotels adopt that celebrated Latin
maxim "soc ct tuum" and come friend
or foe, politically speaking, it is all
grist to their mills. The Republican
National committee very properly
makes it's headquarters at the Grand
Pacific, paying enormous rates for ice
water and the use of parlors and mar
BILE top tables to contain the pitchers.
The Democrats pursue similar course
toward the Palmer, and a sufficient
number in both parties answer the de-
scription of George William Curtis of
being "very hungry and very thirsty"
to make the selection of political head
quarters by great party monumental
in its emoluments.
The same business principle applies
to the newspaper. You are contribut-
ing absolute cash in the conduct of
your business to the support of the
party you advocate. In some cases
you do more and give the use of brains
as well. You wrestle with the tariff
question nights and Sundays without
knowing anything about it at the out
set and less after you have gotten
through. But, little as you know, you
have given information to your read
ers and are entitled to consideration
therefor. You do not lay stress enough
upon the value OF brains. You are ex-
pected to prove that white is black and
right is wrong or vice versa, in sup
port of your party, and you do it man
sully, oftentimes blindly and stupidity
in your party zeal. That is your I'M
bought brainy editorial department.
But while you are doing this, the bus
mess end of the establishment should
be hrlmming about gathering honey
from the political party which profits
by your labors. Individual members
of the party secure fat offices and va.
rious jobs which put money in their
pockets and you have, by the able ad-
vocacy of your party's cause, enabled
them to thrive. The party contributes
to them and they should cheerfully
respond to the business demands of
the paper which has done more than
any one agency to keep up and make
successful the party.