The Durham daily globe. (Durham, N.C.) 1889-1894, 1892-07-13
ADVICE Is FREE.

That is to say, advice is free unless you
go to your lawyer. lie will take you
into his arms and his cOnli4.nce at the
usual rate-ten dollars to look at you
and twenty-five dollars to speak. But in
the print shOp-the place where the
news is printed when news is news and
you don't care-that is where advice be-
ONE a drug on the market and where
gObs and slices and chunks of it are
ready to serve at all times and under all
circumstances
For instance:
The press association Of the State is
soon to meet. This old man perhaps has
no business to make a suggestion, yet it
comes in our way to make it and here
goes. If any creature does not like the
suggestion he is at perfect liberty to do
Whatsoever may suit him best. He may
dig worms or saw wood.
viii the outfit do any business this
year? Will it get down to it for a day
at least-or, is it to be another and an
other and another annual bum until the
end of time?
1t is a disgraceful state of affairs, but
there are papers in the state of North
Carolina, and we have seen the contracts
at the main office of the agents, who ac-
cept foreign advertising at one-ffth the
price they charge the home man. The
question comes home-Why rob your
n%eighbor?
But they do rob him. 1t is daylight
rObbery-it is cold blooded robbery.
The press association, if it would do
so, could become useful. We have re-
Gently talked with a half dozen editors
and publishers who expressed a desire to
join if the concern would do business.
But they will not do business, unless, let
us hope, they turn over a new leaf this
year.
There is no reason why a combination
not a ~trust-cOuld not be started and
a mutual benefit society instead of the
abOminable Mutual Admiration Society
be formed.
1t makes this old man shiver when he
raises a foreign advertiser and has
him shake in our face the fact that a
paper with a larger circulation claimed
offers to do the work for about one-siX-
teenth. If advertising agents can grow
rich in a few years, then ZONES home the
truth which is: Newspaper men can
make a living if they fight for it.
A case in point: The other day, three
months ago, perhaps, we received from
n. ". Aver Il Son, Philadelphia. an
offer 10 insert for Worthington's Medi-
cine a four-inch picture on the local
page, every other day, tifty-two times,
for six dollars net, or eight dollars gross.
The ad. they said was e~lectrotYped. We
told them to hear US whistle-they could
ride with us ffty-twO days for even
twenty dollars, net cash. They claimed
that they must place the al. at once
this was the 10th of April. They offered
Us a dollar Or two mOre-the CORE
spondence is voluminous-and we ex-
planned 10 them that twenty dollars, net
cash, was the stuff we wanted-nO more,
and emphasized the fact that it would be
no less.
Another letter came and still another.
The burden OF their song was that we
should do ii. We should take it, because
the six or eight and finally ten dollars
they offered were just that much clear.
We told them, in the language of Bildad
the Shuttle 10 go to-let US make brick.
wo months after they had promised US
ana assured Us that the adj. must be
placed At once, W. received the order for
twenty dollars, net cash, and the con
tract will soon expire.
But listen. y few other paper in the