The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1892-08-24
REQUESTS TO PUBLISH.
Why Not Offer TO Pay the Expense Of
Type Setting?

We are In receipt of long political docu
ument from gentleman In another county
with request to publish the same, but never
n word did he say about footing the bill for
type setting. We would be perfectly willing
to publish much matter. if it were not for the
expense OF type setting, and the document to
which we refer Is one of them.
| AS II Is, we have great quantity of local
matter, which we feel inclined to publish, al
our own expense. and are willing 10 foot the
bill OF type setting, but ouri Is a county pa
| per, and when persons desire to publish mat
| ter for their own qualification, they ought not
| to ask us to foot the bill.
| The man whose name appears at the head OF
| the paper edits 1t, and pays the bills for what
ever he desires TO have set up. and he thinks
| that others from another county. who choose
| TO ask us to print matter for their own gratti-
cation. should do as the editor does, bear the
expense Of setting the type.
We would like TO disauuse the public mind
Of the idea that we can print matter without
the expense OF type setting. There are many
things which we would be glad to publish, II
II were not for the expense.
AS long as we print the Christian Neighbor
we can "till up the paper" without any cost
whatever, so that the idea Of furnishing some
We already have type enough with which TO
"hll up" We set type only when we want to
print something.
Persons, therefore, who labor under n delu-
sion, may now See that the publication OF our
newspaper at least, Is brought about by labor
and the necessary obligation TO pay for that
w U are BIdu IO dCCOtIllUOuuIe
our friends however, and ii they will pay the
necessary cost OF the displacement of the
type from the Christian Neighbor, we will
gladly publish much that we are now obliged
to decline solely because of the expense.
The case referred to Is not an Isolated one.
There Is scarcely week that we do not re-
celve q request to publish something for some
body, but we do not recollect of any instance
where any body has offered 10 pay the expense
of type setting.
Notable among the liberal requests was that
OF the Prohibition Executive Committee
They asked for column every week. A re-
quest like that on u paper like ours is pretty
steep, when the facts and circumstances are
stated. For weeks we have not found room
in our paper for great quantities OF matter.
Sometimes we have had perhaps aS much an
a page of original matter which had to be left
over because of lack OF room. Some of the
matter of paid correspondents have been Of
ten excluded because Of lack OF space.
TO set column Of matter costs US about
one dollar. Then TO ask US To Sci one column
Of prohI billion matter, made up chiefly OF tx
tracts from other papers, Is equivalent to as
sessing US one dollar a week during the cam
paign including the implied request to ex-
ciude home matter to get In temperance mat
ter-which, by the way, has sometimes BEEN
cut out OF the patent side of our own paper.
This newspaper may be unalterably set
down aS opposed to the licensing OF the sale
Of whiskcy, but we want TO work for the pro-
hibitOn cause IN our own way. and we think
we have time and again shown most Clearly
that the license system Is Il most iniq quitous
one in more ways than one.