The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1893-03-08
The Country Weekly.

By reference to an article to be tound
i another column of to days Herald, II
will be seen that the Quitman sun has
suspended publication.
Editor Hanlon, even under the very
disaoreeabe circumstances that surround
him. sums up the cause of the Suns suS~
pension in this facetious manner: Il can
not collect, and the paper cannot subsist
on air"
In arriving at this conclusion, Editor
Hlnlon does the correct thing by refus-
inc to continue the publication of his
paper. The people Of Quitman and
Brooks county have not only refused to
patronize him, but have, ineXcusably,
refused to pay what is due him for past
services, and he is, in the natural order
of things, compelled to close his office
and look to other fields for support
Now, who is to suffer for this state Of
affairs? Financially, Mr.. Hanlon, OF
course; but in the eyes of the people Of
the state, are not the citizens OF that
county the greater sufferers, after all?
They are the ones who viii receive the
censure of the public.
This matter is hard to understand.
The Sun has always been model week
ly paper, upon which Editor Hanlon has
labored earnestly and increasingly for the
town and county's interest, and that the
people should refuse to pay him what
they honestly owe-which they could
easily dds utterly beyond our compre-
hension.
The Herald knows that there are good
men in Brooks county who have and will
stand by Editor Hanlon, but that does
not, perhaps, lessen the weight of exist
ing circumstances. The bulk of his pat
ronage, no doubt, is the generality Of the
people, whose inaccessibiHty prevents
any systematic work Of collecting what
is due.
This state of affairs exists all over the
country, and the country press should
endeavor to correct the evil as soon as
practicable This way Of continuing a
mans subscription indefinitely because
he has not the change convenient, or I'M
der t.umped-dp promises that would fill
a book as large as the Congressional Re
cord, will noU do. The editor must have
something to pay the printer with, and
to put bread upon his table, not to men
ton the thousand and one other daily
demands incidental to a newspaper man.
The fate Of the Quitman Sun does not
es abHsh a precedent. On the contrary,
it but adds another to the long list OF
Georgia papers-good ones too-ohat have
gone down fJr want Of substantial aid
and support from the ones to whose in
terests the paper is pledged and com
mited
T"ere are weekly papers in Georgia
to-day that cannot exist very much long
er. The Herald knows this to be fact
They have lived upon promises until
actual want and need will not admit of
patience being virtue. They must have
support,
There may be many ways of correcting
the troubles of the country press, but it
seems to the Herald that the J-oC plan
would be to establish a cash subscription
system invariably in advance with a
big 81" The other revenues can be
handled well enough; but the subscrip-
ton regulation and motto should be, ''no
money, no paper"
The money lost by country ne gspa-
pens in the state OF Georgia yearly,
through deadbeats, deaths and removals,
would 90 into the millions Of dollars. \
imam may be good, as the term goes,
but if he is good he is more able to
pay his subscription in advance than
the editor is to wait for it six months or
even year.
A man that cannot pay, in advance,
one dollar or a dollar and a half for his
paper should be made to read almanacs
of a decade ago for his news.
The Herald hopes to see the country
press adopt the cash subscription plan
to unit. Make assurance doubly
sure"
Church Vandalism.