The Evening dispatch. [volume] (Provo, City, Utah) 1891-1895, 1895-06-26
PROVO CITY. JUNE 25
THE PRESS ASSOCIATION.


The recent meeting Of the Utah
Press association in this city gave
promise that the craft here is on the
right track and very soon the business
of publishing newspapers will become
more remunerative and consequently
the members will rise in the popular
favor. The condition of semi pauper-
ism which has for so long prevailed IN
Utah and the west generally, occa-
stoned by faulty business methods, is
TO be broken up. Too many people
have formed the idea that the news
paper is under obligations to print
everything free of cost which is OF in
terest or of service to the churches,
the schools and all charitable and
benevolent enterprises. This is seri-
Gus mistake and it is one which has
helped to entail its present poverty
upon the press of Utah. Ii one will
note the number of notices in any one
of the daily or weekly papers OF Utah
for the churches. schools, benevolent,
social organizations, and, shall we say
it. political announcements also, and
recall the fact that these are all Tree
notices and also that each one Of these
has cost the publisher more or less
actual money to print, he Will noC
wonder at the actual poverty OF the
men engaged in the work, On the
other hand if he gets anything like a
Just conception of the IL alter, he will
wonder no longer at the wretched
starving surroundings of the publishers
of country newspapers in Utah.
This state of things the association
is designed to correct. Instead OF
making of himself the humble, CRATE
full recipient of prize pigs, prize
peaches and apples and giving four
prices in putting for them, the assocla-
tion will try to teach that he is not an
object of charity, but that he ls an
honest, faithful and efficient worker,
well deserving his pay, in money, ike
other workers. The fault is rather
more in the newspaper men them
selves than III the people. Mat
ter of this kind is brought to the office
by wealthy and influential people and
the editor suffers himself to be
wronged in this way rather than to
risk offending some friend of the
journal he Is conducting. A man who
is afraid to be just even to himself
ought never to be entrusted with the
conduct of a public newspaper. No
man who is incapable of teaching
Justice and right ought to publish q
paper Of even modest proportions. He
who cringes and toadies or who suffers
himself to be made the tool or servant
of the rich and pow erful, should never
60 into the business Of publishing
newspapers. This lesson. the journals
in the Utah association, are learning,
and when they have once fully mas
tered it they will begin to prosper.
What is true Of Utah papers was
once true Of those of every other state
in the union. The other states have
come up out of it. They have learned
and so will the papers OF Utah. De-
mand decent price for work of all
kinds and reject the work which will
not pay fair remuneration, This is
she secret of success in newspaper bus
mess as in all other lines of human ef-
fort. If newspaper men will adopt
such rules and adhere to them sternly,
they will be able to collect bills on the
first Of tie month as the merchants
and tradesmen do. Then when his
pay day comes round he will not be
compelled to stand his employees off.
and he will have something over for
bis physician, grocer, butcher and
tailor. Correct business principles
are as applicable to the business of tie |
as to any other line of bus
mess pursuits. If the papers will !
adopt the rule they will soon be indie
pendent and prosperous.
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