The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1899-01-01


admitting that We dad not collect or re-
cetve any revenue from the Ncys Letter
your statement Of $3.50 b not correct, fol
| 11l2.73 for seven months would only b
$224s7 and fraction.
Now, let ~ zee what the receipts have
been from the News Letter. In May they
were $500. leaving the cost OF the Newa
Letter $3.50; in June they were &77.i4
leaving the cost 1904; In July they were
sl4n,oi, leaving the cost SSO.47: in Angus,
| they were $i4ys, leaving the cost $153,3S:
/ IN September they were y2S9.19, leaving the
cost $24.41: In October they were S1S3.67
leaving the cost stSs.7s; In November they
were $10S.6i, leaving the cost $202.s4. YOU
| will see from this that the receipts from
the News Letter we're $8S6.17. Deduc,
$sS6.17 from the cost end you have $s26. So
the actual cost OF the News Letter FOL
| seven months II you will divide this BY
seven you will find the actual cost Of the
| News Letter per month for the last seven
| months. which Is $11S.0S--quite differsn,
from your assertion that II costs $3.50.
| 1t Is Unnecessary for ME to say that
because the News Letter ID Of any advan-
tage to me personally, but because l know
| positively as the secretary OF this asso-
cation that II - an advantage and an In
| fiuence for good In this association. md
every week I have letters from members
ccmplimenting us on the publication of this
paper. 1t may be that the members OF
/ the Texas division do not look at 1t In
| that light. but We can not understand why
any member should object to the publica-
| tion OF an official organ at 80 small an ex-
pense as $11S per month.
You say that The Houston Post. the
Galveston and Dallas News and tho San
Antonio Express will publish all the Of
fic,al news gratis. For arguments sake
we will admit that this Ii true How many
outside OF the great State OF Texas would
be Interested In The Houston Post. TIE
san Antonio Express or the Galveston or
Dallas News? How many members In the
States OF Oregon or California do you sup
pose wound get any OF these papers as the
official organ, and II they received them.
how many Of them do you suppose wouli
wade through them for The official news?
DO you know OF any fraternal organization
which has an official organ published in
THAT Way? And even II that really was
correct, do you suppose In the larger cit
les, such as San Francisco. St. Louis Chi
cago Cincinnati, New York or Philadel-
would be willing to represent liz as an o.
ficial organ free OF charge? You may
think so, but / from personal experience
know that II can not be done. How many
papers In the State OF Indiana or Illinois
or Wisconsin would YOU find who would
DO WllllilH regularly 10 publish the news
OF this association without cost? Isn't IT
y fact THAT nearly every successful fra
ternal organization has an official organ ?
! myself am member OF seyerl organic
lions. secret and otherwise, and each and
every one OF them publish an official or
1 gan; and from and through that organ,
and that organ alone. can obtain the
/ news and Information In regard to the
| particular association. Take. for instance.
the United Commercial Travellers, which
| Is strong In Texas. Is 1t not fact that
no ono can deny that the Sample Case Vas
done as much to build up and strengthen
and help the United Commercial Travellers
| as any other ono factor? And Is 1t not
also "a fact that for n long time this Sample
Case was published at a loss either to the
United Commercial Travellers or some one
else?
A matter which you seemed to overlook,
| in speaking OF tho expense Of the ASSOC
| citation in the fact that In publishing the
| News Letter and charging the total eX-
pense to the News Lstter, mary items Of
| expense which would occur ard be charged
either to printing or postage are charged
to this source. Take tho matter OF sending
| out the amendments sixty days before the
convention On the membership OF $4,000
| the printing OF the amendments. us they
have ruin heretofore, would cost from S25
to $40. Thirteen Thousand envelopes Mt the
very lowest figure We can get tham would
DO s13. That would make $iS at tho lowest
possible figures. The addressing OF those
| envelopes IL worth $l3. making SOL, Two
centa postage on 10000 circulars would DO
$3.50; this added to the SCI would make
$S2l. In figuring the expense of the News
Letter such items rs these should be d.
uncteii at tho erd OF the year, for II they
were not sent out In the News Letter they
would have to be sent out, under the con-
I'm. nj hAr A0n in
months ago the National board OF directors
by resolution offered to each member
bringing In six new members prior TO
January 1 their dues for six months, This
was published In the News Letter and
sent to every member. Had the association
not been publishing the News Letter II
would have cost In the neighborhood OF
5000 to notify each and every member that
by securing SIX members no could recslye
his Shies for six motlhs That the mem
bers rea'b the paper we are satisfied
through the responses We received to that
offer OF the Natioral board Of directors.
am not only an advocate Of the News
Letter. but believe that II the members,
instead OF finding fault and crIticising the
board for publishing this raper and con-
tinually Knocking would trrn IN and give
their hearty cooperation. this News Lot
ter could within q few years be male, Dot
only self sustaining, but could put large
sum asste each year for a reserve fund
In my opinion every member OF this asso-
citation who Is interested In tho welfare aud
success Of the association ought to be
willirg to pay so cents a year for the offl-
clal organ. II they would do that In a Jew
years they would hayo reserve fund
larger than any association OF tho kind In
the world and would stani ahead Of any
organization Of . similar character fnan-
scialty as we'll a. numerically.
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