The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1900-07-07

And il we today flash this out from our
headlight to the other newspapers of
the State as we start on another year,
switch off of this pleasure track and
get on the main business line, by the
time of our mex association the pleas
| of poverty, lack of time and business
drawbacks will be brushed away and a
full representative association will ride
in. There is no State in the Union
whose weekly papers show more intel
ligence, both in editorials and appear
ance, than those of Mississippi, but
this is due to the self-sacrifioing men
and women who have them in charge.
The healthy and prosperous appear
nee does not mean that they are a sue
cess financially. Far from it; for un-
der our present system of newspaper
business, as far as / can ee, the cash
received goes into the paper, and the
promises, which are the larger part,
represent the yearly dividend.
Unlike other business, nothing is left
out of each years earnings to protect
in old age, to buy new material, or
leave for protection and care of the
family after death; and when the aged
business men Of other professions have
laid down their pens or implements OF
labor to await the messenger that calls
them to meet their loved ones across
the river under the shade of the trees,
the printer or newspaper man whose
head is white with the frosts of many
years is still standing at his post oil
labor earning his daily bread. IT'S nc
~overdrawn picture; in almost every city
we see it. What is the escape? There
are but two-one that the individual
printer alone change his business meth
DDS; the other that we perfect an or
g~anization whose members by intelli
gence, fidelity and association, change
them for him.
If there ever was a time in the his
tory Of the printing business of Missis
sippi when our coming together SHOULD
mean something more than having
good time, when union is necessary TO
self-preservation and advancement
that time is now. When 1 speak o
! organization l do not mea organiza
ton for the purpose of cutting tn
:. wages OF the Office printer, but in trutl
it has in view the raising of every on
who works in the print shop from tn
= Office devil REORGANIZATION that make
, the one who has the work done pay tn
price necessary to accomplish it.
Everything we use from the ink t
the wrapper has advanced almos
double in price, and the producers G
/, these articles are all organized to hol
I them up. The object of organization
is not, as some suppose, to increas
prices, but to prevent loss. Toda
I, there are a number of weeklies tina
4 are being sent out at the old price-Sl.O
$ per year-when the paper they ar
printed on and the material they ar
n printed with cost double the price
did when so low a subscription wa
| asked. Again there are print shops i
Il the State that have not increased
cent on their job work, while the il
G crease in the price of paper has cut O
their profits over SO per cent. Failur,
rs in the past, will be the result of sue
= q policy, whether it is carried O
. against competition or for the want {
sense. Competition Is said to be tn
IS life Of trade, but the competitor VIII
r does work at less than cost, as man
you know are doing to keep you frol
! getting it, is dwarfng your busine:
u and destroying his own
sc You cannot judge your competitor
If business by the number of presses h
is running or the amount of paper h
buys, for while it may be far in exec,