The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1902-12-27
A NEW YEARS GREETING.

The Old year is rapidly drawing to
Il close, and ere the next issue of this
paper is i'm the hands of our readers
it will have passed away for ever.
At the dawn of 1908 we wish all the
subscribers of The Irish Standard in
city, town, village. and hamlet, both
in the New World and the Old, Il
Happy New Year, and hope they will
enjoy health and prosperity during it's
progress from January to December,
At the threshold of the New Year
the publishers of The Irish Standard
desire to have an earnest talk with
it's readers in the Northwest. In the
first place, we thank all the old sub
scribers of the paper who for many
years have encouraged us in the work
we have undertaken by the prompt
payment of their subscriptions when
due. We fully appreciate all they
have done in the extension of its cir
culatioll, and solicit II continuance of
their friendship in the future as in the
past. IL will be our aim to give our
readers as good Il paper as possible. in
both selected and original matter, and
we shall always endcaNor to be up to
ant events and never to wait until our
contemporaries have expressed their
opinions before we express ours.
Besides the old subscribers whom
we have thanked in the foregoing para
graph, there are CHEERS not quite so
prompt jim paying their subscriptions.
These habitually fall into arrears, and
sometimes it is difficult to get them
10 pay anything. 10 such we would
say few words in Il sober, business
like way and request their closest at
tention. If they kindly look at the
head of the first column of the edi-
tOrial page they will find that the
subscription is always payable in adj
vance. We would ask them to look
ut the label OH their papers and see
whether or not they have paid in adj
vance according to terms. Ii they
find they are behind in their payment,
we respectfully demand that ut the
beginning of the New Year they wipe
out their indebtedness ut once. The
subscription of one individual for n
year is only -, but il there are 500
subscribers in arrears they will owe
81, OOO-;l large sum to II weekly paper
that pays all it's own bills when due.
We hope it is unnecessary to say more
on this subject. We trust that all de-
linquents will remit ut once and begin
the new year without owing IL cent for
The Irish Standard.
There is class of subscribers who
think that 81 Il year is too much to
pay for an up-to-datc Catholic paper
like The Irish Standard: They say
that they can get Il weekly paper for
one dollar Il year. Yes, but what does
it amount to? How much valuable i'll
formation can they find in its col
umns? The weekly editions of daily
papers contain very little Catholic or
Celtic news, and in an lrish-Amcrican
family they are out of place. They
cost the publishers almost nothing and
the advertisements in them pay Il
handsome return. The cost of issuing
them is Il mere tritle compared to that
of Il irst-class Irish-American journal
The latter mainly depends for its sup
port on subscriptions, and its publish
ers exercise great care in the selection
of reading matter for the Catholic
home.
1t has been demonstrated that Il
good Catholic weekly paper cannot be
published in the United States for less
than $500 year. All who have tried
to produce cheaper paper have re
GREETED their venture. Any Intelligent
reader readily sees the superiority OF
a Catholic paper at $500 year OF
more over a secular weekly at half tho
price. 1t is needless to argue that
every Catholic home should have &
Catholic paper of some kind. The
Catholic family without a Catholic