The Irish standard., 1902-12-27
A NEW YEARS GREETING.

the OH year is rapidly drawing TO
Il close, and ere the next issue of this
paper is in the hands of our readers
it will have passed away for ever.
At the dawn of 1903 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 encourage 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 it's cir
culntion, and solicit Il continuance of
their friendship in the future as in the
past. 1t will be our aim to give our
readers as good paper as possible. in
both selected and original matter, and
we shall always eldeavor to be up to
the times in the discussion of import
ant events and never to wait until our
contemporaries have expressed their
opinions before We express ours.
Besides the old subscribers whom
graph, there are others not quite so
prompt in paying their subscriptions.
These habitually fall into arrears, and
| sometimes it is difficult to get them
TO pay anything. 10 such we would
say IL few words in IL sober, business
| like way and request their closest at
tenton. Ii 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 ad-
vance. We would ask them to look
Mt the label on their papers and see
whether or not they have paid in adj
vance according to terms. IL they
find they are behind in their payment,
we respectfully demand that Mt the
beginning of the New Year they wipe
out their indebtedness ut once. The
subscription of one individual for n
year is only ~. but If there are 500
subscribers in arrears they will owe
81, OOO-H large sum to Il 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 dc
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 50 year is too much tC
pay for an up-tO-datc Catholic paper
like The Irish Standard: They sa!
that they can get Il weekly paper fol-
one dollar a year. Yes, but what does
it amount to? How much valuable i'll
formation can they find i'll it's col
umns? The weekly editions of daily
papers contain very little Catholic OF
Celtic news, and in an Irish-Amcrical
family they are out of place. The!
cost the publishers almost nothing ant
the advertisements in them pay (:
handsome return. The cost of issuing
them is mere tritle compared to tina
of Il first-cass 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 Catholi,
home.
: 1t has been demonstrated that ;
good Catholic weekly paper cannot b'
published in the United States for less
than $500 year. All who have triet
to produce Il cheaper paper have re
GREETED their venture. Any intelligen
reader readily sees the superiority o
a Catholic paper at $500 Il year o.
more over secular weekly ut half thu
price. 1t is needless to argue tina
every Catholic home should have :
Catholic paper of some kind. Th,
Catholic family without Catholic