The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-10-17

paper ana for eight pages Of inferior
papers. For fourteen years the price
OF the State Journal to carriers has
been ore cent per copy. Fourteen
years ago four cents a week profit
was much less than three cents is to-
day. Carriers. can make more money
! delivering the state Journal at a mare
gin Of three cents than they can any
other. paper in Topeka at a margin Of
four cents, because there are more
Journals and the paper is better
paper, with better employees. and q
better press. There are cheaper
papers and probably always viii be.
Under the new plan under which
some of the carriers are now working,
the carriers will receive 80 per cent of
the gross proceeds paid by subscribers
of Topeka for their sexen-day paper.
What business man of Topeka is there
who gives his employees 80 per cent Of
the gross proceeds of his sales? There
may be a few. but not many.
Under this new arrangement the
carriers OF Topeka will make 5000 per
week-that is 1857 per month or &c.,
eco per year-for a little work every
evening and Sunday morning. Some
of these eareiers will make from $50
| to S75 per month. Mcclure, who is q
carrier who issstirring up strife, we RE
gret to say, in &his matter, viii make
under the new PLAN if he does not get
| a single new subscriber. if he continues
Ito carry, $3.50 per week, or s32.50 per
month; and it will not take him more
than an hour or two every day in the
/ evening and Sunday morning before
breakfast, and will give him good e1-
ercise and a bit of business experience.
IF he should work for the State Jour-
nal during the vacation, as he did dur
| ing one vacation, he would make ABOUT
thirty dollars a month moreZor even
more than that if he canned it. We
paid him $40 for eight hoarss work ana
he carried his papers at the same time
That is $62.5O per month--EFetty good
wages for a student, isn't it?
| Mr.. Troutman in his remarks Mon
| day tried to make It out that the pro-
prfetor of this paper was beneficiary
/ of the carriers. But he was stirring up
strife. The people of Topeka know the
State Journal is not the beneficiary
During the nearly 20 years under
which the present system of carriers,
/ inaugurated by Mr.. MacLennan has
/ been in force, the price of the paper
to carrier and subscriber. Our old
carriers and old subscribers know this.
/ We have some beautiful letters. from
old carriers received during this trou-
i BILE In fact, we are about 500 letters
behind with correspondence in connec-
/ ton with favorable letters, express
sions, congratulations, etc, growing
| out of the carrier trouble and the Sun
day paper.
/ During the fifteen or more years
the State Journal has permitted its
carriers to make a profit of over
100000. Most of this money has
gene to Washburn college and board
| ing houses and the merchants. State
/ Journal carriers are everywhere filling
responsible positions. and in rare
cases are they not warm friends of
the paper which made it possible for
them to get a college education.
Under this new plan, the forty
three carriers of the State Journal
viii average $40 per month for their
services. Isn't that pretty good pay
for an hour or two of work in the
I evening and on Sunday morning?
we are stin deiuged with requests
from people asking that their names
be taken off the carriers petition. We
were not permitted to even read this
petition, and cannot therefore take
their names of The petition is full
| of forgeries. It is supposed to be in
the hands of W. H. Rossington.
| Charles Blood Smith, James A Trout
man or Robert Stone and we suggest
that subscribers whose names have
! at tn 7fr
their authority write or telephone to
any or all of these people, and send
US a copy of their message.
These attacks upon the State Jour
nal, just as it is taking a great step
/ forward. are eowardly and contempti-
bic on the part of these outsiders, and
a few carriers who ought to know
better or express some sense of graft
tude instead of trying to knife the pa
pr that has helped them.
We have no doubt as to the outcome
of these suits. We will be permitted
to run our own business because that
is the American way. and we will run
it on the plan we have mapped out
and which years of experience have
shown is the proper plan.
In regard to this fabulous wealth, =,
If we made more money we would have
a better building in Topeka than we
have today for the State Journal. We
are spending our money here for the
welfare of our family. ourselves, and
the Topeka people who make it posi-
bic. by their subscriptions and adver-
Using, for us to be in business.
We deeply appreciate the scores of
letters for which there is not now
time to answer, and above all appre-
cite the fine lot of advertising which
the merchants of Topeka are giving
the paper and for which they get value
received-but which is appreciated just
the same.