Year: 1862

Rass In che Price or PsAsers.


The propriet0n of the country Rapers' ana
OF those city papers, both daily am weekly
which depend mainly upon their counsgy sub


scribers for support, feel the pressure OF the
times and the taxes most terribly. The Boston
daily papers have agreed to raise their prices
from two to three cents after the LIST OF
December Tho managers Of the Western
papers held convention at indianapolis last
week. and. without coming TO any definite de-
cision In regard to the matter, unanimously
resolved that an advance in thor rates was ad-
visable. The Vermont editors will hold o
meeting at Montpelier to consult upon the
same subject. Some of our New York dailies
are already announcing that they must soon
increase their terms ALSO and the majority Of
our weekly papers have recently arrived at
the same conclusion. Throughout the whole
country, therefore, there Is an evident dispo-
stion among certain newspaper men to add
twenty-five or nfty per cent to the price OF
their papers, In order to meet their expenses
and give them q living profit.


The causes Of this rise are the heavy taxes
to which newspapers are subjected and the re-
cent advance In the price Of white paper. Not
only are all the manufactured materials which
are used In newspaper Office greatly taxed,
but the kilograms are .also taxed, the salaries
of the writer's and the wages of the other EN-.
ployes are taxed, and, finally, the receipts from
advertisements and the incomes Of the proprie
tors are taxed. Besides this, the price Of white
paper has advanced one hundred per cent, and
will probably rise still higher. Take all these
circumstances into consideration, and it is
obvious that many Of the newspaper proprie
tors are now mourning loss instead Of gaining
a profit by their publications, and consequently
they are anxious to raise the prices Of their
newspapers in order to overcome this def
cheney. The great majority of these poverty
stricken proprietors of Western, New England
and New York papers are members of the
radical republican party, which has involved
the nation in this war They have brought on
these taxes and this rise in paper, and are now
suffering the consequences of their own folly.
1t was all very we'll for them to be continually
interfering with the business of the South but
how do they like to have their own business
thus interfered WITH We have often assured
them that they were working against their own
interests; and now they discover that they
might better have followed our. ad-
vice and let abolition agitations alone.
The mills Of the gods grind slowly, but they
grind exceedingly fine; and the radical republi
can editors have at last found their Nemesis in
the paper mills, and are being crushed out Of
existence. No one will miss or regret them.


The consequences of this rise will be de-
crease in the number'of the papers in the coun-
try, an increase in the subscription list Of great
metropolitan newspapers like the HERALD, and,
we trust, marked Improvement in the cbarsc-
tor Of the American press. The people must
read newspapers-that is a foregole conclusion.
The newspaper is as necessary a. food to an
American citizen. But persons who could
afford to take two or three newspapers when I
newspapers were cheap will subscribe to only
one newspaper now that newspapers are to be
dear; and 1t is but natural to suppose that they
will select and subscribe for the best newspa-
per obtainable. This seals the fate OF many
country papers which have hitherto been en-
dured rather than patronized by the people,
and will result in concentrating the reading
masses around some leading metropolitan jour
nal We believe that these results will not only
benefit tho character of the American press, but
will also do much for the still further elevation Of
the American people. The poorest newspapers
are generally the worst and the vilest, aud are
controlled solely BY the brbes and the contract
Jobs Of corrupt politicians. To demonstrate this


it ia only necessary to look at the radical organs
in this city, one of which sold out three
tines iu succession 10 different aspirants for the
Comptrollcrship, and other OF which are now
slyly endeavoring to cut The throat Of their own
candidate for that office, in order to get nice
ti,bit. in the shape of Corporation advertising
out Of the democratic nominee whom t'ley now
perceive to be certain OF an election. The an
initiation Of such papers "a these u positive
blessing, aud, if it can be accompl ishcd by q
rise in their prices we wish thai the present
taxes may be doubled, and that white paper
may advance to as high premium as gold.
We warn the radical editors. therefore, that If
they wish to keep up little life for a while
longer they should do anything rather than in
crease their prices. Why, for instance, cannot
they initiate the example of the traitors whom
they are aiding and abetting, and print their
papers upon brown paper, At their present
rates they may manage to maintain their small
circulstiOns for short time; but at tfty per
cent advance they will be too dear to buy even
for wrapping paper, aud must inevitably end
their career In ruin.


PRESIDENT LNcoLNs vIsn TO GENERAL
BuRssiDE- Whatever may be the causes which
detain tho Army Of the Potomac on the north