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Show DEAD-HEADING ON THE PBKSS. The very popular i 'ea that newspaper news-paper people aro dead heads, ia a very popular error. There ia no interest on earth tbat ia expected to, and actually does, give so much to society without pay aa the presa. Instead ot being dead-beads, newspapers are the victims of dead-beada. Not a day passes but they ore imposed upon by the public. Every publisher in this or any other town will bear ua cut iu what we Bay. A a a matter of fact tbe editor endures more of genuine dead-beading dead-beading than any other man in the world. The pulpit, the bar, the drama, religious and charitable societies, soci-eties, financial and industrial corporations, corpor-ations, everybody who is anything or ever expects to become anything is a leech upon the liberality of the preea. A fellow "gives" to tbe editor a paas to a twenty-five cent show, aud then expects ten dollars' worth of gratuitous gratu-itous advertising. A weak enterprise ia sought to be established, and the press ia called upon to give it strength and encouragement. A preachor wants free puffing, and a civil official aaka the press to make him popular. An actor becomes tbe editor's mortal enemy if the man of Fabere does not bestow upon him doll lira and dollars in free advertising. The dull author expects the press to say be is bright and entertaining; the quack con Bid era it the newspaper's duly to tell tbe world that bo is honorable and skilled. Tho editor is tbe one to whom fools, look to give them ta'.enta, thieves to give them bouor, knaves to give thorn respectability, the guilty, to give them cloaks ot innocence, frauds, to hide their roguery, and swindlers to cover up their cheating; tbe vain expect to be extolled by tbe press, the pauper asks to be fed and the unfortunate to be protected agaiuBt miafortune. And all for nothing. The world, or a large portion of it, apparently looks upon the preea us a thing to be imposed upon at will; a thing from which everyone is in duty bound to get all he can and return as little as possible A amall-souled man will give the press a five-dollar advertisement and then consider himself cheated if tbe editor doea not write- him twenty-five dollars' worth of editorial notices. It ia aboul time this sort of thing was stopped, and for people to understand that the press ia not a dead-bead, but the chief victim of dead heads. A newBpaper geta nothing that purports to come gratuitiously that it does not pay for four fold, and it gives much in true charity that people erroneously think they pay for. |
