Show c s c it t CHEAP NEWSPAPERS j i f The newsdealers the east who i are banding together to keep up the t T price of newspapers and to fight n n I f against those journals that haveS have-S lately reduced their price are acting I i 1 c very foolishly The dealer is an + important factor in disposing of s 1 papers but the great public is vastly more important The strikers i for so the protesting agents must be called say there is no demand for cheaper newspapers That is a t f question which the buyers can and will best decide The fact that the r 1 r NewT York Sun at two cents has A New-T + perhaps twice the city circulztion of any other New York journal except ex-cept the Herald proves that theY the-Y people do like cheap papers and the other fact that the sales of the New York Times since its reduction to two cents have increased wonderfully wonder-fully even beyond the expectations i Sis Si-s of the publishers demonstrates with emphasis that readers know their business better than news dealers Thousands of peoPle peo-Ple who were unacquainted with that excellent newspaper the Times simply because it cost four cents more than they could afford to pay and more than they thought it worth are now taking it as regularly regu-larly as they formerly did the Sun and they like it much better than they do the last named There is a demand for cheap papers the dealers deal-ers te the contrary notwithstanding and the cheaper the journal the more popular will it be The newsagents I news-agents are making a mistake in counting on the public for support The public is more interested in obtaining lowpriced newspapers than in feeing avaricious middlemen middle-men and when the dealers fight for high prices they are scheming to fleece the people as well as to rob the publishers A victory for the newspapers is predicted in this controversy con-troversy The public will have the papers and if one set of dealers do not provide them others will readily be found to do justice to the people as well as to the publishers |