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Show An Incident. Scene, the Herald office Cashier to subscriber, Mr. your yearly subscription to the Herald is now due. Subscriber How is that ? Do you expect me to pay for a newspaper f I have always been supplied with tho Tribune gratuitously. The carrier has left it at my door in town, and it has been regularly mailed to me , when I have been out of town. They ' have never asked me for a cent, Why can't the FIerald show equal liberality ? Cashier Can't say, Mr. . The Trib. you knew has a "great moral mission' which that same has been the occasion of more or less bleeding of certain citizens. There are subsidies sub-sidies which never get investigated by congress, and there are public officials offi-cials who consider organ-grinding among their duties. Those who dance may pay the fiddler. The Heiuld relies upon the support of the public; not upon official patronage or any subsidies for its existence. It is published for tho information of its subscribers and the mercantile public, not to gratify or tiUBtain a set of political adventurers. It gathers the events of the day at a considerable expense, prepares them in a readable form, has them put in type, printed on white paper, and distributes them every morning by carriers or through the mails. Every copy of the Herald printed represents a certain sum paid for labor, material and other expenses, ex-penses, which has to be met by receipts re-ceipts from subscribers and advertisers, advertis-ers, which are its sole means of subsistence. Hence dead-headism or gratuitous distribution are out of the question. The Herald is conducted on the same business principles as is a well-regulated bank or mercantile establishment. By thiB method it has prospered for iivo years, constantly increasing in its business. When the-public the-public cease to give it a living support sup-port on this basis, it will probably go out of tho newspaper field, as iU present proprietors are not in the market for subsidies from any cliques or rings whatever. As well might a lawyer be asked to conduct a suit gratuitously or a doctor to attend his patients free of cost, as for a newspaper news-paper publisher to distribute his paper pa-per gratis? No Bir! The Herald begs to be excused from following a vicious example in journalism for the sake of competition with its missionary mission-ary neighbor, or increasing its postal charges. Subscriber. All right. You talk like a book; I was only in fun; the fact is, I Bhould have stopped the Tribune long ago, if it had been possible; pos-sible; but it has been forced upon mo, contrary to my wish and orders. I am satisfied that the Herald is a growing, independent newspaper, not a bogus sheet, getting its scanty living liv-ing by begging and blackmail. |