Show newspapers and their patrons the following article should ie be read and pondered well b by y every man who takes a newspaper without paying for it in advance the result of my observation enables me to state as a fact that publishers of newspapers are more poorly rewarded than any class of men in the united states who invest an e equal al z amount of labor capital and thought tze they y are expected to jo do more service for less pay stand and dead 11 1 1 to more sponging heading L Y to puff and defend more people without fee or hope of reward than any other class they credit wider and longer get oftener cheated suffer more pec pecuniary biary loss and are 1 oftener the victims ot of misplaced misplaced confidence I 1 than any other calling in the community some I 1 people pay a printers bill hill more reluctantly tha than any aay other it goes harder with them to expend a dollar on a valuable newsy newspaper aper than ten on a needless gewgaw gew w gaw yet everybody avails himself of ae the editors pen yen pen and printers type and ink how daany many professional and political re reputations stations and fortunes have been made ant and sustained by the friendly though unrequited pen of the editor how many embryo towns and cities have been brought into notice and puffed into prosperity by the press how many railroads now in successful operation would have floundered but for the them assistance of the tha lever that moves the world in short what branch of american industry or activity has not been dess kess promoted press ro stimulated and defended by the and who has hag tendered it more than a miserable pittance for its mighty services the ile bazaars of fashion and the haunts of appetite and dissipation are thronged thron ged with an eager crowd bearing gold in their palmsy palms and the commodities there vended bended are sold at enormous profits though intrinsically worthless and paid for with scrupulous punctuality 2 while the counting room of the newspaper is the seat of dewing cheapening trade orders ac it is made a point of honor to liquidate a grog r bill but not of dishonor to repudiate a printers bill we confidently trust that all of our subscribers and patrons are not of the class for which the above is intended |