| Show BAD 1 1 FOR CERTAIN 1 OP OF 11 MW M W SlArK HS 11 this seems to be a bad year on some newspapers quite a number of them la in utah have gone to the wall while a number of others are struggling along on the verge of bandru ba nkru ay y too many papers for the size alze of the town in which they are published Is in the cause cuse as 11 for most of these failures A newspaper will seemingly be getting along all right and making a little mory mondy tho tha editor makes some small politician mad and the politician geta gets friends together and they chip in ad slid find a poor devil of an editor who has made a failure of it e elsewhere se where and ie Is willing to move in his junk shop and start an opposition newspaper paper to run the old editor tor out he starts up with great promises ot 0 what he ie is going to do A few fellow fellows go in and subscribe for his paper when he immediately announces that he has secured hundreds of subscribers and that hie his paper is an unqualified success but blit he has to secretly apply to his friend the politician each saturday night to get set the money to pay hs hla expenses this touching process growa grows od utter after a bit and the politician concludes that it pay to back a newspaper and withdraws hie hia financial support the paper staggers along a few weeks and cifes up the ghost and is deposited in the newspaper graveyard where so man others have preceded it leaving a ft of creditors principally merchants vo have furnished their groceries in exchange for advertising not to mourn hie his departure but to chara 1 up the cost of the experiment to the profit and loss column and make resolutions that they will never again be fooled footed into a scheme to support a spite newspaper another thing that makes timea times hard for the newspaper newspapers la Is the propensity to cut each others throats men in other lines of business busl get together ar and agree what is a fair price to charge for their goods but the country editor thinks it is a smart thing to do to cut the price of advertising down to a figure which le cannot make a profit on in order to hurt his competitor he ile does not seem to realize that neither his competitor nor himself can long survive by doing busl afsa on euch such a bis 1 and generally his competitor lasts longer at it than does the smart guy who makel the cut in prices how mow many price merchant merchants are cutting prices on groceries dry goods clothing farm implements suga meats and the like |
