People's Pilot, Volume 6, Number 47, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 May 1897 — Archer Club Rates. [ARTICLE]

Archer Club Rates.

Numerous inquiries have come to hand for agent’s terms, club rates, etc., for subscriptions to The Archer. At the nominal rate which the paper is furnished it was not contemplated that a discount would be expected. The Archer is not published as a money maker either for the order or the publishers, but as the cheapest means through which inquirers can obtain needed information from which to benefit themselves. Unlike the customs which have prevailed in reform newspaper work heretofore, we cannot consent to consume all oUr revenues in printing free literature, the rock on which scores and hundreds of able papers have been stranded by their friends.

You want to learn about Archery. Your friends and neighbors want to likewise. When you have learned what it can do for you the benefits will so far exceed the cost, that club rates on the paper will not be worth mentioning. We state a fact that, the entire net subscriptions received during the past month, have been more than consumed in paying postage alone upon answers to inquiries received asking for literature and specific points of information. An organizer who has the requisite energy to get up a list of subscribers for the Archer is surely in line of promotion to employment where his own personal revenues will exceed any reasonable expectations, and the greater his list of readers the quicker and more extensive will be the direct returns from growth of the work within his circle of acquaintance. Remuneration is the watchword of Archery, for everyone connected. If we can’t reach people through their selfish desires Archery will go the way all others have gone. The Archer is simply a guide to show you the avenues through which your selfishness may be directed and utilized not alone for self but when helping self helping the community as well. However, we nave already granted to those desirous of making a start, a free copy for propaganda purposes, for every list of four, or five copies for SI.OO. Better than this, cost of production will not justify the offer.