Rensselaer Republican, Volume 21, Number 45, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 July 1889 — Newspaper Duns. [ARTICLE]

Newspaper Duns.

We suppose many people think newspaper men are persistent duns. By way of comparison let us suppose a farmer raises 1,000 bushels of wheat a year and he sells this out to 1,000 persons in all parts of the country, a great portion of them saying, *T will hand you the dollar in a short time.” Of course the farmer don’t want to bo small about it and he says all right. Soon his 1,000 bushels of wheat are all gone, but lie has little money to show for it, and the farmer then realizes that he has frittered away his whole wheat crop and that its value is due him in a thousand little dribbles, consequently he is seriously embarrassed in his business, because his debtors, each owing only sl, treat it as a small matter, and of eourse think it would not help much. Continue this kind of business year in and year out, as the publisher does, how long could he or would he stand it? A moment’s though; will convince anyone that a publisher has cause for persistent dunning.—Exchange.