Rensselaer Republican, Volume 24, Number 42, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 June 1892 — The Price of Newspapers. [ARTICLE]

The Price of Newspapers.

The Rochester Sentinel long insisted that the dollar a year subscription price of a certain. Rochester news paper was a ruinous financial venture and the Rejmblicun now' ‘comes out with a candid confession that the argument was right. The liejmblcon says: * „ “We published the Republican for five yfcars at one dollar per year about starved out at it, and so we resolved tiiat inasmuch as there is not another county paper in Indiana published at one dollar, and many of them are two dollars, we would go back to the old price of one dollar and a half. Whenever you can get a pair of home-made boots as cheap as ready-made boots or a tailor-made suits of clothes as cheap as you cap buy “hand-me-downs,” we will continue to work for nothing and board ourselves, ” . - ~ —-— : The fact is no live county paper can Jbe made at one dollar a year with any profit Lo the publisher and a newspaper reader who insists that the editor and publisher shall work day and night, as nearly all have to do, for bare expenses, is not made of tile right kind of stuff to add encouragement to industry, pleasure to their fellow beings, or profit to a progresssi vc age.—Delphi Journal.