Rensselaer Union, Volume 8, Number 18, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 January 1876 — WE WILL NOT BE THERE. [ARTICLE]

WE WILL NOT BE THERE.

A blood-curdling circular “to Auxiliary Publishers” has been issued from the Gazette office, Kentland, Ind., recently, and mailed to the newspaper fraternity in Indiana, Illinois, lowa, Wisconsin and Michigan. The circular reviews somewhat the causes which led our lorefathers to inaugurate the Revolutionary War, is illustrated with extracts from the Declaration of Independence, and adorned with a statement of matters pertaining to the private hffairs of a' very tine and clever gentleman who does business at Nos. 77, 79 and 81 Jackson street, Chicago, with branch establishments in St. Louis and Cleveland. It declares that all who patronize the gentleman referred to “are slaves to-day and furthermore states that these very same slaves, of whom it is admitted the proprietors of the Gazette establishment are a portion, are paying “25 per cent, blood money” to another firm doing business at 41 Park Row, New York, with a branch office in St. Louis. Resides these awlul statements and '‘horrid admissions our Kentland neighbor announces that in company with “a little band of publishers” it has “perfected an organization looking to the throwing off of the . oppressive yoke.” Here Tim Union claps its hands and excSffims: Rally for you and that little band! Yank off those yoke, and with it erect a rectangular head on Ansel N. Kellogg, George P. Rowell, Hannibal Hamlin, Luke Poland, Zachariah Chandler and all others who attempt to enslave, harrass, downtread or otherwise maltreat a freeborn press —or words of similar import. If any man attempts to haul down our grand and numerous couutry newspapers, or refuses to transact business and furnish supplies gratis, snoot him on the spot, without benefit of’clergy or jury, that in dying he may leave no sigu. Do this friends, neighbors, intelligent countrymen, and unborn millions shall rise up and call you blessed; even thousands of centen nial epochs hence, when ourselves and all that at pvesent inhabit this globe shall have become extinct, and are known only as the petrified remains of a paleozoic past.

Badinage aside, however, it is possible that th& patrons of the co-operative plan of publishing newspapers are paying dearly for their whistles. We pay Mr. Kellogg 47£ cents per quire for 6-col-urno quarto sheits (instead of 36 cents as the circular before us). An office that uses 20 quires per week (the number upon which estimates are based in this circular) pays him nearly SSOO per annum. In addition to this price he reserves nearly 7 columns for the use of his own advertisements —space that we receive no pay whatever for. But in dealing with this gentleman for a period extending 1 over ten years—eight years of the time as principal—we have found him straightforward, upright and honorable iu all trauaactious. lie

has often extended favprs seldom granted by mere business acquaintances, and we would be very mean indeed to forget them and ungratefully conspire to injure bis business. We* shall have nothing whatever to do with the proposed meeting at I Chicago on the Bth day o( next) month. Whenever our interest demands, and we find that we can do better somewhere else, our patronage will be withdrawn from Mr. Kellogg and taken to that better place. But this act will be performed quietly, without a flourish of trumpets, in a gentlemanly and business-like manner, and without consulting Simon P. Conner, George Burt, jr., or anybody else.