Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 35, Number 143, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 December 1903 — Only Dead Beats [ARTICLE]

Only Dead Beats

Newspaper men should not print the silly story that postal laws are such that a newspaper publisher oan arrest anyone for fraud who takes a paper and refuses to pay for it. Newspaper men should know better. When a man spongGs his reading off a newspaper man for 4or 5 years and has the postmaster mark it “refused” when pay is demanded be is on the legAl level with a man who buys sugar and coffee of the grooer or shoes and blankets of the dry goods man and refqpes to pay for them. The government is not in the collecting business for newspaper men any more than for the merchants, -Ox ford Tribune.