Should Stop This Practice

The Portland Eeview iiits the nail square on the head in the followiug senteneas: "Au esteemed subscriber severed his frieudly relations with this office this week because we cliarged him flfty cents for a card of thanks. The faot that he was a subscriber, he said, ought to have been taken into cousideration and no charge should have been made. Our friend ia only one of a well meaning number of neswpaper patrons who believe that the dollar they pay rhe printer every year entitles them not only to 52 copies of the paper, but all the trirnmings as well. When they get into trouble they corne to the editor with the plea they are on the snbscriptiun list, and that no mention of the diföculty should be made. If they have threé or fonr lines of advertisiug they want it printed free because they take the paper. The fact is the advertising columns of the paper are oui stock in trade. If we give space to every man who is a subscriber, with what regularity would we be likely to meet uur obligations? A merchant is uot expected to hand dowu his goods to every man who patrouizes him. Why should it be expected of the printer?" The Review is right in its remarks, there is uo man in business wbo gives away so mueh of his stock in trade as the newspaper man, and the very fact of his doing so seems to imbue people with tbe idea that they have a perfect right to demand that he keep right on doiug it. When newspaper publishers cali a sharp halt on this kind of busiuess they will fiud that it will be greatly to their financial advantage and that they will be more respected for it as well.