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The Price Of Paper

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Parent Issue
Day
24
Month
June
Year
1864
Copyright
Public Domain
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Upon tlie tt'bjeet oí fie preat increase df fie price of psper the Utica Hirald says : The sheet whicli the reader kolds n his hands communds in market, as it comas i'rom the paper mili, as muoh as llio iraeevftsiio ue after it s printed and sent out, bearing tlie labor of editors, news-githeiera, telegrapLers, compositora, and presumen. Yet tho ,w-anuf;ieturers antl speciílateos iiisist tliat kigher pnces must rala, TJiey rili listen .t no'arguments, and the nmlcet is watlL'in tkeir control. The publiüliers may enduro thi8fiT.eesui-k tur a time, but after a vcliile the readers of newspapers must expect to share fcbe ibnipdcn with them." The ynjiü of paper in New York is 21 eervts per amná - tn advance on the old rates of ovot 10 per eenfc, anditlie highest point reaehed during Aa war. At tka eoennous pritss uav enaetod, no newspaper ean be eastained at -siiytliiug like subacription rutes.; the basiuo-ss will be ruined, publishers Kiiproveri-shüd, and the means ol intelligeuee so r restricte.l as to deprimo a large propoi-tion of our paapje of tho instruction of t&e fre8H. It is confessed by the larger and aieáer uewspapers that the priee of whi:e ij.!iper bis already risen to a poiut whieh uxhnua'i t'boV yrofits; and thu furiher dvunce niustiea-d to au inervase in thcir su'bacripUon ratee, ñnl'ci they are willing to suffer ditily au.d csnetant loss in th.eir busineis, T!lc:tJ! lt-rüitb.d a i . ip (-f

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