The Pulaski Citizen

Running a Newspaper.
A contemporary newspaper publisher has discovered that it takes money to run a newspaper, as any other business, and no paper will succeed financially that carries on the dead-head system. He has come to the conclusion that "Any mention of the people's affairs that they are anxious to see in print is worth paying for, and when printed, is generally as beneficial as any other investment of the same amount." The newspaper business is very exacting on all connected with it, and the pay is comparatively small; the proprietors risk more money for smaller profit, and the editors and reporters and printers work harder and cheaper than the same number of men in any other profession requiring the given amount of intelligence and training and drudgery. The life has its charms and pleasant associations scarcely known by the outside world; but it has its earnest work, and anxieties and hours of exhaustion which likewise are not known to those who think the business all fun. The idea that newspaperdom is a charmed circle, where the favored members live a life of ease and free from care, and go to the circus at night on a free ticket, and to the springs on a free pass in the summer, is an idea which we desire to explode practically and theoretically. Business is business; and the journal that succeeds is the one that is run on a square business footing, the same as banking, or building bridges, keeping hotel or running a livery stable.