Bellevue Republican Suspends Publication

BELLEVUE

Posted By: Ken Wright (email)
Date: 7/22/2009 at 23:09:37

City Advocate, Lyons, Clinton County, Iowa, October 24, 1857.

Bellevue Republican

Concluded to Quit

The publisher and editor of the Bellevue Republican has concluded to suspend the publication of a paper in that embryo city, and winds the concern up with the following good advice to its citizens:

“If the citizens of the place wish one to be firmly established, they need the services of competent and active printers to superintend its publication. Mere political demagogues or business men with tastes remote from the heart of the people, can never do the work. A more hearty support should also be tendered the institution. Residents of the country should oftener remember their indebtedness, and not expect some dozen help-cats to live and thrive without the staple commodity-Cash! Pardon our sermon and please remember its advice.”

These are facts that apply everywhere in the West as well as in Bellevue. There is always an anxiety to have a newspaper in a town as soon as a blacksmith shop, a tavern and a store are put in operation, and very frequently promises are made to induce their establishment, which are little heeded after the paper gets going, and at the end of a year its publisher finds himself involved in a debt which he cannot pay, with a meager list of subscribers, and all the fair promises leaving him to his own destruction. We believe that many publishers in the state of Iowa will find themselves in that situation, ere a twelve months passes over, and that very many of the papers started in this state within the last two years will cease to exist. It may be said that printers should know better than to be caught in such snares and so they should, but they do not and hence the fact that so many more newspapers are started than continue to be published past the first year. But people will learn only by experience, and not by example, else many a dollar would have been saved that has been, and will again be sunk in attempting to publish newspapers where it is impossible to make them pay.