To the Public.
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The rights of editors and publishers of papers
have been too long neglected. Justice will never
be done unless themselves assert their rights
and enforce the most rigid rules, which in the
end will be found alike salutary to the public and
beneficial to those engaged in the press. Pub
fishers of papers have been so long imposed upon
by the community at large, that they are consld-
cred to some extent a degraded class OF beings,
when in fact there is no vocation in life so honor
able, deserving of so high consideration, produc-
tive of so much good, class that exerts 80 power
full an influence. 1t is known to be proverbial for
the debtors to newspaper publishers to consider
their demands as the last to be paid debts to
which there is attached no moral obligation, and
which they can refuse to pay with justice and
honor: hence, it is incumbent upon the conduc-
tors of the press to assert their own rights, and
resolve, severaly and jointly, to bring all patrons
of newspapers under the same obligations that at
tach to other contracts, or always remain in pow
erty and want, with thousands due them from the
most solvent men in the country.
We call upon all editors and publishers of pa
pers who approve of the following rules, to endorse
them by their signatures-place them at the head
of their papers, and strictly adhere e them.
lst. No subscription received without payment
IN GduGnee.


3D. No subscription received iol lsss than Six
months.


Sd. Advance payment win Sc required from
all transient advertisers.


4th. To announce no man for any Office, either
State or County, without the GdggRce payment OF
ten dollars.


5th Political circulars charged as advertise
ments and payment required IN Advance.
9th All advertisements of personal alterca-
ton will be charged double and payment requir-
ed IN Advance.


7th. Election tickets will not be printed with
out order, nor delivered to any person without
payment.


9th. All subscribers, without respect to persons
who are delinquents, on the first of October, will
be stricken from the list, and their accounts put
In suit.


The above rules, we, the undersigned, pledge
JAMES A. STEVENS,
Editor and Proprietor of the YazoO City Wing.


S. H. B. BLACK.


Editor of the Natchez Courier.


BESANCON g. HALLIDAY.
Publishers of the Mississippi Free Trader.


JAMES HAGAN.
Editor and Proprietor of the Vicksburg Sentinel.


VIM. M. SMYTH,
Editor and Proprietor of the Grand Gulf Adv.
r. A. B. & S. C. CORWINE,
Editors and Proprietors of the Yazoo Banner.


GEORGE A. WILSON,
Editor & Proprietor of the Holly-Springs Banner


TAOMAS BROWN,


Editor of the Rodney Telegraph.


]. nj. DUFFIELD,


Editor of Grand Gulf Whig


w. B. TEBO,


Editor of the Fayette Advertiser


NEED g. NEWTON,


Publishers of the Southern Reporter.


BAKER g. CURTIS.
Editors and PrOprietoIs of the Southern Argus


M, MOWER,


Publisher Of the Southern Sentinel.


AREA S. CLARK.
PnbIishor of the Port Gibson Correspondent


GEO. R. KIGER.


Editor of Gallatin Star
June 1899