A PLAIN TRUTH.

Manawatu Standard, Volume IV, Issue 32, 7 January 1884, Page 3

A PLAIN TRUTH.

When a recent Combination Company S^eVe in' Paliuerston, the manager, of a local paper was told a very plain truth. One of, the Company remarked to him the very pool 1 houses they were having. f "Of course," said he, "it's nothing to do with : me, for you've bought the iho'ises, yon know, but it's nly opinion you Bhonld have advertised m th« other paper." " Pooh, nonsense," indignantly replied the manager, " why the TimeS has a larger circulation than the Standard." " Well, that may be. 'your opinion," rejbined the member of the Company, "■ but 1 can assure you you are laboring - under a big error. Why, nobody seems to know, there's a. iGoinpany playing here." '* Oh, you're, quite wrong. Everyone reads the Tiraps." " Well, Mister, what 1. look at is which paper is most a&ked for. 'It I go into a hotel-parlour, billiard- , room, barber's shop, or the library, or wherever people assemble, the ' question I bear always is, „ '.Have, you the StaWdabd. 1 I never hear a Soul ask for the Times. That's ! what I go by. I firmly believe had you bottled your pride and advertised m the. other paper it would have been pounds m your pocket." ',' Wh}', do you know they qharge 5s an inch for theatrical advertisements ?" " Yes, and if I was a manager I would willingly give them 10a so that the public might see it. Why, T saw three duysjof your paper lying at — — 's shop yesterday never opened, and he told me the Standard was the only paper he ever read, or ever was asked for. That's a fact." The manager here thought it was time to adjourn, but he got a straight tip from the otber party that should be of some service to him here lafter. •