This famous editor called pay on pub a 'relic of the dark ages'—a century ago!

"The writer is entitled to a prompt decision, and that helps some with him. Paying on acceptance helps more, for he usually needs the money quite as much as the man who makes a living selling hides. The old method of paying on publication, keeping the writer waiting for weeks and months and sometimes years for his money, is a relic of the dark ages of magazine making. But it is still twilight in some magazine offices." — George Horace Lorimer, longtime editor of the Saturday Evening Post, interviewed in 1919.