The Mississippi Creole. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1841-1851, 1849-12-01
REApERs Is. suBscRIBERs.

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paper, comprise indeed but a very small por-
ton Of the oauimuhity,yet we venture TO say
that nine outof eSaFystsu readine men in cur
town and aslghbofhood, tsaa i either regular
" Or occasionally. To these ~ROn-paying pat
rom we have a few words to say.
Have YOU never thought that while you are
reading the paper at the expense Of others,
you are not acting altogether honoFably! Ii
you never have. just lay down this borrowed
paper which you are reading, and reflect a lit
tie nOC. You know that iris an advantage
toyour town and neighborhOod land Of course
to you, to have a newspaper published in it
You know this, we say; or If you don't, you
ought tolAnd Alitle reflection will enable you to
perceive it. If you BEE Or hear of anything
in another paper which you think would benefit
yOurselfyour friends..o Of your party or your town,
you are anxious that it should appear in the
paper at home; orif any public matter comes
up, which you may deem Of importance to the
place or yourself, you expect to find the pa
pei strongly pushing it forward; aud if it does
nOtyou are perhaps tho first to complain although
you have always been sponging the reading
Of Q M neighbOrS paper, and have never given
a cent to sustain that which you expect to ad-
vance your interests. Now, just think a%little-is
this right! Printers cant afford to work for
nothing an keep themselves,' and yet you
are practically asking them to do it. If you
had no paPeri in your town you wouldbe the first
to feel the want Of it, for you are enjoying the
benefit resulting from it, without allowing
your pocket to safer in the least thereby.
You may answer sYou needn't talk saucy
about it, for IL you don't publish a paper here
some one else WILL True enough, we admit
but that don't better your conduct in the least.
The paper is non going on, and you are nOt0
spOnging, that which others more thoughtful, or
perhaps more honorable, are paying Tor.
'But I don't like the political course Of your
paper you may say. No matter for that; you
read it, whether you like it or not; and it is
your duty to support you. local paper, even
if it be not a perfect mirror, veieCting precise
" your own political views. It d worth more
than the subscription price for The other mat
ter which it contains.
tBut l can't afford il-pm too poor.' Are
you sure Of thata Just think, now; have you
not over and over again, paid more than our
subscription price for articles Of much less
value to you than a newspaper? We feel con-
fdent that you have, but if you have not, as
soon as We get all to subscribe who should do
SO, we will send you a copy for nothing.
But l am getting a city paper, and can't
afford to take another.' We suppose you rea-
son in this way:-sT There's no use in my
paying for The Appalachian, Some Of my
neighbOrs take it, and l can borrow it from
them, or pick it up in their stOresOr shops, and
read II FOR nothing. 1t don't do any harm to
read il after they Lave got it; SO, Ill send for
a city paper, and thus get the reading Of two
while Ipay for one. It's almost throwing mon
ey away, to pay for The Appalachian. for l can
read it anyhow This will all do very we'll for
men who ate determined to get all they can
without regard to right--lo feap where they
have not sown--but for honorable men (and
we do not wish to say that you are not such,
although the circumstances are nightly against
you,) it is certainly very strange talk, and if
you think a little on the subject, you will
agree with US, We maintain that you should
support a paper at home, frs, and afterwards
take as many more as you may see proper.
We wish you to understand, however, that
when we ask you to support or sustain > us,
we do not ask it as i gift Of charity, for we
consider the paper worth all that is asked for
it. If we didn't, we wouldn't ask you to take
1t.
We have talked long enough to you, for the
present, and hope you will reflect upon the
subject, and come to the wise conclusion that
you will no longer be dependant upon others
for that which you should have yOurself.-
Don't think now that we are limiting at some
person; it is you we are speaking to~-yca, who
are now reading this paper which somebody
else has paid for. If you have a family, pay
for the paper, and let them read itSif you have
not, take the paper atonce, for you can't expect
any high minded girl will have you, il she
knows that you are depending upon Others to
pay for your reading.
Thus endeih the first lesson.
We have taken rather much space for THU
subject, but as many Of our subscribers are
much annoyed By this class Of readers, we trust
they will not object to our holding a'talk
with them NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.
We endorse all that, we do. sDces any
body tske?'-Creole.
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