The Evansville daily journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ia. [i.e. Ind.]) 1848-1862, 1850-07-01
BOrrOwing Newspapers.

tins very disagreeable subject. 1t is enough .
it is shocking enough to human nature
that there is a class Of persons in this country
AYE, in this State-yes, by oar eyes, right
in this city-who, though blessed with abun-
dant means, have so little respect for them
selves and fear OF the endless horrors of after |
punishment, and so decided contempt for |
the bread and butter of printers, that instead
oil subscribing to a newspaper like men and
christians, they beg and borrow it day by day |
till the shame of their own degeneracy is up
On their faces and IN their hearts. Yes, rath- !
er than pay hard toiling man ten cents a
week. for that which is as necessary to them
as medicine to the sick and then reading their
paper with a good conscience, and comment
ing upon its contents with the independence
of a man who has paid for the liberty, he
begs OF borrnws that Tor which anotner HIun
hath freely given, and which has cost the Ed
itor and artizan many an hours anxious Ia
Dor, the experience ofyears, and much ex-
pense. We allude not none to the casual
borrower, for as men are compelled by Cir
cumstances to borrow money: SO are they OBJ
we speak of the habitual borrower of news
papers-Ihat man who shamelessly, Cay after
day, or week after week, not only picks your
pockets, but subjects you to a serious incon-
venience, while he is SO doing, We have
subscribers who would rather have their pock-
cts picked than their newspaper borrowed,
and yet who are obliged in falsely conceiv-
ed poIiteness or neghborly feeling, to submit
to the latter.
But there are several facts connected with
borrowing newspapers, that render it dis
graceful to those guilty of the act. You will
abuses paper, is he who borrows it, or at
least gets it some way without paying. He
is the man who cheats the printer. There
is no mistake about this. Whenever you
hear man scandalze the Journal for in
stance, ask him if he is a subscriber. We
will bet our hat that in nine cases out of ten,
he is not or if he is, he has not paid for his pa
per. You might as we'll expect poor devil
in the habit of stealing his neighbours pota-
toes would make the stngs of conscience
worse by believing and speaking of said
neighbor as a saint, as to suppose the news
paper borrower would praise that which he
obtains so sneakingly. His only comfort is
in making himself believe the paper which
he bQrrows IS not worth buying-and this {
man can very easily do, whose judgment ant
conscience can be covered with dime.
We know several men in this town, who il
a spirit of bigotry stopped the Daily Journa
during the time of the Temperance discus
sion-yet who have scarcely missed the read
ing of a Journal since that time They de
termined to prosecute u.s. but while 1re do no
feel the persecution, half dozen of thei
neghbors suffer by it most gTievously. The
are like man in a spirit Of anger declinD
to purchase chickens any longer of an oil
vender, but as he must have chickens, there
after robs all his neighbours hen roosts. TIL
chicken vender is not quite so much spited q
those who have the misfortune to live in prov
unity, with the unfortunate lover Of fowls
And this class Of borrowers invariably give
paper, editor and devil althunder. The
seem to think the paper is published just lt
them to abuse-and that abuse is manufa
Lut Gu JUST iOI LiSHi W puOlLSil'
These remarks are suggested by actu
complaints from subscribers, who in their d
licacy submit to being imposed upon by the
newspaper sponges, rather than refuse tie
the paper. On Saturday, one of these vi
Tins offered to pay us for the Daily if v
would have it left at a neighboring stor
where his invariably found its way in a sho
it is with others. Now we suggest to OF
friends who are thus victimzed, when to day
paper is borrowed just to draw black ma
around this article, which will inform sa
borrower, that not only have you read the a
tclc, but it is your sincere desire he should
the same and profit thereby. Our word
1t, the offence will be committed no more,
only at rare intervals-or if it continue, S
that neighbor down as man who only ava
his opportunity to plumber your house as
now picks your pocket, and who is not to
trusted to the extent of farthing-a m
whom shame has fled, and the virtues of t
world never knew-a degenerate son of A
am, who if he had been in Adams plaC
voud have saved the world the conseque
ces of Ewes sin, for she would have new
been able to get bite at the apple IN t
presence of such mental, moral and ply
cal hog.
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