The Lancaster ledger. [volume] (Lancaster, S.C.) 1852-1905, 1856-03-05
PAY FOR YOUR NEWSPAPER,
DY J.. A. W. III.

There it is. What nice, pleasant
faced sheet it is full of news, literature.
and all sorts ofagrccable matter. You
were very uneasy until it came in aux-
ious to know about the war, how the sky
looked on your side of politics; the exact
rise or fall ON real estate; what banks
were yet solvent; what public buildings.
being erected; who we've burnt out. who
hung or married; (Which is sometimes
"worser:w Everything under the sun
you wished to know ami where woulL
you have learned it, iut Tor that dear oii
familiar newspaper!
}ou couldn't live without that papcr.
lod Would be as ignorant lis brute, as
cross as a savage, as'uncas, AS a fish out
OF water, as poor as" "Job's turkey
blind, deaf, dumb--a mere m6hkey. in
broad'cloth or calico. You would miss
the announcements of new books, plavs.
and singers; you wouldn't know where to
find new hat, bonnet, the best shoe.
blacklng, or fresh oysters; you wouldn't
know IT old terra 'firms yet stood on the
original turtles back, or if the great quad
rupcd had turned a somerset with it. and
got on top himself. Why friend think of
It you wouldn't know when the moon
would bc ccipsod, the comet be visible,
or the minister have his donation visit.
And yet how intelligent you are and
whence comes yonr intelligence! from Il @
news papcr-and whence comes the News
paper'i' 1T doesn't grow upon a cabbage
stalk-you don't haul it up in Your well
buckot-it doesn't come down in a snow
storm, and yet you can't manufacture il
at home.
But that Newspaper is made, reader.
MADE by the un-remit:cd toll Of many
hands; the wear and tear OF flesh and
brain. Its editor works, more hours than
any Southern slave; by sun light and
laIhp-lght, in all sorts of weather, in all
conditions Of health, and all conditions of
his family, or friends Sick wife, sick chill
'lrcn, dying friend, all the same with him:
there he Is ut an everlasting desk. think
ing, thinging, thinking; writing, writing,
writing; dcc!phering bad Mss, selecting
stale poetry; and it, many instances per.
forming part Of the mechanic. /! labor
himself.
lie cannot shift his responsibilities il
he wants a good paper he must see to it
al himself.
Dick might say TOO much, Harry too
little, Tom " onld iiil it up with love tales
and rhyme, AM Joscphus with accidents
and remarks aboht the weather. Then
there's 4 buhlrcl. basket full e letters to be
opened and arSwcrcd-etc., etc, etc. Ev-
cry editor must work Ike ditchr.
But this is not the worst Of it: that
printing establishment is kcp, up at tire
mcudouS expense. Think OF it; printers
assistants of all kinds, press ink, paper,
iires, lights, and all necessary items and
where will he get the money to pay for
all this hcl p, and all those ra,tielrans Of
printing office We opin, lie won't &c,
work done for affections sake: ms noholy
works for Iorc in this u,ilitarian age; and
hi. horcSt Iace will hardly endorse him
Tor thousand dollars, where he buys his
implements OF trade-he need, moacy.
And where wilfhe O., iti He ought
to get 1t OF you, DELINQUENT subscribcr-
and does he You ought not TO take Mat
paper ""iess yoa can o6ord 10 i,by for a.;
but you can; you could pay in advance,
or enclose the money in sn envclopc. and
throw it into Uncle Sans box on the very
day your year is out; and in this way
You might save your printers II deal 0,
time, trouble and loss.
| Yes, and you might save poor mechan.
les and writers many heart ache; for
YOU obiee your publisher to with hold
their wages just so long as YOU fail to paw
lam ; and there is no end To the trouble
you make hyyour neglect of duty.
ray for your Ncwpopr. Wear that
old coat three months longer, nj
home froni that concert, and postpone ,la,
party but pay the printer.
We know you hsvn't n moment,
peace. You feel like hcn.roost robbcr
every iue that paper comes in; and the
rueful countcnance OF that poor pcrpIexetl
editor, and all concerned, haunt YOU in
your midnight dreams4:pa U, and be a
man: Wedecply synpathize with you in
this struggle between sclflove and duty :
for IRE are in tie u,ac d;hmn,a; but come
one and all, let US walk right IN to the
mark, and pay for the newspaper; and af.
ter that we will look all creation in the
face without wmking.-OEee Branch.