Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1859-08-18
..sToP MY PAPER

he has the right to stop his paper Whenever
be pleases, and nobody has the right to 70.
quire of him reason for il. It may be one
which he does not choose to make public
He may MOI, like the paper, or he may dis,
like the editor, Or he may feel that he has
no time to read, or il. be has, that, he had
rather spend his time in reading something
else, or he may feel that he is not ableSt
pay for it-at events he is under- no OBJ.
legation to give any reason to anybody for
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Nevertheless you have some fer
it, good, or bad. Some of themw have
heard often enough. to know, and somerof
them we. intend to guess ats. One says,
"stope my paper, / don't, likesJour prineis
pies" Well, that's, very we'll Norman
ought to sustain a paper which advocates
bad principles; but let us:see about that
If you are always able to find out the princii
pies Of aspaper, you are more fortunatenhau
weare. But thenif You can, are you sure
the principles are bad? What are your
principles? Are you ssure that you have
any, erseyer hada Sometimss.we find you
supporting one man, or set Of men, and
sometimes another. Somebody has changed
principles. Ifyou have changed principles,
you may change again. i. you have been
wrong once, you may be. swrong, .agaip-be-
sides a man OF paper may differ with you
and be right. 81 p. 4s,.,. 1T -ssn.e "a
aWell," says another, 81 agreewith= =yoa
and like your paper very much, but Lmuat
curtail my expenses .o3s$Itis, very well too,
if you have. been extravagant, to curtaiI and
be more economical; but hadn't you better
cut off larger expenses-some .thatare more
injurious to you? Your paper syou but
a very smallamount Of money, andi, brings
with it no bad habits, and involves the ne:
cessity of no other expenses nay, perhaps
it keeps you out of bad habits and saves you
the expenses consequent upon. them*' It
affords You employment Of ftime which might
otherwise. be badly employed, and noman
ever had good paper for one year without
getting the worth of his money out oft, to
say nothing of the benefit derived from it
by his family. = ". -.s. ''- ]" '1-'s -
f"But," says another, .tstop my paper; net
that I dislike your principles Or your paper,
on the contrary, Tam well pleased with it y
but my neighbor takes it, and have the
use of his.''''~..-. az =. = y : = 3
A good many publishers complain very
greatly Of "newspaper borrowers" For our.
selves, we would prefer, of course, that every
body would take our paper for himself and
pay for it; but we have no complaint to make,
of any body on that score, if there is any
body who likes our paper and is unable OF
unwilling to pay for it, we hope those who
do take it will lend it to him. But suppose
you can have the benefit of it for nothing i;
if you think it advocates good. principles,
don't you think it is your duty, aye, and
your interest, to help to support it? Sup.
pose that everybody, should adopt your
course, then there would be nobody Of whom
you could borrow. Do you take one and
pay for it, aDd there will be two to lend in
stead of one. You will help in that way to,
disseminate good principles, and you will
furnish the publisher with the means Of dis:
seminating them more efficiently. You will
serve yourself and the country. Instead:
therefore, of stopping your paper when your
time is out, go out amongst your neighbors
and gather up a dozen new subscribers and
send up their names and the money, and you
will feel the better for it at least whole
year.