Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1867-09-26


ua borrowers, that we will not dare to attack then
en- nasse, lest Ike the famous Knight of La Manchs
inhis charge upon the Yanguesian carriers, We
should find ourselves sadly discom6tted 1t is ou
candid opinion that few men have ever got rich BY
borrowing, while thousands have been ruined by
the pernicious practice. But, rather than be con
tentious, we will admit that sometimes it. may bt
necessary for man to borrow little money, or he
may have to call on neghbor for little meal, OF
a grain of -four when the weather is dry, or the
mill broken 1t may even be necessary sometimes
to borrow aneighbor's umbrella (but never to keep
it). Cases might occur in which it would be ne
cessary to borrow aneighbor's hat, or tooth brush
but under what circumstances it can be necessary
to be eyerlastingly borrowing neighbor's. news
paper, we cannot easily conceive. Yet to the grie
of editors, and the annoyance of subscribers this
practice is slamentably prevalent. .>-s--l Il,
Peter Walden and Joshua Tweezers, live in the
same neighborhood Peter takes paper and pays
for it Joshua is great reader of papers, but has
never been known to take one of his own. Peter
oftentimes finds that his paper has been read and
shamefnly handled by others before treaches him,
and so troubled is he with, borrowing neighbors,
that he at times feels ike trying to do without q
paper altogether. ... ..-.. -....... -
1''sWho IS that coming up the lane, Jane? o, Ma,
tits Mr.. Tweezersl Heis after the paper, In,
sure, and I have not finished that new tale. -
'seWalk in, Mr.. Tweezers; how is your health to
day2" "Not very well, thank you'll did not
rest well last night; for yesterday, at church, /
heard that we were going to be taken away to fight
the Ingins, and, as was passing, / thought /
would drop in and booao your paper to see if there
was anything of it, ... &c.,.
Mrs Walden hates to refuse neighbor, and,
though Mr.. W. and the children have not read
the paper, it is handed over to Mr. Tweezers,
whose style of borrowing is modelled after that Of
the Iaaelites when they went up out of the land
of Egypt. IL :i-.ts~ ii'a -. - ~.
Long ago, when but ore newspaper was taken
in district, on account of the high price and other
causes, it might have been necessary to borrow
but now, when newspapers, like the frogs Of Egypt,
swarm over the land, and, like them, would come
up into every mans house, if he would only send
the printer dollar or too this necessity has passed
away, and every man may now have his own hat,
his own umbrella, and his own newspaper. In
these days Of fharmonizing and reconstruchng, when
we are all trying 80 hard to cultivate spirit Of toy
atty and good will, of course we would carefully re-
fain from giving expression to any harsh or un-
kind feelings But if, in spirit of kindness and
brotherly love, we might venture suggestion to
our borrowing friends, it would be this that while
it is probably true, as divers philosophers hold,
that all men were made for some purpose, yet the
newspaper borrower may possibly be mistaken in
hat Ill ofbo do for
special benefit; and in acting on this assumption,
he is doing wrong to the subscriber, to the pub
Usher, to the reading public and to himself
Ifyou wish to know how annoying it is to be de-
prived of paper when you want to read it, just
go into copartnership with your neighbor and take
one awhile. Often when you want to read, your
friend will have the paper, and you soon feel like
you would as soon do without the paper as to get
it when it has lost the favor of novelty. In fam
ily, it takes some time before all can peruse the
paper, and by coming in and carrying it of, you al
ways disappoint some one. "...-
Then remember the wrongs of the publisher,
who is dependent for bread to great extent, upon
the subscriptions to his paper His wrongs are
none the less in that they are without remedy
The inventors of stove or washing machine have
their rights sufficiently secured, perhaps, by pat
ent; but who will protect the newspaper man a
gainst the borrower? The more subscribers pa
paper has the better and cheaper it may become,
and thusinteigence be disseminated over the land.
Hence the borrower, by failing to pay his part in
sustaining the public press, is doing wrong to
the public. ..a-.,
But what is perhaps of more importance, the
newspaper borrower is inficting pecuniary and
moral wrong upon that very excellent parsonage
himself. We have heard of the penny wise and
pound foolish. Without insinuating anything,
we would say to the newspaper borrower
the value of time spent in quest Of news, add to
this the time lost in going about to borrow, and
sum up the whole by the addition of loss sustained
by not getting the paper regularly, and we think
you will not only have enough to buy paper, but
a nice little sum for the minister besides.
The moral nature is injured by the practice Of
newspaper borrowing, and habit is formed which
is carried into the business Of life. The newspa-
per borrower is ever ready to give you draft on
the future, to pay the present. Frugaity is vir'
tue, but naeanaess is a vice.
81 waive the quantum Of the sin,
(How muchit looks like steang)
And petrihes the feeling"
Thin partitions often divide virtue and vice.
We do not accuse any one of moral delinquency
but really think the newspaper borrower is too near
the line, and would like to see him move further
into the domain of virtue, 80 as to avoid even the
appearance of evil. Consider these things, o, ye
borrowers! and rejoice the hearts of your friends
by taking paper, and then, for the first time, you
win realize the exquisite pleasure of reading your
own paper. Such pleasure as the patriot feels
standing on his own soil, or the homeless, the first
night he sleeps in his own house, that pleasure will
you feel in reading your oaon newspaper. Then
you will owe no debts of gratitude, and have the
proud satisfaction of knowing that you are helping
to support the literature of the country.
"But fare ye well, ye borrowing men,
@, ,wad ye tax a thought and mend
Ye aiblins might dinna KEN"
Mayesrile s. C. KRISS