Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1871-06-14

by those whose business it is to know anC
report. Take, for instance,
, THE TRAVELLING SHOW BUSINESS.
The country is a field in which these rang
ers think they have only to Craze and grow
fat. They dread nothing but competition
expecting to encounter no cultivated and ex
acting tastes, and fearing no lash which an
advertisement and a complimentary ticke
can avert. Doubtless you have all had the
curiosity more than once TO watch the notices
Of the press as the show gradually approaches
and then been to see it yourselves only to have
your expecta ions dashed Tuthlessly upon
the rocks Of disappointment. Quite likely
you have copied what your brethren have
said and thus have victi inize your read
ers. Every one OF these mountcbanks count
upon the country press a powerful ally, anc
/ thus, every year, thousands OF dollars aTl
taken from our people by our kindly stupid
liberation, without one single moral less II
being taught, or elcvating influences cXertcd
in return.
There are some catertainments-aye
| travelling entcrtainmcuts-that are worthy
and ought to be patronizad by an. But II
all alike are pleasantly spoken of in those
hackneyei phrases Of reporters, how are we
to know-h0w are the people not familiar
with our respective styles to kn,w-which
is wheat and which is chaf? The pulpil
The pulpit condemns the theatcr in gen
eral, and the provincial theatre m particular
and yet the people w.il 20 TO it just the same,
ana nara as 10 may seem truth cohpei7 ne
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sweep Gack The sea n3r cX'it ItseH ABOVE
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sol.eu .'i'' Ho.it''4l' - ~ @ li1' P'tIi
man or vol5 have adEcraj =, tIc r1ie then
Urnnosed : Notone third Wby2 B.cause
YOU have feared that YOU would thus reduce
your lists Had Won NOT berrer reduce them
bv cverv man VINO does not pav? To De
sure. Verv we'll. then. will any man who
car.s for the paper he willing To- ~ without
il l0u,, when the only clrsldcrarIan I'm the
wav Is the difference between pavinr for il
now and having hv and bv :. But IL
it may be pleaded. :. I charge more for it i.
not Iaid in advance and thereby ma Ike
rather than Lose " ID, Won makc2 Iet
.ucb j subscriber come n and be,in 10 hint
about some other uauer and you sill hardly
stor, to tat, Iano ab-tur rl,,t extra half dol
lar so that - yoI -h.utd f,ure mn the result |
at the end of the year vuu would find thar
Won had not received half nor quarter
cnougb of these extra half dollars To- Offset
those pleasant little papers from y, stul..sters
in all quarters. marked official 80 ard n
formipg YOU thar vour patcr addressed to
sucb a6 one. is refused. or re,n.;ips dead in
the Office. or must be discontinued because
the nostaoe i not Maid No. gentlemen the
grcatost f,ilacv we have IS rrustin- STRANGERS
1or enp tbtt i too -tu.li to colIcci and
then honing to make IL up from those who
raw but viii not nav extra without grud,e.
and then. if cxactcd VIII not renew.
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Twin DroIucF 70 TINS i'4iy is lDd. Oh a..
ceptlng advertisements from those Wlid cats
who Intes5 the cites, claiming to be adyer-
tIsIng agents but saiilrg under different
names ana never paying II we cannot get
sullclent advertising without taxing 10 IIOm
those whom we DO not know, and therefore
ought to know viii never pay, we had better
fill up our papers with blankspace-
same as the darkey would make q cannon