The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1880-11-11
PAPER WORMS.

appeared,
PAPER WORMS
Brick Pomeroy, III his new pap>r
The Great West, says:
Not one Of our friends would rob us
Of Il dollar, yet they rob us Of s. needed
to help pay the expenses Of this paper,
| when they le it week after week t,
| those who are able to subscribe for it,
1t is rather mean for :; warm man t.
| stand with his minority part to the fire
when the room is filled with those who
| are cold. but that is not SO mean AS to
| imloveriSh an editor by keeping dnZ-
Ell persons in Il nei"hborhood from
subscribing for a paper by lending it.
and thus encouraging Il very bad trait.
| unless the one who borrows IS really un-
able to subscribe and pay for his read
| ing matter. Those who wish to help
an editor to usefulness do not lend
their valuable paper, but kindly ask
their neighbors to subscribe. Is not
| this so?
We long ago gave these borrowers
the name Of Free Lnnchers." We are
satisfied that there is O local ucwspa-
per in the country which suffers more
from this mean practice of regularly
sponging and free lunching than the
ADVANCE. There are all sorts of small
people who will not take the paner be-
cause they do not agree with it in poll
ties. or religion, or Spiritualism. or do
not like the editor personally, or he-
cause they have some other equally
mean motive for not subscribing, but
| almost any one of them will walk Il
mile through blizzard to free luncl,
tine aper from a n+ighbor.
We do not write this expecting to
| shame these newspaper beggars ont of
their coutr,nptihe practice. We wish,
however. to ask onr Subscribers t.
If You are friendly to the paper. yo,;rt
doing us an injury Ivy regularly lending
it. >lI,lb the free luncl,arS
W. learn that old Pap Cran'lall anu
his little jim, {. 3. I.anylon, EraSt,is
Church and Il ID. i rir.r i'll agree o.. CO
more that ''th- ADVANCE has run it's
Career III Wnrtilinytnn What. Gone
up again? Demolished once. more? just
what has heel, said after every election
for the past six years; just what WAS
Said Whe', our Cnnyrtgal ional leg WIS
suspended to appraSr little Ban Der and
Sell; Just What WAS said When the AID
VANCE came cat boldly for free thought
fr.
be said SO long as the .ADVANCErtfuS' s
IT, Il" the bidding of fools. iynornmusrs.
ring politicians and cI'urc', bigotS.
How these worthless propose to tinis|,
the y DVANCE we lave not learned de-
tinitr|y, but we Judge that their plan is
to "wit hdrAw their support' as the
srAtf"l|i'g said to tie building. That
Is. MS ntl; her Of them are subscribers
they intend to quit borrowing the pa
per and rra,lih, i, on the free liirh'
plan. If We can survive this, we can
''vivr anything.
We predict. however, that the AID
VANCE: will way on just as it hl, dom"
heretofore. While the little Journal
t:!iln will cl,ur1l and fret and Snuttrr
to produce il little butter. will raise
subscriptions. make loans. and burn ont
to get the insurance money to keep
their paper going, the ADVANCE will
move right on. like Il steamer down
East RIVER. while the little yawi of Il
JOURNAL will bob and dance around on
the waves produced by the big AD-
VANCE.
The ADVANCE is happy and ''sassy."
1t s paid for and paying. The recent
elect ion, while Oh minor offices it did
not 60 as we wished, scarcely creates Il
ripple on the surface Of the ADVANCE.
The ADVANCE attempts in this
weeks issue to Silk back into the
straight party Ivy SEEMINGLY plausible
reasons for its Dulting; hut it will not
go down with the intelligent people of
this county. journal.
Ii you mean by Tie straight party"
the Dunnell machine. you are only ly-
ing as usual. The ''plausible reasons"
given were just those which We give
during the whole campaign and they
bolt, flop, split IF, or whatever You
choose to call it, whenever we think it
right to do ST..
IT the people Of this county have net
learned hy this timethat the ADVANCE
is just what it claims to be, All indie
pendent Republican paper, they mast
he as obtusr us Il follower of the Jour
nal. We leave tie irregular" brlting.
lying, sniveling, etc., to the Journal
and move right OH rs we have always
done.
RESI-R RECTUM-SOC1AL PROGRESS
EDITOR ADVAN ;E: Social Progress
WAS ''rtsurrtcted" Sunday. I Nov.
n constitution WAS adopted b> Il
vote Of members present..
There being several requests to hold
meetings in different places i'll the
county, Il resolution was passed to the.
effect that when requested 10y ten resi-
deuts Of any school district III the coun-
ty, we would hold Il meeting in that
district Il house being furnished.
a rumor having got abroad that W.
| were rs al association opposed to GER
tain forms Of religion and politics, it
was resolved that we request the pa.
pers to publish Il part of the cons :itu-
ii III of our association, from which it
will be seen that we are opposed to
nothing that is for til" good Of society.
NJ. A. DoANE, Sec'y.
Dr.. Craft performed neat surgical
operation the other day upon a child
Of X w Nnharlv Tho ol,ild xros l>,r,