The Waco daily examiner. [volume] (Waco, Tex.) 187?-1888, 1885-12-25
g stop MY Paper"

These words are sometimes flung
at every newspaper man, but, prop
erly considered, there is little or no
terror in the legend. Ifyou willtake
a good, level look into the eyes of the |
man who .utters il, you will, In nine
cases out of ten, find them weak,
wavering or entirely too close to-
gether. One man says: "Mr. EXAM
rNER, you are too much Of whisky
crat,' you drink too much whisky for
me; stop my paper.' We did that
cheerfully, but suspicious redness
about the eyes, and the point of the
nose, induced us to ask him a few
questions. ain the first place. said
we, @Mr. Jones, you never drink
"No, never. am sober, and I intend
to use all my personal influence and
money, hereafter, against whisky"
Something induced as to follow Mr..
Jones a few squares. We fiually ran
him to earth in the White Elephant.
He was just wiping his lips, aud after
he concluded the effort and had
meandered toward the billiard tables,
we entered. EDO you know this
mann said we. Yes" said the
polite attendant, IL do, and to my
cost. Every time he comes TO town
he spends about dollar with us, but
on the strength of that he buys three
or four drinks more on credit,
not one of which has
ever yet been paid.n We felt
rather glad that we mad him OF our
listy at last. Another man wants his
paper stopped because we do no,
publish all the conr. trials iu full, but
before he ordered his name of the
list somehow, unaecountably, his ac-
count was suffered to run almost a
year overdue. OF course the account
was squared, but at the expense OF
the EXAMINER Another gentleman
says, ~Siop my paper" "Whats the
matter with your" said we. "Well,
III tell you. You have too id much
religion In 1t. am free-thinker.
and lwant TO hear something about
somebody besides Christ and Sam
Jones'" The next man waited his
paper stopped because, while 1t was
not directly profane or impious,
there was exhibited carelessness a.
to sacred things that he did not like
TO see in secular paper. Another
man orders his paper stopped because
we are too much of an anti-prohibi-
ZIONIST; another because we do moi
fight the prohibitionists with enough
vim, do not put enough deart into the
fight. Que man stops because we
are in favor of underground
drainage; another because we
are in favor of surface drain
age. One because we are opposed to
bonding the city, and another because
we are in favor of improving the
streets without bonding.
One old democrat ordered his paper
stopped because we favor free trade,
aud another because we oppose pro.
lection. One good old fellow said:
1Sec here, Mr. ExAMrsER. like you,
but you are In favor of free coinage
of silver, and you have rasped the
president about his anti-silyer theo-
ries. Now, | am with the president
on this matter, and until you come
over must refuse to read my old
favorite." His tears ran down In tor.
rents while talking, and we confess to
a son feeling somewhere under our
vest. But we cut him of the list,
nevertheless.
The millennium will dawn upon the
blessed morning when the man is dis
covered who can get out a newspaper
to please everybody, but we do not
expect to live TO see that day. The
best we can hope to do is to do the
very best we eau, with the means at
hand or a.tainable, and trust TO luck
aud the cooler reflections of the dis
astiafiad