Blue-grass blade., 1895-01-13
You Amt Going to Hear any More
Kicking About People Not
Paving Me.


II there is one thing that is more dis
yustiug than another about these little |
one horse, cross roads editors, it is their
eternally begging people to pay up their
subscriptions, and to subscribe for their |
newspapers.
Well you are never going to see any |
thing like that again in the Blade. l
have never asked anybody to take the
Blade, and never intend to, but was
fool enough to suppose that third, or
possibly half, Of the Christian people
of the United States would not steal, and
from various reasons sent my paper to
hundreds of these, if not thousands,
saying to them that relied upon their
honor either to pay me, or to inform me
that they did not want the paper. This
explanation stood all the time i'll my
paper. and when sent the bills to them
after they had taken my paper one year,
or two years, there we're not more than
five per cent of them that paid any at
tention to me.
In some instances infidels played this
game on me, but, as far as | am able to
find out, the men who oftenest did it
were devout Christians, and there are
plenty of these right here in Lexington
who will steal Just as soon as they think
it will pay to do so.
I have found out some surprising
things about men. You may go around
this town, and pick out five Christian
men of fair average standing, and four
out of the five will beat me out of dol
lar, when they think they have clear
chance to do so, and they will think they
have done Gods service in doing so,
because am an infdel, just as the whole
Christian world, for centuries, have rob
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iufidelity.
In order to discharge my obligations
to those who have paid me in advance
have cut off from my subscription list
every fellow who is not paid in advance
and | don't intend to credit anybody
and am going to mark every man of
nv list lust as soon as he fails to pay III
advance for my paper.
have had lots Of fellows to brag or
me and say was regular angel, ano
the smartest man in the United States
and that was the only editor that wa:
built my way, and that they just coult
not get along without the Blue Gras.
Blade, and it was all mighty funny, ant
mighty nice, as long as the other fellows
were catching hell, but when their tiin'
came to take their own little medicine
like little men, they did not want to d.
II, anu HuuuICuo vi thSSS SOe NNNh "As'
me- by beating me out of what they owe'
me for my paper.
But from this on, the man who get
this paper without paying for it, is wei
come to it. If you get it straight fror
me, and not from an agent who buys hi
Blades each week and sells them to yor
you will find, printed after your address
the time to which you are paid, and
YOU think that is not marked right yo
must tell ME in the beginning and no
wait until your subscription is abou
out, and then complain that you hav
not been properly credited.
My terms are $500 year for rlc
people, and $I.oo year for poor people
as you will see at the top of the frs
page, in big letters, and you must b
your own judge, as to whether you ar ar
rich or poor, and if you specially motif
me, when you send your money, tha
YOU take advantage of the "poor man
rates" you will get the paper for on
year for SI.oo. If you do not thus not
fy me You will be charged at the Sac
rate, and l wont change it afterward.
If make any mistake will be glad t
rectify it.
If you want to help me, and want t
take my paper shall appreciate it, br
l am not going to beg anybody to tax
it, or beg anybody to help me.
I want to feel free to say what thin
ought to be said, and 1 do not want t
be handicapped, or in any way embal
rassed, by feeling that have resorted t
any means to induce any man to rea
my paper who does not like its tont
and if any man reads it Iwant to feel tina
he is doing so because he wants to hea
what have got to say.
A great may people have explained t
me how ought to edit this sheet
shall continue to edit it according to NJ
own notions.