The Robesonian. [volume] (Lumberton, N.C.) 1870-current, 1897-06-30
A SUNDAY SERMON ON SHOP.

all other days III the week. The
class of people referred to are III
every community and all papers
suffer from them. Hoping that
some conscience may be touched
by what the Observer says we
COPY il below. 1t is rs follows:
The travelling representative
of the Observer never returns from
trip without bringing requests
from subscribers that the paper
say something that will If posi-
BILE put its borrower To shame.
He has Just returned from n trip
down the Carolina Central Rail
road and reports the complaint on
this score louder than ever. The
matter ia very serious one to the
paper and certainly it would like
to say something that would help
it's subscribers in the matter. Not |
only does the lending and borrow
ing deprive it of many subscribers
who would otherwise be on its list |
but it has lost many subscribers
whose indignation that they should
have to pay for the paper for 9th
or people to read has 50 far mas
tered them, that they have discon-
,inued it choosing to be without
it rathe than be subjected to
this imposition. They do not
want to offend their neighbors
by refusing to lend to them, and
they take the alternative of dis
continuance. Others who do not
adopt this heroic treatment wrlthe
under the wrong from year to year,
feeling it kcenly but maintaining
their silence. There is a certain
sort of cowardice in this. No man
should hesitate to cry out against
an imposition and put an end to
it. Besides, it must be seen that
a man who will continuously make
ms full use of another man $ prop
erty as that man does himself, can
not be person of very nice sensi-
bites and the chances are that the
withdrawal from him, of privi
lege which he uses without paying
for would not give him offenso af
ter all.
The Observer despairs of it
ability to say any thing whicl
will pierce the hide of the newspa
DER borrower and it has no appea
in the matter except to Its sur
scribers. 1t makes this for thei
sakes as well as its own. Th
good will of a person who will pei
sistently beat upon you is hardl
worth the having, and the ma
who subscribes and pays for
newspaper, like man, ought n'
hesitate to deny to anybody II
right to read his paper before /
and his family do, nor hesitate
tear it up when they have finisht
with it. We frankly avow &c
tain amount of personal feeling
this matter, being aware TIL
those people who curse this p
per most generously are perso
who never subscribe for it nor II
IL copy of it, but borrow it fro
one years end to another fro
better men than themselves.
We ask all subscribers to ma
this article before lending Il
copy of the paper.
Our contemporaries can help
jim this matter, too. We mean
be generous in the matter of {
changing, and the Daily Obser,
is sent on equal terms of exchar
to many weekly papers in SIN
towns-to papers which, in the !
ture of things, can be of little
TO it. There are cases in VIII
the Observer so sent to a weel
paper Ill exchange, affords read
matter for practically the VIII
village the idle citizens calling
it in relays and reading it unit
is worn out. How great a wro
this is will appear to our conte
poraries upon moments ref
ton and they will not be indif
ent to our request of them to
stop to it.
1t is much the habit of SUI
cilious deadbeats to turn up Il
noses at the State papers and W
der why North Carolina can
have great papers such as OF
States have. We have no VIZ
to waste on the deadbeats, but
honest men who pay for this
per We wish to say that NJ
Carolina will never haye a G
paper until subscribers cease Il
ing such as we already have.
will bring the sponges to tie
and they will perforce bee
newspaper subscribers; and
will help them, too, for they
then become more self-respec
and better citizens.