The commonwealth. (Scotland Neck, N.C.) 1896-1929, 1900-11-29
NORE "D'S" TAIN I'D. D's."

Dear, dlsinterested, disregardful,
discouraging, doubIy-dunned, delin-
uuent subscribers, we beg your atten-
ton for few lines. Some of you are
entitled to more DIS than any D. D.
we have ever seen or heard of; and If
you'll read along we'll prove it by the
adiectiyes We have already used.
You are ssdear" TO US, as fact, or
we should never have gone to the
trouble to prepare copy, with scissors,
pen and pencil, have it set in type,
printed on paper and sent to you as
long as We have without one cent OF
pay. Now, don't you think this point
pretty we'll proved?
You are 'disenterested" in all this
performance, or you surely would have
paid something for it, or at least would
have said "thank' ZEE" some time. Now,
don't you think this point is also
proved?
You are "disregardful," or you
would have given some heed to the
occasional reminders we have printed
that somebody was falling behind in
paying subscriptions. Don't you
think go?
You are "discouraging," for however
ambitious the editor of The COMMON
WEALTH may haye been to make an
impression upon the world as an editor,
YOU haye not even written that you
get the paper-but if you did not
get it your postmaster would notify us.
Now, is not this also proved conclu-
siyely?
You are "doubly-dunned," for every
time you have received the paper
after you ought to have paid tor it,
and have thought about the editors
hard work on it and the printers hard
work, and the trouble the paper-maker
and the ink-maker all have had to
get upa paper for you to read for
nothing, your conscience has smitten
you and told you twice over that if
you are not able in any way to pay for
the paper you ought to tell the editor
50, and If you are able to pay for it you
ought to do it. Now, don't you think
thisis we'll proved also?
You are delinquent" tor your sub
scrlption Is due more than a year.
(This article does not apply to any one
who does not owe as much as one
dollar.) Your paper has been printed
and mailed to you and the postage
prepaid on 1t for you just as promptly
for more than a year as it has been io1
those who paid year in advance.
By q common acceptation of the
term we mean by delinquent" that
one has let such matter run Longer
than he ought. Now, finally, don'
you think this point is proved?
If you have been getting this paper
more than year without paying s
cent ON it, don't you think you arr
far enough behind to be called ode
linquent"f
To make the matter short and plair
to any who may not have already taker
the hint, the editor of The COMMON
WEALTH thinks that he ought to hea
something at least once a year from
every subscriber. We let you hea
from us more than half hundred
times a year and it does seem that it j
rs little as any falr-minded man coult
do to let us hear once a year with 8
dollar, or why the dollar is not fortl
coming.
Farmers have been getting goo,
prices for their crops this year; AM
every day laborers and all other laborer
who are not too lazy to work hay
been getting good employment. L
fact, there is more nearly what we ca
"flush times" this year than we hav
seen in many. And in view of all thI
we make bold to soy that you deli,
quents ought to pay up.
Now, dear delinquent, if dire misfo
tune has befallen you, we do not mea
for one word of all this to apply to you
but if not, we do. We simply mea
this: Please send Us that amoun
(which - at least dollar.
"VERBUM SAP"