Kentucky Irish American. (Louisville, Ky.) 1898-1968, 1914-12-12
Wants Subscribers to Pay For
Life Time Subscrip-
tiOns.
The Publisher Sees Beginning of
the End of the A. p. A.
Movement.
WANTS SOME GETAWAY MONEY

Attention of our readers is called
to the hard luck story of the editor
of the Peril, an A. P. A. sheet, which
has been published at Wilkesboro,
North Carolina, and which only re-
Gently canvassed it's subscribers in
Louisville for the purpose of moving
its plant (Which according to the
appeal does not seem to be much of
a plant) to this city for publication
The last edition of the Peril was
composed of one sheet, printed on
one side only ana was headed r.The
Special Appeal Edition." the editor
and publisher requesting that his
dupe following come forward with
$5 each to assist him in buying a
linotype machine and press to cost
$1,000, but does not explain what
became of the thousands of dollars
he received for support in the past
and which was growing by thousands
weekly. The Peril publisher further
confesses that he only sent out two
papers the last two months, but
jollies his subscribers, who are COM
planning, that in his next installment
he will publish more Disclosures of
the Horrible Workings of the De-
troit House of Good Shepherd" He
further states that the Peril will
make special campaign against the
houses of the Good Shepherd and
that the battle cry of the Peril will
be Down with the houses of the
| onA haf of -
In wanting to move his plant, and
also pleading for what he terms "life
subscribers" this smooth-tongued
disturber acknowledges the hand
writing on the wall, that the end of
the A. p. A. movement and per9ecu-
tion is in sight. The following is his
appeal as printed in the Peril:
81 am going to make a personal
appeal to every subscriber and
friend of the Peril to help me buy
linotype machine and printing
press SO that | can set up, print the
paper and send 1t out regularly.
have been hiring my type set and
printing done in Winston-Salem, N.
c., eighty-five miles from Wilkes
boro, and by the time l paid my
printing bill, freight bill, and my
own expenses in going to Winston
Salem to read the proof and help
make up the print forms, the ex-
penses of getting out the paper and
sending 1t out ate up my receipts
from subscriptions.
For the sake of the cause the
paper represents, and because Of the
hard work that have put on the
publication to make IL a power
against the Roman political machine,
| appeal to every subscriber and
friend of the Peril to read my plan
to raise fund Immediately to buy
a linotype machine and printing
press. SO that l can print the paper
regularly and send II out. and to
help me raise the fund.
"A linotype machine will cost me
$4,000 and a printing press $4,000,
making a total cost of $1,000. Here
Is my plan to raise this amount: A
lifetime subscription TO the Peril II
50, and a Observation-Disclosures Ii
Isl. II the majority OF my subscrib-
ers will send me a lifetime sub.
scription, and those who can not pos
sibly spare the So for lifetime sub.
scription will send me 81 for a five
year-subscription. will have the
money to fully equip the publica-
ton. Now. i appeal to every one ol
my subscribers and friends to send
me s5 for a lifetime subscription
which win be only small amount
from you. but which will mean
when all your lifetime subscriptions
are put together, sufficiently large
amount for me TO fully equip the
Peril and make II full-fledge(
weekly, which shall make II al
soon as l get the new equipment In
stalled. AS stated above. II you car
not possibly spare IS TO put you OF
my subscription list for life, send m'
~ for five years"