TO BORROWERS OF THIS PAPER.

Pelorus Guardian and Miners' Advocate., Volume I, Issue 3, 31 January 1890, Page 3

TO BORROWERS OF THIS PAPER.

Under the above heading 1 th? Like Country Press has the f illowin,': — The price of the Press is only £1 per annum, if paid in advance. Be independent and don't sponge on your neighbor, f,.r it. any long r. You d>> him wrong as well us. He contributes towards the cost of producing tin* paper, and yoi take for nothing tiiat which has cost something. Perhaps ron are at the same time a fi rce denunciator of the methods of the capitalists, who do, however, pay "something," hut, as you hold, not sufficient for services. Did you ever c >nsider how closely borrowing a newspaper ap. prnaches theft ? The thief appropriates to his own use that w lici do su'c belong to him, depriving the rightful owner of the enjoyment of the special tiling. The borrower of a copy of a newspaper, as we have before stated, takes something for which he gives nothing—extracts all fcli ■ good there is in it—and depriv s the newspaper proprietor of a subscription. Complaint has been made to us that s"rae people in the town do not allow i'up legitimate readers—subscribers—to pursue th ir c >pies of the Press, as they run to borrow before the ink is dry on the sheets. Shakespeare's advice is worth following—" N'eith r a borrower or a len ler be" We find that our actions and our sheet are criticised by none more tiian the selfrighteous borrowers of our pap -r.