Saint Lucia Gazette. Vol. 4, No. 140. January 28, 1835. Castries, Saint Lucia. Page. 4 THE PRINTER’S TEN COMMANDMENTS. The Editor of the Pawtuket Chronicle issues ten commandments, calculated for the meridial of Yankee land. He has our thanks for the hint; a strict observance to them would most surely add to the happiness of editors and subscribers in a southern latitude. We profess to have faith in the creed, and hope the time is not far distant when the commandments will not only be professed, but practiced by every newspaper patron in the United States. THE TEN COMMANDMENTS. 1. - Thou shalt subscribe for the paper printed in thine own country. 2. - Thou shalt not take the newspaper without paying the subscription money punctually; for printers are a race of men deserving to be fed of the fat of the land; and to have their purses filled with the riches of the earth, though they seldom get either. 3. – Thou shalt not steal another’s articles and publish them as thine own. 4. – Thou shalt not write prose or insane rhyme; and expect thy vile effusions to be published as the outpourings of youthful genius. 5. – Remember the advertisements, and keep the printer blessed with the fullness thereof. 6. – That thou shalt not borrow thy neighbour’s newspaper, nor any thing else that is his, but go to him that hath to sell and buy for thyself. 7. – Thou shalt not fly into a passion when thy milk and water communications, and thy stolen thoughts, are rejected by the editor. 8. – Honour the Contemporaries of the type and quill, and set always a good example before thy brother’s eyes. 9. – Remember the ladies – and beware. For if thou presumptuously prevail on them to marry, the clerk of the Court shall issue his license, and thou shall be brought unto the altar, and there be made to exchange thy state of single blessedness for one of double dolefulness, and thenceforth have no more peace. 10. – Beware of meddlers and double faced politicians, of sea serpents and common scolds. “Evil communications corrupt good manners.” - Glasgow Courier.
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