The Belmont chronicle, and farmers, mechanics and manufacturers advocate. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1848-1855, 1853-02-18
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Mn. EDrroR:-It is so very seldom that
attempt TO perpetrate, anything for the public
prints, must necessarily be liable 10 more o.
less bIuDders. With hope that YOU will make
due allowance for the same, viii proceed.
seldom feel an attack Of coacoettes scriJendi,
and heretofore, when did have succeeded
in stavingit off by writing pagsor two and
then consignng it, not to the "cold charities
OF the reading public, but to the flames, whctc
can assure young asprants for literary no
tcriely, their productions will always meet
with u wartn reception. 80
would not now ntrude myself on your
time or your columns, was it not that con-
slider il 10 be my doty to expose ali act Of fla.
grant injustice, yea, an Outrage upon commu.
nifty.
Long years ago, some one thought and
wrote the phrase-A" Honesty is the best poll
icy!' We were taught it ut our granjam's
knee in days Of yore, and our stern old puri-
ancal forefathers considered any infringe
ment Of that sentiment as the most "da mna-
blc hcrcsy." Generation after generation
came up, saw the maxim, gave it sincere
though tacit approval by their lives OF excm-
plary probity, and passed away.--Those
that are still passing over life's, stage sec,
written on the eternal hills, this phrasc-im-
mutabe as Death. Notwithstanding all this.
however, here, in the after part Of the 10Th
century there appears man who, with the
most unblushing efTrontery attempts to set
aside this time-lonored truism With the
most brnzen faced Impotence he huris tie lie
right in the very teeth OF our honored fathers,
and declares that provctb tubs an obsolete
idea.
But to be more explicit. There has been
within the last few weeks, pcdlar pcrambu-
iatlng our section of county, selling grave
stones. An honorable occupation, withal,
but one thAt is as subject to embrace impos-
tors as avocations less ghostly. This timer
ant member oi the craft does not reflect any
very considerable amount OF credit on his CO.
laborcrs. He sets out with the false position
that Honesty is mol the best policy" and in
his business transactions, he seems to stend
up nDbly toshis text. He not only praises
his own wares most voiuby, but he pal lubly
misreprcscns the business and artistic merits
OF others. Now that he should speak highly
tlonal, and SO long as he goes no farther,
shall not offer the slightest ohjectiou-Jut
When he unhesitatingly declares his intention
to cheat ind scriminatciy, rW speak out.
He says that he is '.det,rmincd 10 scIl-to a
Jew he would be compelled TO sell under price
out in the main he would more than cJmpcn-
safe himseli by tltecug others" position
not only ccnsorious, but outrageous.
Some OF the ncshbors are even now MI
king the most Ptiabe lamentations utter
having undergone the process Of being skin
ned, By this "@ipr,"
One object had in view in this article,
was that you would be SO good as to reter US
10 some reliable workman-one in hose in
tcgrity we can have confidence, und whom
you can freely recommend.
My own opinion is that the contracts for
work already entered into with thia feilow, are
not binding, because he is unable to iulfl them
as proposed. Whether they are or not, time
will Show. SMITH TOWNSHIP.