White Cloud Kansas chief. [volume] (White Cloud, Kan.) 1857-1872, 1857-07-09
ELwoop ApvrRrIsr,-Tbe editor Of

ELwocD ADvERTIsER.-The editor Of
the above paper, Is. an exceedingly clever
young man, and no doubt well meaning
in fact. we Ike him, but in his last
weeks issue, he decidedly banks up q
tree with no coon in it. In his eyes. we
have committed the awful crime ofgiying
our opinion of Gov. Walkers Inaugural
Address. in plain manner. Now, friend
Advertiser, we set out with the determin-
alton that, when we saw anything which
we considered wrong or improper, we
would plainly say so-no matter whom
the parties concerned might be-whether
it were common laborer, or the Cover
nor of Kansas. Ours Is not neutral,
but an Independent sheet. A neutral
paper is one that has no opinion to ex-
press on subject containing two sides
but an independent paper is one that says
Just what it thinks-praises when it per-
eeives merit, and condemns when it wit
nesses wrong. without regard to party OF
sect. Gov. Walker came here for the
purpose of pacifying Kansas, and ter
minating the feuds which have arisen
solely out Of the agitation of the slavery
question. As we SAID befare, he should
have set the example, by giving the -ques-
ton the go-by initead of which, his
Inaugural is almost wholly a document
on the subject of sls=ey-as the editor
has no doubt discovered, if, as he says,
he has read it oven so carefully.
AS the Advertiser has discovered Sc
much ultraism in our article regarding
Gov. Walkers Address, will he please
submit it to chemical analysis, and tel
us whether that ultraism favors the Free
State or Pro-Slavcry cause? Was il
because he argued in favor of Free State
for a while, that we objected to it; or,
was it because he afterwards advocated
the side of Slavery Or, was it not,
rather, because his address, which wa:
intended for the whole people of the Ter
ritory, was devoted principally to a sub
iect which hi: already been discussed in
all its bearings, and every time has been
productive of nothing bat difficulty?
Permit us to say another friendly word
to the editor of the Advertiser, by way
of admonition, hmay save him from
rendering himself ridiculous, as he is yet
young, apd probably but little experien'
ced otherwise, to use his own eloquent
language, them fiery steedi Of his may
be permitted to go so rapidly, that he
will wish they had ,cent slow. Our ad-
monition is this: When you write an
article which you consider unusually
sharp, let others be the fist to discover
its merits. If an article possess any very
commendable points, the reader will dis
cover it, without the authors being SO
extremely anxious about it, as to induce
him to boast of it to others, before they
have seen it. We received from the
hands of the editor, a copy OF the Ad-
vortiser containing the Srticlc in regard to
us but being just then engaged, we
laid it aside, until we should have time
to peruse its columns. Being on the
street, short time afterwards, VIC were
hailed by the keeper Of drinking saloon,
who wished to know whether we had
setn the Elwood paper-that the editor
had been in there, and was Dragging to
the fellows, that he had given us raking
down, in his paper! We confess, ii
rather "took US standing"-to think that
a promising young editor, after writing
such laborious and penetrating article,
could not wait for it to be read, but must
proclaim its merits to the jewellers con-
gregated in whiskey shop! Sic transit
gloria Mondoy morning. Requieseat in
pace! o Temporal, o mOres' Nous Yer
rons, dc.