Cedar Falls gazette. [volume] (Cedar Falls, Iowa) 1860-1895, 1860-04-06
Iowa Weekly Visitor.

Iowa Weekly Visitor.
| The Iowa Weekly Visitor, Of which Mrs
|CDwAsDs is q srcss and proprieteress, pub
Eiished at E~Stdgo, Iowa County, Iowa.. 4
|scams is heetiG with considerable opposit
'ionfrom certainyrntlemen, who, having failed
to successfully compete with men, are nov
engaged in trying to destroy the business o
What q noble enterprise rg
: We-arc almost entire strangers to the US
iter, or its lady editegess, and equally so with
the citizens Of that County, having been ir
the State but short time; but if it is pa
per worthy Of the support Of the people, as
we understand it is, in every sense Of the
word, and the residents Of that County allow
it to be "run out" by male bipeds, calling
themselves men, then our estimation Of Their
honor, their manliness and good sense, will
wonderfully decrease. ts.s or M
There are but few occupations in which a
woman can engage; and in these few, it is
with bard struggling that she is able to exc
out an existence. Thcn, under these circum.
stances, for a5le-5odicd men to step in and
crush her down, and for the public to assist
them in their nefarious object, is transac.
ton unworthy Of being enacted in civilized
country. MOI citizens Of Iowa County, do
not disgrace yourselves; but stand by your
old County paper SO long as it may remain
worthy Of your patronage. Convince those
gentlemen, who ale endeavoring to usurp the
rights Of Mrs. EpwARps, that there still re
mains in your bosoms honor and manliness
with due sympathy for a lady left to guide
,heribark alone, through the troubled sea O.
Lieloi a Aaa 2ai @ E
!, We copy the following sensible remarks OF
this subject from the Franklin Record.
~ !" The Editress of the Iowa Weekly Vssito,
gives a most dismal account Of the financia
condition of that Journal IA general impress
sion that the Visitor must stop, appears TO bt
widely prevalent in Iowa County and vicini
ty, and since such an impression got abroad
as might have been expected, the list of sub
scribers has been growing small by degrees
and beautifully less.' The lowest pitch o
endurance seems to have been reached at last
and we are told that there win be a suspension
within two or three weeks, if prospects az
not brighten, We infer from the ic;.,;er +
the issue of March 4th, that tinere IS some
where powerful influence at work to crush
out the tsisitor, so powerful that the propri
etressi iispairs Of successfully contending
against it. sis angs ,L5atl5@7
!" Now we are wholly unacquainted with
the character Of the inhabitants of Iowa Coun.
ty, but unless they differ greatly from thu
population of the rest of the State, and are
wholly destitute of manly feelings, the paper
edited by Mrs. Edwads, and so ably edited
too, will not fail tor lack Of generous support
A lady, and she widow, comes forward and
appeals to them to support their old county
paper, to assist her to make living, and i
they do not respond to this appeal in such q
manner as to place her above all fear Of sus-
pension then God help Iowa County, for il
needs His help badly. -, ~ 81 |''s
The worst feature of the affair is, however
that this opposition to the Hisitor originated
with certain parties, who, failing to keep q
newspaper running alongside the Vinton Ea
gte, lncontnently dried up operation II
Benton Comfy and moving to Marengo, com
menced publishinga journal alongside tho
Visitor, probably thinking that Mrs. Edwards
could be more easily run out then Ton
Drummond. Abstractly considered, Messrs
Van Meter & Sargent have right to publish
a newspaper in Marengo if they please, and
SO they have . right to steal a leg ofpork if in
state of absolute starvation, but we cannot
but think that any high minded man would
as soon supply his necessities in the latter way
as in the former. Pray tell us, gentleman
editors and proprieturs of the Iowa Valley
Democrat, cannot you hoe corn, and engag,
in many other useful employmeuts which
Mrs Edwards cannot engage in? And ther
only think how much better you would look
and how much more fitted you are to STUMP
aflera plow, than to write and print execrabll
articles in opposition to widow lady" isg
q .2.-. $40 rfEffss SEyr-.f