Cedar Falls gazette. [volume] (Cedar Falls, Iowa) 1860-1895, 1860-08-31

tors, machine which obviatcs the necesst,
Of running grain through tanning mill, ant
at the same time effects a saving Of both
grain and labor. This machine is the invcn
ton of our fellow-townsman HENRY G.
OvERxAN, Esq, and promises to be one o.
great utility. We understand that the nee.
essary steps have been taken towards procu.
ring patent, and we shall have more to say
about it hereafter. ...
WAysis a,-Is the Waterloo Courier d
Democratic sheet? or is it neutral in politics
Surely, lift were Republican paper, and
anxious to promote the interests Of its party,
it would at least make mention in its columns
of Republican Mass Meeting to be held in its
own County. especially when that meeting
promises to be Of more than ordinary import.
ancc,-so much so that other papers through.
out the State, far and near, deem it of suf6-
cient interest to receive favorable notice in
their editorial columns. But the Waterloo
Courier, the official paper ofthe County, pub
lished only some seven miles distant from the
proposed place Of meeting, and, withal, pro-
Tossing devotion to Republican principles,
does not deem the proposed Republican Mass
Meeting to be held in this place on Thursday
next of sufficient consequence to receive even
the slightest mention in its columns. Why
is this2 Is it because the Courisr's interest
in the PRONUNCIATION and success Of Republi-
can measures is on the wane2 or is it rather
because the gathering is to be at Cedar Falst
If the former, we are very sorry that the edi-
tors Of that sheet should have no more stami-
ma than to allow themselves to be drawn into
a luke-warm and back. Sudden state by the
false dogmas Of their Democratic exchanges,
and sincerely hope that some good porking
Republicans will make it their especial duty
to arouse the Courier to senADof its obliga-
tons to its constituents. If the second de-
duction be the correct one, (and we are rather
inclined to that beliefO we do not envy the
hearts nor the heads that prompt the editors
Of the Courier to pursue the course they long
since marked out for themselves, and which
they still persistently follow, and to their own
detriment, if they but knew ii. If this were
the only occasion in which by their deter
mined silence they have given US reason to
believe that they are hostile to everything
concerning our place, we might believe that
there was some mistake at this time; but
they have too repeatedly followed tins course
Of action for us to allow them the benefit of
such doubt. To cite one case: The Cedar
Valley Agricultural and Mechanical Associa-
tion," which hold its annual fairs at this
place, is an organization in which every in
telligcnt man in this. section Of the Valley is
interested. We know that the readers of the
Courier are interested in it, and would gladly
find something in its columns relative to it.;
but they must look in vain, for that paper
never condescends to advocate home interests,
be they but outside Of the corporation limits
Of Waterloo. We would not have the Cour-
Ter suppose that we are feeling bad in the
least over the matter, and that we consider it
at all necessary to have its influence in order
to have things go off right Far from il; We
are only finding fault with the spirit which
too plainly shows your reasons for such a
course Of procedure. What if Cedar Falls
and Waterloo are in such juxtaposition as of
necessity to be rival towns? Does the Courier
suppose that by entirely ignoring the exist
ence Of any such place as Cedar Falls, and
by not deigning to allude to any measures of
public interest that may have their origin
here, that thereby they viii effectually sguelch
us out of existcnce, and by refusing to speak
in their columns Of what we have done, or
propose to do, render all measures having this
as their center failure? If this be the sup
position on which your grim silence is based,
keep right on, dear friends, in the path you
have marked out, and when you have attain.
ed the object of your laudable endeavors, just
let us know.
The proposed Mass Meeting to be held here
on the 9Th prox. is one in which all the Re.
publicans Of this section are interested; and
moreover, is not entirely Of Cedar Falls origin.
The Republicans of this part Of the State
were DESTROYS Of having Grand Mass Meet
ing called at some central point, easy Of &C.
cess, where they could al meet together and
give public expression to the interest they
feel in the cause of Republicanism, and Sc
lected this point as the one most suitable for
the occasion. And it became the duty of the
Courier to announce the same as q matter Of
news, if nothing more, and in which most, il
not all, Of the readers Of that paper feel an
in.erest, especially the Republican portion,
whom it is not reasonable to suppose share
in the personal spite that prompts the editors,
and are not of the opinion that the interests
of the party should be sacrificed on the un-
hallowed shrine Of personal ill-will. We are
sorry to zee the Courier pursue course that,
to say the least, does not place them in an
enviable light before the common sensed por-
ton Of the community. Towards Waterloo
and the Courier, we entertain none but friend
" feelings, and are too charitable to suppose