The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1871-09-28
DISCOURTEOUS -DISHONORABLE
DISHONEST.

Hon. Moses e. Cheney was advertised
to lecture on Music at the Methodist
Church in this city week ago this evea
ming Sitting beside Mr.. Cheney at sup,
per on the evening Of the lecture, he said
inquiringIy, "There is notice of the lee
ture in the TELEGRAPH of today" to
which we replied, perhaps so; Notices
are sometimes left with the foreman
which we do not see till we see them in
the TELEGRAPH, and having been to the
Fair this afternoon we have not looked
over the TELEGRAPH and do no. know
whether there is a notice of the lecture
or not"
The next morning Dir. Cheney called
at our Office and said he called to apollo
gize for the discourtesy with which we
had been treated in not being presented
with ticket of admission to his lecture.
He said he had made an arrangement
with the Methodist Society to give a lee
ture and to receive half the gross receipts
in payment for the lecture, and that the
Society was to make all the arrangements
and be at all the expense Of the lecture.
That he thought the Society had made ar
engagements for publishing notices of the
lecture and had treated the press with
due courtesy. That he knew so we'll the
courtesy of lecturers and societies due the
press that if he had known the evening
before that we had not been furnished
with ticket of admission he would him
self, though not his business, have pre-
sented us with ticket. Not knowing
whether ticket had been left at the of.
fee for US or not, we called the foreman
into the office and inquired how many tick
cts had been left at the Office, and was in
formed that there had not been any left,
that he had been offered one ticket only
to admit seven and that he had refused to
receive it. We then said to Mr.. Cheney
that we could not see why the Methods
Society should not pay for publishing
notices of his lecture, as well as any other
Society or person for publishing notices
of any other lectures, that any effort to
obtain admission of the notices through
the foreman without paying for them
was dishonorable and dishonest, and that
the offer Of one ticket was an insult, but
that he, Mr.. Cheney, was not responsible
for it, and that we should accept his ex
PLANTATION and apology for himself.
As we charge others, and we believe
the charges of the TELEGRAPH are as low
or lower than the charges of papers of
equal circulation in other cities, we are
entitled to charge the Methodist Society
$40 for publishing the notices of Mr.
Cheney's lecture. And unless some good
reason can be given why we should make
the Society a gratuity of that amount, the
Society is honorably and honestly bound
to make payment. And in the making
Of gratuities we alone are to be consulted
We have never authorized the obtaining
of gratuitous notices through the foreman,
any more than the obtaining of gratui-
tous money through the foreman. In all
matters OF gratuity we alone have the
the right to decide for ourself. In re-
cent Charitable Enterprise, fiddler. who
had in part charge of it, had the right
view as to who should be consulted in
the making of gratuities. He called on
us in person and inquired what we would
do in publishing notices and printing
bills. What was courteous, honorable and
honest, for fiddler to do, in this respect
would be courteous, honorable and honest
for Religious Society to do through its
representative.
IF this was the first and only case of the
kind we might let it pass without public
notice, but, judging from the past, if the
present case is allowed to go without pub
LEFTY and reproof there will be an at.
tempt at repetition. Last June the Ora