The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1853-1911, 1873-03-20

fcel Simple enough over HIS looilsi ehott
without having his name attached to 1t:
MIFFLINvILLE, Pa. March IA, 1873.
THEODORE SCHoCH,
Editor Jefersonian:
In your issue of March 6, 1873, under the
caption "How is this for Local Option" you
give utterance TO sentiments much too low for
decent journalism, and, in the same column,
show vour antagonism to a healthful public
sentiment by publishing the address of the
Temperance Executive Committee only "BY
REQUEST" Please send a statement of my
account and | will enclose check for amount
of my indebtedness per return post, after which
you will discontinue your paper to me.
Our friend, for so we account him, is of
ati-license local option persuasion, and we
are satisfied, that if it had been the other OK
that got gored-that if the figures had been
rcversed-the sentimens of the cOmmualcd-
fioa to which he alludes, would have been
just the thing for decent journalism"
Now we had nothing to do with the COM
munication, save in its publication. 1t APP
pears as the contribution of an outsider-as
an expression of public opinion, after lively
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siderable ageitation among our people, SO
lar only as the few assembled at the East
Stroudslurg Depot were concerned. Its
diction is of the Hcely sort, but we DOUBT
much whether, ION sober second thought, .
even our friend will say that it contains
sentiments much too low for decent journal
ism."
we have published other matters, on the
same subject, which doubtless pleased our
friend, because they were on this side Of the
question. The address Of the Temperance
executive committee" which he says we pub
fish only BY Request, evidently suits
him exactly and yet if it had happened that
our friend had held a way Of thinking con-
trary to hat promulgated by the address,
he would have been shocked equally by the
sentiment as expressed by its authors. Both
their publication, and both were published
CONTEMPLATION a word of comment from
us. Being respectful i'll language, void OF
personality, and mere squibs in favor of the
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Our duty demanded that we should allow
both to be heard, and we should have been
culpably remiss if we had refused. Let both
be heard, then truth will have an equal
chance with error in the scramble for right
and power. That our friend does not think
50 is his misfortune. We can pity him but
we cannot help him.
But our friend is determined to mend the
matter in his own way. The last paragraph
il his communication sets this forth in mode
not to be gain said. He is going to stop
lis paper, and, perhaps, is even now
anxiously awaiting to hear the crash as the
JcfIersonian tumbles aboutour ears in punish
mant for our temerty. Other reformers,
with hardshell ideas, have essayed the same
thing with other independent Journals, but
the Journals lived on, and it was only the
seformers who passed under a cloud. Our
friend has dcubtly heard of the little dog
who harked vociferogsly, at the moon to pre-
vent It's shining-but the moon kept on shin
1ng and continues to shine to this day, while
the little dog died long ago, and his name
has passed into oblivion.
We regret this thin-skinncd display on the
part Of our friend-a display which p%ronoun-
ces him such an autocrat in sentiment, that
while he claimes the right Of free thought
for himself, demands that every one else
shall think as he does, and fnly believe that
he himself will join in our regrets when he
coues to reflect on the beginning of the end
as he presents it.
We publish the JEFFERsoNIAN after our
own idea as to how u good newspaper should
lie published. For the subscription price we
conceive that We give a return, in full value,
to each subscriber. When subscribers don't
ike oar course, or when they think that, by
publicity to both sides of a question,
of so much Importance as that involved in
an local optlon-or any other, we commit an
unpardonable sin, they have only to step up
10 the captains Office" settle their bills,
and have their names erased from our sub
scriptioh Books. We shall, in the mean
time, so on in the even tenor of our own
way, nothing doubling that we shall succeed
as well without as with them.
Others have tried on us the remedy
essayed by our friend, but still we live, and,
many Of them, ashamed of the littleness of
their souls, are again on our subscription
and among the most liberal OF our friends.
we have been requested to contradict the
statement made in the new Temperance
organ, "The Qaeston Of the Day,' that the
for which Charles Staples is now con-
in our county jail, was committed at
the Forks Hotel" The whole affair oc-
cured ut the New Mt Pleasant House, -
Kept by James Wilson, ir., and not at the
Forks Hotel, +" which is at least half a mile
away We are assured that this is the fact,
we think it but justice to let the matter