The Lake County star. [volume] (Chase, Mich.) 1873-current, 1875-04-01
A L0VGlV Trio,

al Fl which WEAR fictitious sigma
tnres. W. de- not wonder at the
suppression sf the true names sI
the writers, Ter We ean imagine how
anyone stooping to the dirty work
Of circulating damaging rePorts
about u thriving portion of cuI
comfy, out Of spite, must feel toe
much shame, ar fear Of the well
deserved csntsmpt OF honest citi-
xens, to allow his tine name to bs
published.
The fret article evidently comes
from that Traveller" who has be-
co'us sccoriine To lis own state
msnt, SOBER" and tries to o.,
something cutting. That his mind
was too much ''fuddlsd" with pref
udice, envy and spite to enable him
To write = common sense article,
shows itsclf in every line. From
the fact That there is no point t.
the habblinxs, We pass it BY with
ont further notice.
In communication No. 2 we have
unmisiakabls ssr.marks Of an in
dividual who lives within less than
twenty miles VI Baldwin. IL.
doubtless will deny that he aor0tI
the article signed "Civis;" but ii he
don't say that he sndorses il, We are
greatly mistaken in the man. This
article No. 3 was gotten up by enc
who had . feeling If enmity tow
ards Bald win, aud snsaks behind u
fictitious name in order to bolster
up ois feeble courage % that hs may
give vent to il. AZ rantins spec.
linen Of stupidity aud vsnonneus
weakness, the article Of "Civis" al
moot exceeds the attempts of the
managers ofihs srxan ITSELF Strict
~ speaking, the article amonnts to
nothing whatever BY way OF arEu-
msnt against Baldwin az the Coun
ty Seat, for "Civis" unwittingly
says at the very outset Of his writ
ing that "if tho majority Of the
bona fdS citizens Of the county
wants 1t there Qhs County Seat at
Baldwin, 1t is all right aSs 1t should
90 there" A sensible writor wuuld
have ended with that paragraph;
but "Civis" dos't belong to tina,
class. Having admitted, Indirectly,
that Baldwin WAS proper place for
the County Seat, No then, with v
At once both "child'ikc
and bland" goes ON to show TO his
readers that he writes against Bald
win because he has . spite against
it. How n,uch weight will such ar.
tlcles have with honest citizens!
Not a straw.
We might properly pass by the
article Of "Civis" without further
netics, were it not for certain un-
just differences and misrepresenta-
tons it contains. A person ~nac-
quaintsd with the facts regarding
Bald win might 10 led t. infer ire,u
reading the article Of 'Civis" tina,
that the society Of Baldwin is in
temperate, Immoral and ignorant.
There never was moro unjust
statement published. 1t 10 true
that baldwin has two saloons 1t
may 10 the only town in Lake
county where liqsor can be had,
but we doubt it. That il il, or "hss
been from the first a noted place
for drunkness," We most emphatic
ally deny. The statsmcn's in re-
gard to religious services and school.
are partly true; bnt mostly gsrblsd
TIE rsasou why the
remained away was be-
cause no chose to DO 81, and notbs
cause there was no place for him to
beard. Siekrsss prevented his re-
to Baldwin FIR several
weeks, and It was not deemed nee
sssary to hold a place for meetings,
when there, was no certainly Of
being held. The school
vas dropped mainly through The
inability at contractor 10 cornplsts
he school house. School was not
'ssumcd Immediately after holiday
vacation by reason of delay in max.
ny trifling repairs to the baildiHy
occupied a. school house. But we
understand that the teacher him
elf proposed, that Instead sf max
NJ repairs on the old building, Tho
'clleol rs'nained closed until the
lev houss was completed. 1, bs.
lot been 20 muci, a lack Of enter
Prise on the part 1t the people, ~
. chain Of circumstances preventing
matters from s'.inx ON differently.
There seems 10 have been no lack
4 .'sn,srprise' on tho l'a't # the