The Van Buren press. [volume] (Van Buren, Ark.) 1859-1914, 1877-09-18
:" Men or Micen immigration Society,

: ed the ire OF the Editor OF the Argus,
} and he spts out his spleen and disap-
pointment as follow:
Argus, September 18Th.
"Thcrc are some men who, like spid
ers, live on selfgencrated poison. Men
who do not see good in anything that
= does not bring notoriety or dollars to
, them. They think money is the COM
mon God, because they pay devotion to
no other. Such men, having no earthly
interest in the country in which they
live, having built no home and invested
no money, are like Arabs, and can 'qul-
etly fold their tents and steal away"
They villity the best men in the commu-
nifty, and take refuge from contempt in
their own insignificancc. The officers Of
our County Immigration Society are
branded by one of these Lilliputian spi-
ders as the leaders Of "a Brindletail
immigration Society"
1t is true we have not built, like the
Argus Editor, home" at our own or
anybody else's expense, and "invested
no money in faro or other bank, but
every dollar we have made, has been by
hard, honest work. and not made or lost
at the gambling table, and has been dis
pensed rs liberally fer the benefit of tho
enterprises of fhe town, as that evinced
b, any OF the ~tadpolos" that cluster
around the Argus office.
OMEN OR MICE"
IF any one of the members Of this So
eiety was insulted, ii was by tho low and
contemplate fling Of the Editor of the
Argus, stigmatizing them as "MIoE" for
the simple reason they had not exercised
that celebrity in paying their dues, that
the necessities Of the Argus Office de-
manded. This is the way they appeal
. ed to their manhood:
Argus September 9th.
There are good many of the sneak
off and 90 to bed" kind in this county.
Our Immigration Society had lot of
pamphlets printed descriptive of the
county, for circulation abroad. These
pamphlets have never been paid for.
Each member Of the Society is, by the
Constitution, required to pay into the
treasury of the Society, Fifty cents, for
the payment eff this bill Up to the
| present time but few have paid their
, dues, although it should have been paid
by the lst of September. Come up
"be men or mice, and pay your Fifty
cents, and don't" sneak off home and 60
} to bed 7" until You have paid it. The
: books are now open, and let every man
| come forward and settle mp. Payment,
can be made to Mr. Geo. Wood, Secreta
~, to Judge Clnpin, or to the local edit
! or OF this paper.
DEAD THE DAY IT WAS BORN.
The fact Of il is, that this Society wa.
killed the day it was born. The pusi
luminous course of the Editor of the Ar
gus and his strikers in the organization
of the Society, and the refusal to let tn,
! PRESS have y copy Of the proceedings
disguised most all the better class an,
@Ss5 RsE IF f Il he ss 59lhsiy a AT in
to sleep that "slecp that knows no wax
, ing Why, from the organization 0
Society to this time, there has not beer
:, meeting, and the Argus who is it
- champion has not made the tainest allu
" sion to the soeicty's efforts in stimulat
W ing immigration. Now, four months nj
ter It's organization, and having..g OH
' the pamphlet and want their pay, tn
7, publishers begin to look about for tn
~ immigration society, and about all the,
find left Of it. is its officers. The Socit
80 ty has disappointed no one (unless it
the publishers of the pamphlet, VIII
y thought they had fat thing) for the
,, expected nothing from Society ANNA
" cd by such spirit.
= 1t is well enough, just at this time, tina
= we refer to an article of ours publishe
:, right after the organization of the Sc
y cicty in May, as follows:
~ On Saturday County Immigratio
VI Society was organized at the Count
lie Court room. A resolution, also, wa
n adopted, authorizing the proceedings t
to be published in all the papers of tn
!. county. The reason for their non-ar
pearancc in this is, we could not get tn
OF proceedings of the meeting. We appl
al ed tot them, Monday morning, carly, an,
IS was informed that they had been givel
ID to the propretors of the Argus, and tina
:, they declined to give them up to MI
Is Chaplin the clerk of the meeting, to ri lr
he pear in this paper. If it was the wisl
1t of the Society that they should be pub
ir iished in our paper. it was no moro thel
, courtesy, as our paper Is issued Tuesda,
>, morning, and the Argus on the Thurs
~ day following, that we should have hat
Id the privilege of copy of the proceed
a ings on application, and it seems to us
% but we may be mistaken, that an Inning
a ration Society in Crawford County. t.
W be success, should have the active sup
g port of everyone. 1t is possible that the
ii short-sighted plicy adopted in this par.
s, ticuIar, may succeed in doing all that the
T. projectors of te Society desire, but We
II think not.
70 How the Church is to be Ruled.