Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1879-08-04
ovIsBILIOUs NEIGHBOR.

We hope OF readers will excuse the space we occu-
ly in this st reply to our neighbor. M. Camp Of
he Express We have had considerable sparring with t
him the book question, and have tried to make
1T as pleat and fair as possible. But his replies
have beenbitter. They have all been intended to /
wound. Edoes not seem to have the disposition. or |
the abilityo stand up for fair fight. His blows are
always wi fiat hand and very liable to fall be-
low the cit. When he stabs it is in the dark. and
from theear with duh knife. There is no manly
/ fighting him.
i In hislk on the schoobook question, and in his |
replies the MONITOR, he has attempted two things:
rst toow that his course In srenuously advocating
he keeig of the old books in the schools has been
pure ananselfsh one, and, Second. that the course
ofeverydy else who has had anything to do with the
matter,ls been base and selfish. From his Pharisa-
4 ical enence, he has looked down on a terribly
wickedDrld.
Perhs it may be of interest to look this matter up,
and seehether Mr. Camps position and course have
been aslre, as unselfsh. and holy he assumes.
whetheome of the terrible pictures that fit across
his via do not result from his cold, selfish and
morb5tture.
Tore only to what has occurred in the little
: scrrmas between the MONITOR and the Express, we
mt ms that Mr.. Camps articles have all shown
te clovefoot of selashness. eve call the articles
dr. Camp because they have his peculiar style. If
our leade wish to distinguish between Mr.. Camps
and r Stvart's writings, they may know Mr. Camps
by aelr duness. He always uses lead or pewter for
hismetal. nd his ponderous sentences always fall
IN hesy thud; when he would be bright, his
: fililancy geams like the bottom of an iron skillet;
Fhen he sees to be deep profound. his profundity
as dark ami uncertain mud-puddle; when he
wakes position, it is always with leg either side
tor the fence when he states opinion it is always
with proriso If he seeks to combat argument
ian enemy he tries to fall upon it or upon him and
crush the victims by dead weight. But we do not
care to criticize Mr. CAMPS stva OF n.ri,ia.
Ness ourselves to the question whether ne reahy 10
= 10 and unselhsh as he assumes to be-
i camp educated from boy to seek and
to expect honors and emoluments from the world.
While quite young man, he sought and obtained,
through the influence OF friends. place IN the Legs
lature and from that day to this his lips have always
been puckered for of an agreeable and pay
ing teat Sticking to his position. he grew into the
cerkship of the House, and made most excellent
clerk. When he lost this position, he turned his long
ing eyes to Uncle Sam, and asked for postofce Fail
ing to obtain this he succeeding in getting into the
Legislature member and again, true to his nature
sought the highest place there, as speaker His plan
ings and yearnngs did not win in this instance Nc
place that has promised reward honor, unless it
have been position in the army during the war, has
escaped his notice. We need not speak of position
on the Board of Education and other quite prominent
places he has attained to- By his connections witt
the Board of Education, his firm made the depos
itors and agents for the sale Of schoobooks for th
county. Since receiving the inside track the sail
Of the schoolbooks thrifty nelghbors have enlarg
ed their business by book and stationery store, al
legitimate Of course, but the result Of Mr.. Camp
connection with The State School Board. and of hi
happy faculty of turning everything to his pecuniar
advantage.
So long accustomed to drawing support from outsid
sources, Mr. Camp, though one of the makers of tn
present law, looked upon it with alarm. 1t permitte
change Of school-books, and was very liable to pr
their sale into new hands, By the law towns. supe
intendents and local dealers could purchase books
lowest rates. and deposors could get per cent
their SALE Hence the why Mr.. Camp hi
uttered so many doleful walls about the law. abo,
agents, and about the expense of changing books. II
course has been natural and often he has referrt
to his philanthropc efforts in behalf of schools and
unselfish position nobody has seen in his work an
thing but the old, selfish. David-M.- Camp motive.
During the school-book campaign, the Express h
published articles almost every week ON the subje'
and it has constantly ascrbed sinister motives to tho
who have had anything to do with book business.
first there a scathng potato bug editorial
| agents. and when the committees met in conventio
by direct iusnuation in the ESprcss several Of the
were accused Of acting dishonesty in the matter
O readers. The same convention was also stigmatiz
as a farce" It has also been limited in that par
that committee men here and elsewhere, were acti
i dishonorably.
In his last issue, he takes pains to reflect on I
ability and the honesty of the textbook committee
Blake Or i ssfp Town. PRue9d hs makes thrust n
u gentlemen will not be injured by the unnecessary
ne contemplate insnuations. As might naturally
n lexpected whatever the MONITOR has said, or
e,,tor has done the schoolbook campaign, has be
ny wrosg. We only stop TO reply to silly accusati
on Mr.. Camp In his says: ut appears to be
substaniated tht Blake endeavored to plough W
3 some conmitteesby the grand offer of the MONITOR
n year. free, gratisJor nothing" This is purely an
l., venton of Mr. camps and is false in every particu
But that he ms have some good cause for showing
ne to be true we er to subscribe at for twepty
copies of the tzpress he will trot out the indvid
committee nan with whom Blake ever "plough,
IN | by oferin, linn the MONITOR or anything else
his influeuceor his vote school books. Mr.. Ca
On have brtnight to do the job ill., and IL he ia
LA will he phsse make decent retracton in his pap
We win seid the papers, if we compelled to t
on them te box agents and the enemies we have m
lsh while ngaged in that business ourselves.
=. 1t pstrange that such pule and unselhsh man
~ Mr.. amp represents himself to be. should be
~, trerey suspicious Of everybody else. 1t has been
al tbs mans heart is the mirror into which
loks TO read other mems character; if this is IL
OH pvid's moral gizzard must be little dsordered
lev We are inclined to think his nursing and train
- ais bad stomach and bad liver have had something
oi' do With his intellectual and moral bousness and
ore do lot propose to harbor any Ill feelings against
IA wAaever he may say do. Once in a while, W
he GETS too ugly we must waste little paper space
ne him. but enough for this time