The Arizona sentinel., 1881-12-24
An Editor Reflected by His Own
Mirror.

and the areader charitably passes
such by. But when journal,
to reflect the moral
and educational status of COM
egotistically assuming to
be it's educator and the guardian
of its interests, shall present to
the readers as a part of their ed
ucational and mental pabnlum,
studied falsificatiOns, palpable
and objectionable Inconsistencies,
absolute contradictions and call
umniating reflections, and some
of these written in spirit of di-
aboiical malignity, these thus in
suited readers will quite natural
ly conclude that the paper is a
curse rather than a blessing, and
might exclaim:
Hold on, MacDough;
And cuss'd be he who gives such st ugh
Now for the Yuma Free Press
mirror. in its issue of June 18Th,
in the local columns, we find this
language: "The Gulf route sur
veyors have cut loose from Yuma
and are now blowing through the
arid sands of a damned lot Of
waste land" This is encourag-
ing to newcomers. In its alaSt
weeks issue, speaking of the
contemplated road from Yuma to
the gulf, under the heading Of
"Yuma and Port Ysabel," APP
appears the following : q" This
road will be of immense import
auce to Yuma in many respects.
Lying between this village and
the Mexican boundary line is a
vast tract of land containing the
finest soil in the world" We re-
fer to this discrepancy, not that
there is anything essentially
wrong in it, but simply to indi-
cate how rapidly the locality
changed from "Waste land" to
the "tiaest soil in the world"
What kind of fertilizers were
used that in six months time
this change should take place?
In its issue of July 80, under the
h eading How to Kill Your
Town." is the following: "Belit-
tie and insult every new conner;
give the cold shoulder and un-
derrate every mechanic and pro-
fessional man who desires TO
come among you" The issue of
Nov. 26th says: "Echo is UNI
doubtedly an echo, and his agri-
cultural production must have
emanated from a brain shaped
like hollow canyon" This be-
littling refers to new comer-a
man that the genius Of the Free
Press knew to be not only new
conner, but also a professional
man, and, more than that, an
aged invalid. Respectful, court
eous treatment of old age:-and
this slur was for no better reason
than that the person aimed at
had written and published d let
ter in the SENTINEL, rather than
In the Free Press. In reference
to this matter Echo says that
while the Press intimates that
this belittling of strangers tends
to kill a town, so far as he knows,
the editor of that paper is the
only one in the town who prac-
tees it; and he thinks, further
more, that the town of Yuma is
fortunate in having so few of this
class of persons. The little slur
upon him places him in the posi-
tion eff the lion when the jackass
kicked him-he considered the
source. -
In the issue of Nov, 10Th, UNI
der the heading of Press indie
pendence," we read: "Where
lies the utility of newspaper
except in the advocacy of right
the condemnation of wrong.
y Of what value is a newspa-
per if it lies?" Falsely quoting
an extract is virtually lying, and
in the following language, taken
from this ssame belittling squib
ocal, on "EchO," the Free Press
asserts an absolute and unquali-
fed falsehood. Referring 10 the
letter in the SENTINEL, or to
what "EchO" should have there