The semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1882-1886, 1883-08-29
A SILLY

The MINER feels constrained It
apologize to its readers for dsvotjn'
valuable space to a review of the sill,
twaddle which appeared in the Int
Mountain last evening under the CAP
ton, "Angry Assailant." Under OF
binary circumstances we should tax
the extended notice which is givel
to the MINER and it's editor as a com
pliment, being assured that shee
would not devote nearly its entire ed
itorial space to one object unless tina
object hurt it. ut is the wounded
bird that futters," is an adage which
aptly applies to Jul neighbor. 1t
very, very silly screed shows jus
how and where it is hurt. Th,
MINER is thorn in it's side. It over
shadows its neighbor in everything
pertaining to a live newspaper
and leads it largely in circulation
and influence. In the knowledge O
this fact it is hurt. The Inter Noun
tain is but an ephemeral affair with
a limited circle of readers struggling
for an existence, and without Federal
patronage would long since have
yielded up the ghost. The MINER is
an old, well-estab]ished, reliable
journal, read in every English speak.
ing country in the world, owning its
own building and owing no one. 1t
has attained this enviable position by
an earnest and intelligent advocacy
of the rights and interests of the peo-
pie of Montana in general, and of the
people OF Silver Bow county in par.
ticular. This again hurts the selfish
"Cheap John" Inter Mountain.
Hence as it cannot raise itself to the
level of the MINER it attempts to
drag the MINER down to its own low
plane.
Tie MINER might retort to the
charges, assertions and innuendoes Of
the Inter Mountain by saying that
about the first thing that then f1edg-
ling did was to oppose with all its
limited power the building of the
Utah and Northern Railway from
Silver Bow Junction to Butte, and
that so pronounced vas its hostility
to the read and SO patent were its rea-
sons therefor that it was then termed
the livery sta BILE or horse collar Or
gan; and that it has since then at
tempted to worm itself into the good
graces Of the railway company by do
ing printing and advertising for it
without charge; that in its intense
hatred of silver, born of English
prejudice, it has persistently favored
the repeal of the Bland sill
Yer coinage law and would
sacrifice the interests of this great
mining section upon the altar of its
hate for the white metal; that it first
br0ached the Smokehouse claim mat
ter and was promptly shut up by the
business men of this city; that it put
hshes its few numbers in a rented
bu%ilding-not having one of its own
and had 40 use for a lot, and if it
had would probably have sold itself
to obtain it; that it has constantly
and consistently taken sides against
the interests of the laboring poor and
in favor of monopolies and corpora
tons and that it is not regarded as
trustworthy in its judgment nor re-
in its news. We say the
MINER might say all these things
and then be much nearer the truth
than were the criticisms bestowed
upon this journal by the Inter Noun.
tain.
As to the editor of the Inter Noun
tain we might say he has the reputa-
ton in this citv Of being an old-wom-
anish, cranky, English fossil, much
better fitted by nature and education
accoucher of a herd of sheep, or
. h~en-granny, or a weeder of onion
oeds, than he is to edit a newspaper
n a live Western mining region.
That he has frequently permitted the
~1irtiest of dirty rot to appear upon
local side of his paper aimed at
editor, business manager and
connected with the MINER:
hat he has permitted most scurrilous
comments upon MINER editorials to
ind a place in his local columns, a
hing which NO respectable journal
n one having a due regard for jour-
courtesies would permit;
hat in his own columns
le is ever ready to make unwarrant-
d charges against the editor of this
'aper; that he measures the motives
# others by his own base, groveling
and that he is toe pusillani-
aous to resent an emphatic denial OF
lis lying assertions by anything
more cutting or pointed than his
pencil. W. say we might
ay all these things concerning the
ditor Of the Inter Mountain and be
auch nearer the truth than any
hing he has written concerning the
diter of the MINER. But it would
e unprofessional, too Inter Noun
for us to indulge in such lam
uage. W. leave its employment to
ne blessed trinity that presides over
he destinies of the "Cheap John"
fair in the adjoining building.
New York World: Uncle Rufus
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