Lewiston teller. [volume] (Lewiston, North Idaho) 1878-1900, 1884-02-14

FREEZING OUT.

hat a clique in that section, who are
iun1ry for Office, have sent party to
i'm of rinE to buy him out for 81 zoo
! property worth $3.50 AMI give bin
h alt rnative to seli at that price CT be
70, cut. Ih. editor says: "And now
his little clique propose to freeze out tn
Gazette md bust its publisher VIII
to bust is he'll. 10 wear cliqu3's collar
5 h l.r. The Gd-ctte Iubi-hyr can
-tind it for a while lie has step.moth-
err in Texas who has kindly cons 1T to
,ell off two year : increase OF her band f
mules and sc him through, and he ais
has his milestone left to resume his old
.ra,lc Of shearing sheep. Ring,ters, bring
n your re!rigcrators. You are going out
o. your way to interfere with mans
legitimate business, and he is made f
queer mud if he don't try to roll some
rocks into your strawberry patch that
will strain your backs to roll out. If the
gang don't feel tired before the Ga-ette
is lroze out we will miss our guess
We have seen many similar cases and
have expert need some, whore not only a
small clique with money have attempted
to silence press that would not pander
to their political or business interests to
The neglect of the rights and interests
Of the public at large. When such as
sumo that attitude, then we only laugh at
ihcir weakness and we never yet knew an
editor with grit and nerve, and skill
,nough to take advantage Of the weak ness
Of his assailants that could not disrupt
hem, discomfit them aud send them to
the wall, bleeding at every pore, and yet
not be openly hostile to them We co
not say you can put them to shame in all
| cases, for some Of them, it matters not
how unjust and mean and tyranical they
become, they are Of such material that
shame never punctures their conscience
The surest way to get along with that
class is to never give to them an advan-
tage ground, but always have them at
your mercy and deal out that mercy in
small doses to them, and watch their
secret writings and smothcred contortions
under your placid applications We have
seen many contemporary newspapers in
this upper country which will too readily
allow themselves to be drawn into local
! controversies of other localities than their
own, merely upon the report Of some of a
clique of a neighboring berg, who, under
pretense of giving news, distil their poison
to suit the degree of their personal spite
or spleen. The air is too often filled with
lies and missils Of malice and spleen ut
tered and sent abroad for no other pur-
pose than to injure person CT newspaper,
while the calumnators are safely secured
in the tortoise shell of an anonymous sig
nature. If editors would in all cases
expose those who assail character clandes-
timely, by occasionally applying live Goals
upon these, as you would turtle that has
drawn his feet aud head into his shell. they
would be very chary of repeating the
same or similar lies in that direction. The
above is in part a DEPRESSION from the pc.
culiar troubles of the Gazette, but they
are so interviewer with the practice of all
these cliques and cotcrics of persons who
want to make newspaper the mouth
piece Of their personal schemes, and their
personal spleen and spite, which, when
they do succeed, never fail to degrade the
character Of the paper or the persons who
conduct it. The Gazette man in his
case was right in exposing the parties
who wished to use him or bust him out.
Let the press be Independent, modest,
lirm and truthful and as far as possible
keep it cut Of the control Of political hacks
Or business schemers who are ever reach
ing to grasp ivr themselves what belongs
10 the general public