Press and daily Dakotaian. (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1880-1889, 1884-08-08
The Long Felt Want.

meet the democrats if southern tactics
are to be resorted to in northern state.
The Long Felt Want.
By Bill Nye: Robert j. Burdette, hav.
ing related his experience with young
and struggling daily, I move that other
brethren present relate their own little
history. 1 think it is sometimes relief
to unburden the soul by confession.
l toyed with daily once which was
incorporated to fill long felt want. I
did not know it was loaded. There was
rival daily that had been running two
years and we entered the arena, hoping
to win an easy victory over this paper
and become great power in the west
We made it our business to boom every.
thing that was boomable and to sneer at
the lack of enterprise of our adversary.
We got specials BY mail, press report by
slow freight and showed style of fear.
less enterprise that was the envy and the
admiration OF maIy large metropolitan
journals. We thought that our adver.
sary wouldn't last more than month
after election, but Thanksgiving came
still on deck. The editor would
come and borrow print paper of us
and then use it to call US the slime
bedecked and putrid exponent of
still more baneful political faction.
We would borrow font of BREWER of
him and characterize his paper as the
waillng fondling, dying in the poison
GUS vapors of the deadly swamp of pol
itical faith, wherein it had chosen its
bed, edited by the bitter toe Of the laun.
dress and Lindley Murray, man who
had avoided justice for forty years. and,
not content with the outrage of all NOR
al sense, had declared war on the spelling
book.
Thus we kept up spiritual contest
for long time. Sometimes we couldn't
get our paper out of the freight Office
and sometimes he couldn't, but we would
loan each other the last qulre we had
and keep friendly, while through the
columns of our respective papers We
spoke of each other in language which
might have been construed as reproach-
full to some people. 1t was an exciting
time. One day the Squaker would Of
fend subscriber, and be would come
over to us, and the next day We would
) unwittingly tread on the toes of one Of
our great army of subscribers, and b.
would go over to the enemy.
The editor of the other paper and my
self saw that it was gong to be war O
determination. We ground our teetl
!, and shears and sailed in. At the end o
. the first year he had discharged his ser
? want and my paper owed me $500 sal
3 ary. At the end of the second year b.
, had blown in his fine brick residence ant
t had taken my salary as police Justice ant
thrown it into the rapacious NAV of nj,
] little hungry long felt want.
e One day the little, muddy, measly
Hong suffering features of the Evening
D Squaker failed to appear. We kept ask
:, ing the office boy why the Squawke
: didn't come. He didn't know. The doc
= was locked. A map of Dakota was hum
e over one window and printers towe
r over the other. The office boy raise
e the map and stole in. The uncertain
t light here and there broke in stragglinI
9 rays through the threadbare places ii
e the towel. On the desk lay letter from
: the advertiser of collie eraser, il
8 which he offered to take column in th
r Squawker year. following pure readin
). matter aud with 1000 lines of readinl
e notices to be strung along through ed
q torials from day to day, IN bold face
9 type, and in consideration therefor t
d furnish for two years to the editor or hi
l. order fifty bottles of the collie eraser Q
e publishers price, delivered on board tn
q cars.
Everything about the Office shove
that the work had been going bravely o
!. summons lay there on the desk anon
!. ment for S253.s5. This shows what
g hold . paper gets on ito subscribers an,
t also what hold the subscriber gets O
n the paper. The sheriff had been a sui
J. scriber to the Squawker ever since
d started, but We didn't know his attact
ment for the paper was so great.
n We won the day, but at what q sacr
/. fee. The smoke OF conflict cleared awa
|. and showed that the victory was nc
Is worthy Of the carnage. We had survive
but We were not proud. The Squawke
e had fought US bravely, and now its still
l. cold form lay in state in the basement
J. the chief creditor, and the usual motto
"a OF attachment was tackled on the door.
The editor and myself met on the TO
q owing day, and he was the more chez
ful Of the two. Hesaid he felt sorry fl
It me. II can use what I get hereafter Q
], my family" said he; "but you cam
a You will feel guilty if You buy barrels
-four for your own use, knowing that
b may imperil the next issue of The pape
+. have passed all that" And he ws
It right. Tho quicker . man decides
cease publishing daily where it is nj
u needed. just SIMPLY through Q hig
,r moral sense Of duty. the sooner he vi
q become light hearted and joyous. I pal
y 5000 for the privilege OF knowing thi
.. and present it to every paid up sul
j, scriber of the Free Press without mone
1t and without price. don't know vel
l. much. but if there's anything I do kno,
and know it hard aud know it With OF
hand tied behind me. il y that.
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