The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1885-01-15
RANDOM RACKET.
Amor Populi Lambasts the People
he Loves.
To the CIrIzES.

he Loves.
To the CITIzEE.
Providence was in a liberal MOOD
when she finished up Giles county
She gave her the richest hills and
most ailuvial bout ms, watered
grandly, and clothed her hills and
dells with most magnificent forests
Since man fell heir To this Eldora
do she has lavished wealth upon
him, responding generously to ey-
cry touch and effort. Such sur
roundings would naturally beget
men of large and generous souls,
liberal, refined, learned in and pa
irons of the arts-a seat of civiliza-
tion, learning and opulenee not sec
ond to Greece in her palmiest days.
The first thing l should expect to
find in the families of this lovely
land would be the County Paper.
Why? That is the source of their
news and gossip, the crib for all the
county happenings, the champion
of ALI its coDnty's interests, the
light of the people. l am surprised
beyond expression to find that the
people are not in keeping with
their surroundings and privileges
mot one family in ten in Giles
read the CITIZEN, although / am in
formed that its people support it
more numerously than perhaps any
other county in the s. ate. recent
ly made inquiry and by much
trouble instituted comparison be-
tween the CITIZEN and more than a
score OF other county ptpers, and
intelligent men avoWed that it sur
passed them all. Our favored coun-
ty can never be what Providence
will permit it to be until each maH
learns that the county paper in his
family gives his children more learn
ing than schooling. The little
county news items, etc, whets up
the child's minds, puts its curiosity
on edge, it sees aud knows of the
things it reads about, and thus it
is forced to see that learning is a
real, every day matter-4nd 10, the
little mind is moulded to receive
knowledge. Give the little folks a
chance, o ye stingy sons of toll
And take a chance yourselves, o ye
whose fathers treated you as
shamefully as you now treat your
children.
I am informed on credible au-
thority that Giles county has a
thousand men who are brothers to |
the man who rode ten miles to the
next. post office to see if he couldn't
get a postal card for less than a
cent. 1 recently attended the sale
of a scholar who had spared no
cost on his extensive library. l was
struck with the fact that magnifi-
cent volumes, bursting with rich
lore, started at nickel, while his
shot gun started at its value. Here
in lies the reason why many men
will not take the paper. Tney bring
into comparison such papers a. Av-
ing sheet that is glad to get you
to read it free, and other papers half
printed in Cincinnati. They com
pare the weekly American-which
is a mere reprint of the matter set
up for the daily. A dollar seems
to be the price some men set on the
the minds of their children. A
dollar is the value of a whole year 8
to their wives and a
whole years information for
Why bless your souls,
men, the CITIZEN could be published
for dollar, but the reduction in
price would have 10 come off its face
and it would be that much poorer
paper 1t is worth 81 so and 50 be
cause more work is put on it, more
money spent to make it worth 1T.
Those of us who love the CITIZEN
demand that it be kept up to the
high standard it has reached. Don't /
force the editor to turn off some of
his men and reduce the value of the
paper. suggest, however. that
the CITIZEN issue monthly .rehash
of its stale items and let it to these
dollar men. They won't know the
difference. They are so intent on
getting a postal card for less than
a cent that they won't notice that
it has been used once.
l am also informed that in hun
dreds of families the only new pub
LEGATION they get in their houses
from year to year is a new almanac,
which is worn to shreds by the chill
dren in vain endeavLr to learn
from it and satisfy the
cravings of their little souls for in
formation. God gave them these
cravings and their fathers cheat and
swindle them by not satisfying
them. Shame upen such conduct.
How we clamor for free schools.
And the legislature piddles. and pid
dies, and the more they piddle the
less good it does. We ought to have
full terms, fully taught, year in and
year out, good houses and good
teachers, and thorough course.
The CITIZEN has been one of the
first, foremost and fiercest advocates
of this. How we grumbled and
growled over roads. The CITIZEN
fought the good fight until our road
system is wonderfully improved.
What built the Brick Church pike?
The editor of the CITIZEN pushed
the thing and ding-donged and quar-
relied and stirred people, until a
meeting was called at SamuePs
Mill. Few attended and those there
were Respondent and the leading
citizen of that community asked
the editor to get up and announce
that the thing was failure. He
wouldn't do it, but got up and call
ed the meeting to order, and from |
that small beginning came that pike
and then the Bradshaw pike follow
ed and then the Vale Mills pike