The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1886-12-23
Goes Further Into the Open Letter
Business, Addressing Epistle No. 2
10 the World In General, and
10 Yen and Some Other
Hillsboro Folks in
Particular.

10 zen ana Some Other
Hillsboro Folks in
Particular.
GENTLE READER ALLOW me to make
a few more incidental remarks. Allow
me to say that next to shining in society
and giving good, free-gratis advice, my
strongest point is making incidental re.
marks.
Five minutes pause for charges o.
egotism.
The only preface to this epistle is the
gentle remark that the journal tha,
doesn't occasionally get somebody lit
tie warm under the collar and make
some sucker kick once in while dom,
amount to u continental doggone-it eth
er as a newspaper or as molder of pub
lie opinion, and even isn't the best o.
material from which to manufacture bus
ties.
The press, more or less all over the
country, used, in my younger days, te
cringe to a self-important few, and in
some places, even in this day, the editor
80 far lose sight Of the true, high aims
OF journalism as to toady to the patron
izing glaces Of that same presumptuoul
few. Hillsboro, lying Off of mainline
railroad and thus being some years be
hind the times, has consequently beer
slow to catch on to the procession o.
progress and cast off some old, foolish
obsolete ideas that the busy, enterpris
ing world elsewhere threw into the swil
ever so long time ago. The day when
social prestige depended upon a geneal.
ogy traced back to major in the melisll
OF '12 has forever gone, and the fact that
ones great.granddaddy was a candidate
for Congress or road supervisor in 40
or by speculation amassed paltry few
"base coin," is no longer passport to
the so.called "best Observation-Disclosures.
Yet, we see an occasional relic of the
"good old days" in the shape of news.
paper editors and reporters who are mere
puppets in the fingers of self.denomi.
mated "best society,""
Your humble servant desires to not
be mistaken for one of such. He would
not part with his personal independence
and fawn and beg favors from an imag.
mary aristocracy for million more than
all the iavors that an imaginary aristoc.
racy imagine in their power to bestow.
He is proud to make and sign and seal q
declaration of independence as a jour.
nalist, and to assert that no man, set of
men, clique, or anything else, with all his
or their self.importance. can cajole or fiat.
ter him into fawning what-might-you.
not-call-it, ready at all times to dispense
taffy in return for supposed "social rec.
ignition" No ones company "for the
next lancers" is good enough to buy the
influence of any journal I may ever
have the honor to edit, and no one in all
this neck Of woods, though his or her
ancestors may have ridden with the Cru.
saders to Jerusalem or crossed the wide
Atlantic with the first American John
Smith, can by patting me upon the back
or tickling me under the chin influence
me to bow to their feeble mandates or
cringe before the greatness that lives
only in their brilliant imaginations.
The public-the real live, American
public in whose social circles brains and
intellect with respectability, take prece.
dence over riches and May Flower
stock without it-are ripe for such asser.
tions as these. They have wondered
long years how the "best society" could
exist upon such shallow pretensions as
its foundation has long been observed to
stand. The mass Of highly respectable
people to be sure, have not allowed the
matter to trouble them or lost sleep in
worrying about it, but have simply OBJ
served it when arrogance became too
noticeable to 60 by unobserved.
This is free country-Providence be
thanked! We can all do pretty much as
We please. Such being the case no one
denies any circle of friends the right TO
mosey of to themselves and style them.
selves "the best society" The laws OF the
greatest nation Of the world-long live
the Republic !-does not forbid them
meeting with each other at their homes,
where they may enjoy each others
brilliant bon n,ots and graceful gymnastic
waltzing without swsking one iota Of
envy in the hearts Of those who are 70
unfortunate - not TO basque in their
smiles. But whom they pretend to dss.
ignate the social stations Of those who
are not in their particular cot, they OK.
pose presumption that does not simply
display their ignorance of the etiqustte
sf really polite society, but downright
ill.manners beside.
There 10 . Newspaper Published not
more than . thousand miles from the
palatial boudoir in which ! write, which
txies to give the imprsssion that the
Nsws-HEsALD expressed disntisfaclion
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