The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1886-05-12
THE MAN ABOUT TOWN.

storekeepers, 1t IS the price OF butter.
No one objects paying a fair price for
fair article, but when one has to pay as
much for an inferior article as he would
in other places for good one, it is time.
to kick. There is no incentive for farm
er to make first-class butter, other than
pride, because his neighbor who can
throw little or good deal of salt and
some grease together, aud call It butter,
will set just as much for it There is no
distinction in price--it is all butter no
matter how poor or good it may be. In
almost every other city they have price
for different grades of butter; if you want
good, the best, you pay the price; if you
are satisfied with an inferior grade, you
do not pay so much. Learn the farmers
OF makers of butter that they can get
from ten to fifteen cents a pound more
for good than they can for bad butter,
and there will be change for the benefit
Of merchant and consumer. We do not
wish by this article to convey the impress
sion that no good butter comes to our
market. We know that there is and we
know also that you have got to get up
early in the morning aud stay all day if
you get any of it, for there are customers
for all of that kind. We have had some
experience in purchasing butter in trade
and cash, and there Is where almost all
the trouble arises; for the sake of the
trade, stoiekeepers are forced generally
10 accept all the produce or none, and
while everything else may be good, the
butter is of the very poorest, ard the
regular customer is expected to take his
share of the bad bargain. Let there he
q reform.
The circulating of petitions Tor the pur-
pose of signatures for or against any par
ticular object is resorted to very frequent
ly and often results in much good, with
an Questionable harm. No man or wo-
man, however, should ever sign his or her
namo 10 petition until thoroughly I'M
derstood, either by reading or explana.
tion. We have heard it said openly and
above board that on the petitions lately
circulated against the granting of license
were persons names who never signed
them nor who ever authorized any one
else to do soft SO, there was forgery Just
as much as II on the back of note
others signed because they bad spite
against the person who owned one of the
hotels; others signed to ''get rid of the
person asking for their name !" others
said they ''ncver read 1t and did not
know what was on It - some signed for
"all in the room, or anyone you could
think Of" The true use of petitions Is
thus injured and the object also, because
we honestly believe that those who circu-
lated these petitions were honest In their
convictions, that the sale of liquor was
injurious and not for the best interest of
society. and thoy would not sanction any
unfair means to accomplish their ends.
While every person has the right to re-
monstrate against any wrong or in favor
of any right, no one has any excuse for
doing the same for fun or any other ex-
cuse they might give save that of honesty
of intention. Two wrongs does not make
one right.
The third annual parade of the Bethle-
hem Fire Department will take place on
Saturday, May 2e. Chief Van Solver has
received and accepted an invitation to be
present as the guest of Chief Gross and
the Board of Engineers. Chief Stockton,
of New Hope; Chief Stockton, of Elem.
ington; Captain Slack and several others,
have also receive invitations. The hos
pitalIty extended to our firemon who Wis
tied Bethlehem two years ago will no
doubt be repeated at the coming parade.
There are some people In this world
who want some other people cut to pieces
for real or imaginary wrongs, and they
generally expect an editor TO do 1t for
them through the columns of his paper.
"Why don't you go for SO and SO ?" Is a
question often asked of the man who is
fortunate or unfortunate enough 10 edit
newspaper. Tho editor is supposed to
fight all the bad things, praise all the
good, and do . hundred other things that
belong to individuals themselves. He is
not bound to shoulder any more respon-
sibility than any other citizen, except as
no may think at SO to do. Ill-will to his
business is just as strong as to any other
merchant, for condemning In strong terms
some wrong. Why. they come In and
say, IL would make complaint but It
would injure my business" ut ought to
be stopped, but II l say anything 1t will
make III friends" "He is q next door
neighbor. and l do not want any fuss,
but It's a nuisance" Spite, or the feel
ing to injure fellows man, should not,
and does not, enter the mind Of an honest
editor. He speaks bis sentiments for the
good of the community. Sometimes his
opinions may be wrong, but as general
thing be strikes the right side. The COL
umns are always open for communications
to all persons who will be responsible for
the article inserted. We have known ed.
itors who have lost hundreds Of dollars
by fighting certain cause for the benefit
Of host Of others who were just as much
interested, and then have this same party
10 get their work done 1t some other
place. II there is wrong to right, or a
nuisance to abate, 10 any neighborhood,
here is the way It ought to be done: 1--WE
are authorized By Mr.. Jones, Smith, Will
son. O'Brien and dozen others (giving
names), to state that the place kept by
Mr.. Bamboo lie disreputable one and a
nuisance and ought to be broken up. We
are ready to give evidence, provided the
authorities will take the matter In hand. !"
The editor can comment on the above,
because from the character of the gentle
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