Herald and tribune. [volume] (Jonesborough, Tenn.) 1869-current, 1886-11-18
BILL NYE'S VERDICT.
ON THE STYLE OF JOURNALISTIC
vAtEolcroRlES.
The Anguished v'aii of the walIow
world"

t Az ehoso ooluulus, Sdlu dugnt
against Mr.. Adams or his Justly cele-
brated express. We have paid many a
Collar into the c. o. d. department of
this mans express company. Before
we came west, our physician told us
we could not live without cod liver oil,
and, indeed, he was right, for have we
not been c. 0. d. liver oil the time
since we started this paper?
"This last remark is offered as a
gratuitous insu!t 10 every unpaid sub
scriber. Paid up subscribers may omit
it. Or we will go to them personally
and apologize.
"But let us seriously review the past
two years history of the World, What
have we not done to aid and encourage
our infant industries and advance the
tagging commerce Of Buffalo Wallow?
LET our files show whether we have
done what We say or not. Let reluct-
ant capital read over our pages, cover
ing the past, and answer if what we
row state be not accurate.
"Have we not, at the i~nstigation of
leading citizens here doomed the con-
dition of trade, when traffic was dead,
and currency nothing but o hollow
memoryP
Have we not through the columns
of the World asked that q bank be at
once established here, when, as a mat
ter of fact, fot II year the post Office
here has had TO sell stamps and take
the pay out Of the store?
"Haye we not been gay and frolic-
some in these co.Ginns that the world
at large, might not tumble to the woe
within us? Have we not joked and
punned and fro.icked in print, when
the shrill north wind was whispering
abroad with l4s icy byath, 'he hath
ITO underclothiAg %whAteverg'
ave had ever 02cn loyal to the town
in which we lived and this last act in
our career shows how loyal the town
has been to us. Other newspaper men
with fewer brains and in better towns,
have grown aiiiuent. Low-browed
journalists elsewhere, in towns that are
populated by human beings, have done
well, while we, with Il fatigued and
vapid constituency, have thrown away
our two best years and now 90 forth
only with what is exennt from seizure
and sale.
ave kept quiet when the conyen-
ton made its nomination for member of
Assembly last year and assisted in his
election becausr he was q Buffalo Wal.
low citizen, well knowing even then that
he would be the first man to put him.
self on the five cent counter. We knew
then that he would take anything from
a pass to an III tilrled watermelon
But everybody said we should stand by
the nomination, especially so long US
the nominee wrSa nlh who lived here.
So he went to the legislature, worked
for the better protection to muskrat
and downed this ncighbors on every
corner. His pay was $3.50 for the SEES.
sion, out of which he succeeded in
paying $500 board and $500 whiskey
bills, after which he found by a system
Of rigid economy, he had still enough
left to purchase two-moment horse
and evade the grand jury.
"More than all that we have set up
nights to edit and correct and revise
and p%unctuate the alleged speeches of
this man, so that his fellow-men would
not think him the intellectual blight
that he is. All through the campaign
his imitation brains noated about in a
pool Of red-eyed rum, like the speci-
mems in a doctors office dancing OF
the bosom of a jar Of alcohol. Then In
would emit q speech! To-day; as the
result Of u toll, he is gay and free In
Canada, while we so forth to begin
life's battle once more, with the bitter
memory Of having assisted an intel
lectual angle-worm into a place where
he could market his moth-eaten soul.
"We have stood by the people of
Buffalo Wallow in every way while we
have been running this paper. We
have maintained that good order pre-
vailed here night and day, when the
facts would hardly warrant this state
ment. We have pointed with pride to
u peaceful record IS a town when
the low refrain Of the six-shooter, COO
ing to its mate, came stealing through
the quiet night. We have asked the
pious and prudish east to come and
dwell with us, when we well knew tina
no stranger ever walked the length OF
street in q plug hat and lived Ia
to tell his friends about 1t, unless the
hat was made Of boiler iron.
Subscribers who do not get their
papers hereafter will know why IL is
that way. They will understand that
their subscriptions and the paper, also,
have expired. Those who think that
a publication Is a public trust will do
well to apply elsewhere.
READERS Of the World who find a
! large red cross and n notice OF sale on