The Wilmingtonian., 1886-03-13

the lCdnt Of IL.
met Il man the other day who two years
ago, was running small paper at LARA
bie's Slough He was then in his meridian
as u journalist. He boldly assailed the
silver dollar, and with his trenchant pen he
wrote such burning words of denunciation
that the printer had to set them ON ice be-
fore he could use the copy. Last week |
met him on train. He was very thin in
flesh, and the fire of defiance was no longer
in his eye | asked him how he came on
with the paper at Lorrabie's Slough He
said it was no more.
at started OUT said he ''in fearless
way, but it was not sustained"
He tn paused in low tone Of voice,
gulped and proceeded:
Folks told me when l began that ought
TO attack almost everything. Make the
paper non-par san but aggressive; that was
their idea Sail into everything, and the
paper would soon be power in the land
So l aggreSsed Friends came in very
kindly and told me what to attack They
would neglect their own business in order
to tell me of corruption in sombody else.
went on that way for some time in a defiant
mood, attacking anything that happened to
suggest itself.
"Finally thought | would attack the sill
yer dollar didso. l thought that friends
would come TO me and praise me for my
manly words. and that | could afford TO
lose the friendship of the dollar provided
could win friends.
"ln six months | took an uneypirel an
nual pass over our Larrabie Slough Narrow
Gauge or Orphan road, and with nothing
else but the clothes wore, | told the plain
tiff how to jerk the old Washington press
i 1 i
press that had more than once squatted my
burning words into the pure white page,
The denr old towel on which | had wiped
my soiled hands for years till it had almost
become part of myself; the dark blue Cor
don press with its large fly wheel and inter
mittent chattel mortgage, press to which
had contributed the first joint of my front
finger; the EDITORS chair; the samples of
large business cards printed in green with an
infamed red border, which showed that we
could do coored work at Larrabie's Slough
just as well as they could in the large cities;
the files of our paper; the large wilted po-
/ tato that Mr. Alonzo G. Pinkham, Of Erin
+ Corners, kindly laid on the table--all, all
had to 60.
~ fled out into tine great, hollow, moclling
world of people who had requisite me to
! aggress They were people who had called
my attention to various things which
ought to attack. l had attacked those
/ things | had also attacked the Larrabie
1 Slough Narrow Gauge railroad but the
manager did not see the attack, AID so my
! pass was goo
"What could ! dol had attacked every
thing. and more especially the silver dollar,
and now | was homeless. For fourteen
weeks | rode up the narrow gauge road one
day and back the next, sub,isting solely on
the sumple nice pecan meat that the news
boy pus in each passengers lap. You hook
increduuus see, but it is true ! feel diff
ferently toward tue currency now, and
wish could undo what ! have lone Were
| called upon again to jerk the Archimedean
lever would not he so aggressive especi-
ally Hs regards the currency Whether it
is inflated or not, silver dollars, paper GER
tifcates of deposit or silver hullion il does
not matter to me.
II vearn for two or three adult dough.
nuts ami one OF those thick, dappled slabs
of cingrrhrcal or n Stat Of pie with goose
herre, in it. presume that | could write
a scathing editorial on the abuses Of our
currency vet. hut ! am not 81 much in the
seattle business a, used to be
Al wish yuu will state. il yuu will
through some great metropolitan journal,
that my Nle"a III FelalIph I" lue aliNeT COLL
age and the currency question have under.
gone radical change, and that any plan
whatever, by which to make the American
dollar les, skitti,h, will meet with my
hearty approval. II have done any thing
at all through my paper to injure or repres,
the flow OF our currency, and fear l have
now take this occasion to cheerfully re
gret it, He then wrunE my hand anC
passed from my sight Bill Nyr III nostuI
Globe