The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1888-10-04
Answer to the Ford Decalocue.

Answer to the Ford Deoalogue.
EDITOR CITIZEN: Will you be so
Kind as to publish our defense Gas
he CITY fathers of Pulaski" have
oeea so often arraigned before the
readers of the Giles County Demo
,rat as set of suicides to the good
If the private as well as public in
crest of Pulaski.
It b as been said that the editor
IF said paper was crank; be it so,
but we as the municipal authority
Of Pulaski, feel that in defense Of
our citizens and the good reputa-
ton of our town that we should
make reply to Col. Ford, for in
nearly or quite every issue Of his
paper We are censured in scathing
rhetoric. I will quote him in the
last issue. "No pains are taken by
our city authorities to order drain
age, sewerage or even decent side
walks. They are dead to every
thing having a tendency to improve
TIE city in any respect; nothing OF
any Importance to the city is sug-
gested by any member Of the
board. They meet and acjonrn,
make a few appropriations for
wooden bridges, talk . little about
purchasing . squirt gun to put out
fire, and mule and wagon to haul
dirt and rubbish for the city. There
is not a live man on the board. (And
further on he concludes the best
thing for Pulaski just at this time
would be some first class funerals
and the places of the deceased filled
by live men. A scarrilous criticism
on our noble founders, progenltora
and their descendants, who have
planned, laid off and perpetuated
one of the most beautiful and taste.
full towns in the United States and
one SO elegantly kept that it il
proverbial for it's health and beauty
and with vigilance we have by day
and night guarded the Highways
against the dread scourge yellow
fever. After and through the ad-
vice and direction of our physicianl
we put our city in the best by
genie state and thus while the ole
coon was slumbering and dead te
all sense of fear because he knew
that our city was clean and trusted
sentinels were on the outposts
Now the gratitude. And abou
all the tax on the property of thu
founders and the very men that b.
invokcs the death OF 60 to pay tn
expenses of all this. Oh, pity! Oh
shame! Intollerant, brutal!
Who, might l ask, is this man
Col. Ford, that takes the immorta
and glorious privilege of fastening
his venemous fangs and pourinI
out his scornful wrath upon tn
city fathers as he terms them.
vampire, an adventurer in on
midst, genus homo, species SD
tgeneris, a monster monstrt city
the author of a modern decalogut
The. old gentleman has recent
been toasted and gathered into tn
fawnlng embraces of a splendid an
chivalric oligarchy, the substanc
and smiles Of which should hav
been diffused among the many, bu
neverthertheless, examples have fur
nished results as the rich blood, uH
der certain artificial conditions,
gathered at the heart, filing tina
with aff1uent rapture but leavin
the body chilled and colorless.
i Our hero who imputes to him
self as holding the key of the fs
bled 'Pandora's box" his spaciop
sorhistry italicized. Though b
write or print with his pen Q
type, charged with honey dew upo
the lilly leaf yet the characters ar
q forgery and his lofty sentiment
tsham while he hangs his tattere
shreds of his political pjety and b
filthy rags of bigotry to publ
gaze. Now, Mr.. Ford, we as th
delegated power over the affairs c
municipal matters of Pulaski
think you have arrogated authorit
and privileges that don't belong t
you. And we would kindly.re
quest you to ask yourself the tw
great questions, which the philost
ply Of al! ages has endorsed just t
| solve the two questions as apple
| to yourself: F"Where am / an
what en- Ip' We, the council
would enquire, have you found thu
resting place for your lever tina
Archimiaes said if he bad he coult
turn the world out Of its anglesi
Have you djscoyed the first cell on
: of which the universe has bee
evolved2 Have you discovered th'
matter was satura ted with som
thing else which though it migl
escape the observation oursenses il
ney ertheless, bound up with !
what is called piHd with force &C
ing with it producing changes (
which we become conscious an
which we are accustomed to call iii
and that an Interchangeable law go1
ems mind aud matter? We woul
further ask has it been disclosed
you the ideal Of perfection an
which man collectively Is bound
reach ia future time?
l Now, with these few remarks a
pein tiers we close with this to say
, "But those opened eyes like the met'
, ors OF heaven,
All of one nature, OF one substan,
bred,
Did lately meet In the intestine shocl
Should now in mutual, well-becomiu
ranks march all one way"
Take this as the barrel thrown
the whale. The COUNCIL.