Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1888-02-09
BRoUKwAY CENTRE MARKET
Report corrected every Wednesday by
w. w Grinnell, Grain Buyer.
VERITAS VS.. CITIZEN.

is found quite characteristic of its
author. lie begins by intimating that
his "open letter" cast no reflection upon
village council and that those who sign
ed it did not nor could not believe that
council knew anything about the facts
and the object was to call their atten-
ton to the same. Constant practice
has made citizen an elegant prevarica-
tor | quote from open letter directed
to Village Council "by implied assent
in not compelling payment of full
amount of tax as required by law you
have forced the conclusion upon us
that favoritism obtains unless you
equalize with others, &c" and goes on
to request council to violate the law.
Perhaps this ought not to be consider
ed an insult coming as it does from
Citizen; but it would be, coming from
any other source. The whole fact of
the matter is, Citizen in his eager
ness to make himself conspicuous at
this time has let drive with his old blum
derbus, as usual irrespective of cOnse-
quences and the result is, he has hit
some one he now wishes he had missed,
and he now seeks to crawl out of the
dilemma by stating, mo one blameS
the council for not collecting tax &c,
but every good citizen would expect
them to place their brand of displea-
sure upon officials who wont perform
their duty" Oh, Citizen, that is the
smallest hole that a great big fabrica-
tor ever tried to make his exit from.
Do you not suppose that every one
knows that every official outside of
council to whom you could possibly re-
fer, is appointed by this very council,
and subject to removal by them at any
time if he fails to do his duty? Come
Citizen you will surely disgust those
whom you are trying so hard to make be-
lieve that you are so goody goody, ifyOu
don't stop trying to evade former state
ments and the truth. Of course you
| found fault with the council. Citizen
has changed his mind recently. At
first he alleges that it is the Marshal's
duty to visit these places where liquor
| is sold, to find whether law is being
violated, but now he finds after posting
up. that this refers to liquor traffic and
not the tax law, so he tries to crawl out
again by referring to clause of new
law which says that sheriffs, police Off
GERS &c. shall close all places found vio-
lating the law. But, dear Citizen, it
says not word in regard to their visit
ing these places to look after violations
of tax law, that is still provided for un-
der old law, to be done by Supervisors,
| &c.
No, Citizen, it is not unfortunate, as
you say, that good citizens have been
secured to the side of justice and right;
there is where you will always find
them; but what amuses us is the way
in which you claim relationship to this
class of people.
The principle that liquor sellers and
quired by law and none escape from
the rule, is one which every good citi-
zen should support. But, Citizen, where
have we found you in the past? First
we find you champion of outlawry by
whee ling few dupes into the idea
that they can successfully resist the
tax law and promising for small con-
sideration to clear them from paying
taxes. Next we see you in a role of
prime pusher in scheme to enjoin the
Co. Treasurer from paying liquor tax
over to the village where it properly be-
longed, and we could go on in this way
in-ad-fnitum. But now what q meta
morphosis. All at once the cloven foot
is hidden under the "garb of an angel
of light" and we are preached reforma-
ton and obeyance of liquor and all 9TH
er law. Citizen is it any wonder we
doubt your sincerity? You say that
open letter was to bring about discus
sion Of the liquor matters, was it for
that sole purpose also that motion of
similar nature was made before the
town board, or was it because some one
was 10 receive the munifcent sum of
$500 in each of these cases if he could
get back the liquor money for those
who had paid it according TO law. Citi-
zen thinks he ought to have credit for
not playing double. lie doesn't fire.
quent low dives and go to church on
Sunday. No, Citizen, we never accused
you of going to church but we are
aware of your dive business and know
that it seldom letsu even on Sunday
Citizen accuses Veritas of calling some
persons intellectual abortions." You
are wrong Citizen, he never used the