Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1889-12-13
who Mlerepregented2

The Dispatch accuses us OF mISrep-
resenting It IN our issue Of November
%. when we stated that a year or two
ago it gave the HERALD a severe lee
ture and called US a demagogue for
stating that the battle for temperance
was not yet over. The Dispatch told
US that ''the question had been for
ever settled in Kansas.
Last week 1t fairly snOrts with in
| dignation and goes off in this style.
| We have been satisfied for the past two years
that it is impossible for the present editor OF
The Herald to tell the truth as tits for the devil to
/ do righteous act. He has repeatedly and almost
continuously tried to misreDresent us and the true
sentiment of the Dispatch, by all manner of in
] situations, without a word of truth q line Of
Justice in them. Yet he is eyerastingly saying
to the people that he is for peace aud does not like
5ctly the contrary. From general report. and the
many friends the Dispatch mas gained throughout
! the county we believe that the public has con-
/ Guided about we have, that the Herald editor
! is a farce with big F.
Oh, indeed, is that so! Well, now
that the public may see whether we
did or did not misrepresent the Dis
patcb's position a year or two ago, we
republIsh what our contemporary did
say January 18th, 1888. Here it is:
The Herald says we have had only a skirmish
with Temperance in Kansas and the battle Is yet
/ to be fought We do not believe any such non
/ sense. You fail to have seventeen years eXper-
| fence on the temperance question in Kansas. We
have said, and do say without fear Of cOntradic-
ton, that the battle Of temperance is fought and
| the victory ours.
Our reply in the HERALD Of Janu-
airy 24th, 1888, was as follows:
The above is from the Dispatch Of
last week. That paper misquOtes the
HERALD. We did not say that I'VE
had only a skirmish with Temperance
in Kansas" Here is what the HER
AID said: ''Why bless your soul
neighbOr, the greatest battles against
the rum traffic are yet to be fought
Up to this time there has been but
little skirmishing. So long as men
get drunk and whip their wives, and
fight and Kill people and commit sui
eide while insane from drink, and so
long as the law is violated by the
liquor dealers, we do not believe that
the temperance question has been set
tied. The Dispatch seems to think
that after prohibItOry laws have been
passed there is nothing further to do.
The HERALD is Of the opinion that it
may take several years yet to settle
the temperance question. The child
ren must be taught in the schools and
elsewhere that alcohol is a poison,
and that it is disgraceful and wicked
to become intoxicated The press
/ and the pulpit must work to create a
public sentiment that will enforce the
law against the Illegal sale Of intoxi-
cants, and the time may, and we be-
inve will come when incompetence
will be largely done away with. Oh
2 no, MIR. Dispatch. the fight against
, intemperance is not over yet in the
> estimation of those who regard it as
great evil.
We now leave 1t to our readers tt
{ say whether we did or did not two
n weeks ago misrepresent the position
+ the Dispatch occupied in January
b 1888. About that time, Djsputci
readers will remember, it scolded a
q us for printing temperance articles
and more than once enquired wha
lie the HERALD was making such a fus
ID about temperance for, as that ques
lie ton had been fully settled in Kansas
At We Intentionally nisrepresent n
one, and because we did not misrepre
e sent our contemporary, but commend
e ed it for its change of attitude o.
IS that subject, is what has so angere,
it. 1t is no discredit to you, neighbol
o that you have changed your position
= for the best Of people do that some
? times. To get angry when anothe
I alludes to the change is where yO
! manifest your weakness. Not lon
S, ago the Dispatch editor printed Gu
IS Of donkey which he claimed was
L correct likeness Of the editor Of til
- HERALD, and last week he compare
us to the devil. We are sorry to Sc
d him become so 'hot'' and get so ''rat
&c tied" over our fatherly admonitions.
:. We assure the public, however, th5
ii there viii be no duels fought betwee
o. us and the editor of the DjsDatcI
It We are both old, battle-scarred nine
is ty days soldiers who saw hard servic
at at Davenport, Iowa, and Camp Chas
s Ohio, and we have seen enough figh
he ing except with lead pencils at Ion
8. range.
N Estrayed,