The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1889-07-11

'oic w pfeNall aIal9st H.
HE CITIZEN ex s,cd athg-
state and under other names away
back in the early days Tenues-
see when our fathers were uoys.
out 1t assumed Is present ntbe IN
In 1885 under McCord manage men;
and except for Iour years, when 1t
went into hiiing from the yankees,
1t has continued growing with the
years, widenit Z It's scope, iucreas-
ing Its efforts, reaching further an 4
tarther out into feids OF useful
ness, getting closer AMI closer to
the people and invading home af-
ter home, until nearly all the peo-
pie are its pat. ons and breads, BE-
cause IL has been the uatirlng and
unceasing patron ani friend OF all
the people OF Giles.
L may say it without boast, now
that my interest Is disseferel, that
no country paper within any knosl-
edge has ever been So Iiberslly sus-
tanned and none have excslled 1t in
Efforts to deserve its support a q TO
repay it ten-iold IN efJrJ 10 sd
vance tue IL aerial interests q its
constituents
may be pardoaed for referring
to my own exper. ences for a few
moments, as my life for twenty
years was closely interwoven with
The Cttiz ms re.
"a tue lin day of January,
1898, boy, | mounted tue creAKy
stairs leAdiag up between tue OH
bank building shd the Booker
Shepard store, where the 81. GILES
now stands, and crossed It's dingy
poroals an embryo devil. | do not
mean II IN iinplous sense when | say
thit for twenty years from That
date L had devil of time.
A printe,'s devil Is the bumUlest
or Gods creatures. He has no
emoiuments, and clothing for him
Is supertiuou-, as hi' eentity Is
soon suomerge un.ier crust of
in@ IL office dirt and III ,chine oil
Tue sii'u and stately uthce towel
GhAt na0Ss Ia ST II caters jthlnd the
dooI, .lnc sectlOl Vi y tched-
painted Ia rOoi los ened by storm
and dangling from the caves is al
most his counterpart. He grows
wonderfully attached to the time
worn, Oe-dAuOed ink keg that has
set for years pIaated IN ancient and
honored DIRT under the squeakIng
hand press, and takes implsn de
light Il caresSing the Smeared ink
paddle that jnts out from It's murlly
deoLh-, aud haunts irom its top
mast.the catered remnants Of an old
newspaper placed there to protect
Tue dainty hand of TIA: pampcred
and erudlte editor wnea ne tried 10
III Il qu!uine bottle Will ink for the
use OF tue postmaster down on Buzz
Z ara Creek and got most # it On
the outside OF The OsL,ie.
L would love 10 teli you OF some
of tue trials and triumpns of the
devil, -"Out space torbids," az the
coln -ry editor says whcn he runs
out oi ideas
When | reached the gDot old
iowa OF Pulaski and came TO cast
my .tortne there 1 was possessed
Of $I.65 IN lean cash an /! grip
S scN princ'pIliy stuffed with wind.
| invested my capital ana for twa1
~ long ami arduouS years | nursei
II and tended it, Poverty and prl-
walton formed u league against me
and IN ASSET their egions for serge
AMI they heleagureh my citadel Of
refuge with unceaSing assailment.
SJn+Jlmes 4 SORTED an sometimes
| sort o didn't, bat from each TT
pulse these enemies OF my pea ,e
rushe | again TO the breech, until |
hardly had any breaches left for
them To rush at.
Then tile end came, my twenty
years was, and 10y the mercy o; Goo
ant railroad pass | was able 10
escape, leaving my $l.65 stul in
vested. Tnere lie: it be. 1t cost
cost me -weniy years of my lite try
ing To save it and was reed at
Iast to w,ik out of PaItskl clad in
a siug'e garment meLsphorically
speaking, with grip-sack studel
with bitter memories of financial
disasters, aad the rear guard of my
lonesome garment flute ei low
ing adleu to the sce1es Of my con-
dlct with tn prin e Of the powers
OF poverty.
these are sorrOwfui facts, cO,or
ed little to al orn the tale as | tell
it-but terribly. mis.rably, enor-
molsly, oItrageously true never
thele S.
10 ne more precise and sincer,a
ie+los-oitizens, and perhaps to cor
rect a very general erroneous i'm
preston | want tn say that il there
is any m)aey TO be male ia a coln.
try newspaper have never found
the recipe. Perhaps wanted too
much, AMI perhaps.l dldA't knas
what 1t was worth VIII n got IL aad
let 1t slip. P-rhaps | had 90 10 ,,e
an idea the use Of money l. I
it pass. The fact } il I'll pas.
am cont..nt to kuoH tutt hc
generous, liberal support received
from good rebP.e as q ii has cret
ted was as generously returned &c
them. | have made many thous and
OF dolla in Giles and ] carried not
cent 81 itaVay.
Pardon th>se. personal illusions.
menorou them to Illus rate that ]
am ahou. TO say, and | can say ii
now without ny motive being ques-
toned for | b we not = cent Of in
terest.
Tue greate4t Institution in aay
community Is It's home paper when
rightly AMI honestly conducted !
leave our o: consider .tion the IN.
told inlIeuce 1t may exert upon
he minds and morals of the PEG
pie. 1t goes int the in
ner sanctuary Of the peoples home
to enlignten. Tue ate, inform, lead
up and max VS. and better tht
children Of the people and the PEG
PIE item selves, when il is honestly
c pnluctel. It's power for eYd il
the same, so tdtt it beho ives To
cool people OF any community .,
see that a good home paper sus
tanned and bad one crushed
out.
But it is not this aspect of it tina
! desire particularly todiscuss. bu
| its bearing md influence upon tb
material Interests Of the countr,
AMI people.
Show NE any ecu " paper N.
| I sae "a in a glass the faWn AMI n