Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1889-11-01

The Smooth and Even Flow Of Editorial
Life in the West


The ARIZONA Ran STILL EICKIN6,
The Smooth and Even Flow Of Editorial
Life In the West
We extract the following items from
the last Issue of the ATizOTG Kicker
Mr.. WANA1TAKER.-As is known 80
such of our subscribers as can read,
Mr.. Wanamaker is Postmas6er. Gen
eral. He IS also interested in clothing
and other goods in Philadelphia For
the last five months we have been writ
ing to Mr.. Wanamaker at least three
times per week regarding our Post
Office. 1t Is held by a man who hasn't
one single qualification and who is OBJ
noxlOus to the people He received
the appointment for shooting a man
who hurrahed for Cleveland. We set
out to secure the Postoffice plum for
OurseIf. 1t naturally belongs to, and
should be run in connection with, q
great weekly family newspaper ike the
Kicker.
Mr.. Wanamaker has not seen fit to
answer our last fifteen communications
He doesn't seem to care a copper. cent
for the welfare of our people. We have
been giving him rope, but the limit is
reached. From this date on let every
citizen of this town refuse to purchase
any goods coming from Wanamaker's.
Meet like with like. If ne can afford
to ignore US we can afford to ignore
him. Let the watchwOrd of everv
patriotic citizen be " SjnljEiJatS c1tra95-
tltg'!" which means that we can't be
crushed under the tyrant's heeI-not
this season.
KEEP CLEAR OF Tive notice some
cheap printing on the wall to announce
the fact that Welsh & Golfers circus
viii appear in our town the 18th. No
representative of the show has called
at our Office to secure advertising or
printing, or to leave the usual free tick
cts. We are therefore satisfied that it
IS a snIde concern and should be given
the cold cut. A show of any sort which
sneaks past a newspaper Office is a fraud
on the public and should be so treated.
Let no one sink his manhood by patrons
ling Welsh & Collier
LATER. the above was in tvoe
we have received a call from Mr..
George De Vol, the handsome, accom-
plished, and hberal-minded agent of
this circus. He left fifteen free tickets
with us, contracted for a column ad,
and gave us the printing of 1000 date
lines. The circus, we are happy to
state, is one of the best in the country.
and we trust that every man, woman,
and child for twenty miles around Will
turn out to patronize it.
WE Took WATER.-The old imbeciIe
who publishes the dishrag Journal
down the street is out this week in
scare head article relating to US. tits
in relation to that little affair at Yam
cey's one night last week. The dishrag
says we played the part of a coward,
and advises that we be treated with
contempt J
Let us explain. We dropped into
Yancey's gambling house to pick up a
few subscribers. We ran across Bill
Thomas, Familiarity known as Shoot
YOu-Dead William, and the first thing
We knew he had a revolver at our nose
and was asking us to take back some
thing. We hadn't clear idea of what
he wanted us to retract, but we took
back everything we could think of, and
we weren't over two minutes about it,
either. When man who has made it
his practice of killing fifty-twO men
every year for the last twenty years has
the drop on us we are going to take
water every time, and do it gracefully,
too. IF that's the part of a coward,
then the dishrag has hit US right.
THERE Is A CHANGE.-SOme of our
old pioneers boast that they are i'm
perviOus to civilization, and that phi
lanthrOpy and sentiment have found no
lodging place here. And yet we can
see that a change is going on despite
these boasts. The other night when
the boys caught Comanche Bill and
got ready to pull him up to a cotton
wood half dozen Of the crowd inter
fered and demanded to know the reason
why he was being Iynched. It was
duly explained that he was a worthless
cuss who was a barnacle on society and
that the boys hadn't had any fun for
several weeks, and yet that hanging
didn't go off. The crowd was made to
let Bill off on his promise that he
would skip the tow or go to work. A
year ago he would have been hung
without a word of inquiry or protest.
We believe that the mawkish sentiment
of the East is creeping this way, and
that it viii in time upset our most
sacred institutions. - Detroit Free