St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1889-09-20
ARIZONA MAN STILL KICKING.
The Smooth and Even Flow OF
Edieoria al Life i'm the West.

The Smooth and Even FLOW OF
Editorial Life in the West.
Detroit Free Press.
We extract the following from the
last issue Of the Arizona Kicker:
Mr.. Wanamaker-As is known to
such of our subscribers as can read,
MI. Wanamaker is postmaster general.
He is also interested in clothing and
other goods in Philadelphia. For the
last five months we have been writing to
Mr.. Wanamaker at least three times
per week regarding our postoffice. 1t is
held by man who hasn't one single
qualification and who is obnoxious to
the people. He received the appoint
ment for shooting man who hurrahed
for Cleveland. We set out to secure
this postoffce plum for ourself. 1t nat
urally belongs to and should be run in
connection with great weekly news
paper like 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 he can afford to
ignore us we can afford to ignore him.
Let the watchword of every patriotic
citizen be ''SimilibuS curantur!' which
means that we can't be crushed beneath
the tyrant's heel-not this season.
Keep Clear of it, We notice some
cheap printing on the wall to announce
the fact that Welsh & Golfers circus
will appear in our town on the 18th.
No representative of the show has
called at our office 10 secure adver-
Using or printing. or to leave the
usual free tickets. We are therefore
satisfied that it is snide concern and
should be given the cold cut. A show
of any sort which Sneaks past a news
paper Office is fraud on the public and
should be so treated. Let no one sink
his manhood by patroniZing Welsh q
Collier.
LATER.-Since the above was in type
we have received call from Mr.. George
De Vol, the handsome, accomplished
and liberal-minded agent of this circus.
He left fifteen free tickets with us, con-
tracted for column ad, and gave US
the printing of 1000 date lines. The
circus, as 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
patrOnlZe 1t.
We Took Water-The old imbecile
who publishes the dishrag journal down
the street is out this week in a scare
head article relating to us. 1t is in re-
lation to that little affair at Iancey'S
one night last week. The dIShrag says
we played the part of coward, and adj
vises that we be treated with contempt.
Let us explain. We dropped into
into Yancey's gambling house to pick
up few subscribers. We ran across
Bill Thomas, Familiarity known as
first thing we knew he had a revolver
at our nose and was asking us
to take back something. We hadn't
a 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-twe men every year for the
last twenty years has the drop on us we
are going to take water every time, and
do it grac fully, too. If that's the part
of a coward, then the dishrag has hit us
right.
There Is Change-Some of our old
pioneers boast that they are imperyious
to civilization, and that philanthropy
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 cottonwood
half dozen of the crowd interfered
and demanded to know the reason why
he was being lynched. 1t was duly ex-
planned that he was worthless cuSS
who was barnacle on society and that
the boys hadn't had any fun for sew
eral 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 town or go to work. A year
ago he would have been hung withouta
word of inquiry or protest. We believe
that the mawkish sentiment of the East
is creeping this way, and that it will
in time upset our most sacred institu-
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