The Wahpeton times. [volume] (Wahpeton, Richland County, Dakota [N.D.]) 1879-1919, 1889-02-14

The other day we propounded the
following interrogation to the Da-
kota Globe:
NOT A RAD THING.
We notice that some of our pro-
hibitory inclined exchanges are
copying this little editorial from
the Dakota Globe:
':There is little doubt but that an
iron-clad prohibitory law will be
en- acted by the present legislature.
II the law is built right it may not
be such bad thing"
Now will the Globe explain its po-
sition In this matter, leaving the
impression that it is not on the
fence Z? What kind of prohibitory
law would the Globe consider a
good thing? We. have had the
Globe on the..other side.
And the Globe got about as near
the subject in answering as its we'll
known propensity for misrepresen-
tation ever allows:
The Times need not worry its
poor little soul about which side of
the prohibition question the Globe
will take in the future. The Globe
will take some position and will
look out for the interests of its
friends, and it knows who its friends
are. The Times deserted its friends
in the hour of need in ~, and sold its
little influence to q conscienceless
lot of political shysters for tax
list. Again in 1888 The Times lit
tie mouth quivered a month before
it could screw up courage enough
to say a word for the men who had
kept it alive ever since its editor
crossed the Bois des Sioux with
hatful of old long primer. No,
Georgy, the Globe isn't in need of
your s0licitous care. Our friends
will care for US. and they are the
only ones the Globe cares Il contl-
mental about.
Needn't worry about the position
OF tho Globe on the prohibition
question in the future, rs it is 60
ing to take position We were
not talking about the future.
Rather the past and present. But
then if the Globe is going to take
position on something. there will
certainly be no occasion for "worry"
on that particular thing. sure
enough. that sheet would do its own
worrying then In '87 the Globe
was weak and fussy, first on one
side and then on the other, and up
to recently it has been one way
with much of empty show and pa
laver.' presumably 'looking out for
the interests of its friends" and
now since it "knows who it's friends
are' proposes to take a position
somewhere and continue its good
work. That is a brilliant idea and
it shows how a prohibitory liquor
law would be good thing with
vengeance! The Globe man has
great head.
Were it to save the life of our es-
teemed contemporary (emphasis on
the contempt it could not lay its
finger on an editorial utterancs by
The TIMES favorable to the idea
that prohibition was feasible in Da-
kota; nor was such thing ever ut.
tered privately or any other way by
the editor of THE TINES. But as
explained at the time, in ~ we saw
fit to simply defer the discussion of
the prohibitory question pending an
election, opening our columns to
any and all who chose to air their
opinions pro and con, q thing done
by papers every day in the year all
over the land, and we did this for
the consideration cited by the Globe,
"a thing that any man living
would have done under similar cir
cumstances. But mind you there
is a vast difference between pa
per's exercising-clearly its own
privileges-to discuss or not to dis
cuss given subject, and selling its
editorial opinions and all influence
at its command for given thing as
the Globe charges. A vast differ
ence here. And the truth is, and
what worries the Globe the most is,
the fact that it sold itself "body and
breeches" to the prohibs, the peo-
pie it now denounces with such a
flourish, launching what it promised
in the deal--pulverizing editorials
which were to do up the liquor traf-
tic with one fell swoop,-the same
sort of swoop with which it is now
saving its friends! and with which
it is explaining to an expectant
constituency, the beauties to be
found in prohibitory law! All. this
''heavy weight editor of the Globe"
is wonderful fellow, is he!
In '88 The TIMES made no undue
bluster and empty professions to at
tract attention, in fact that is not
its profession. The prohibs had