Mohave County miner., 1889-10-12
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Ed. MIxER, Eir:--Ever and anon, at
semi-occasional intervals there have ap-
peared, In the columns Of the MIHER, artr
icles glowing with wisdom and scintiliat-
ing with witicisms and sarcasmss y over
the signature Of "W. Fl. Hardy" This
gentleman seems to be laboring under
under the impression that unless his
name appears in print once each week
under one Of these brilliant literary Of
forts, the citizens Of Mohave county will
lapse into q state Of ignorance and Hit
eracy, from which even the great genius
and profound intellect Of the great fossil-
ferrous law maker" cannot redeem them.
First he expatiatss upon the Degrade
tion and total depravity Of the "Demo-
krats," till every one Is disgusted with
his bosh; then we are reRaled upon some
fossil Indian yarn; next his great steed
that travelled faster and further than the
light Of the sun through interst;,llar
space; and now he feels called upon to
ridicule those citizens who deemed it
the part Of wisdom and discretion, during
the late Indian scare, to take precautions
looking toward the safety Of their prop
erty and families in case any Of the nu-
merous rumors that were afloat should
prove to be not entirely groundless. We
think, Mr.. Editor, that it IL about time
that this fossil crawled into his mosstack
shell.
II has been, apparently, very pleas
ant pastilne for number OF individuals
OF the fossil stripe, who were securely
housed out Of reach OF possible harm In
case Of an Indian outbreak, to ridicule
and poke fun at those citizens in the
more exposed and thinly populated por-
tions Of the county, who considered 1t
their duty to move their families into .
place Of safety. Now that all possible
danger has past and even the most easily
alarmed feel no further dread Of trouble,
it seems to us very much out Of place for
these old fossils to ridicule these people
in print. OF course we expected them,
old woman like, to say ~ told you 90"
but that 10 as far az we propose for them
to 20, The citizens Of this county have
rights that even Hardy is bound to re.
spect, while he is here at home, ii not in
the legislature.
The trouble with Hardy and Ills moss
back board is that people did not all rush
to them and say "Wkst shall we do?
You know all about it; are the Indians
going 10 break out or not?' No, people
did not do that, they did not think Hardy
and his mossbacks knew il all, and every
one else nothing, so they feel slighted
and take this means Of retaliating. Har-
dy rusl,es into print as usual, because he
can't talk loud enough, but the rest take
theirs out in talk.
There are men in this county who have
fought more hostile Indians than Hardy
ever saw, men who have helped to bury
the mutilated and tortured remains OF the
red handed Apache, Comanche, Ute and
Sioux, and they deemed it the part OF
discretion Ito prepare for the worst even
if it never came" Hardy wants us
punished Tor breaking ont" there are
those of US who have seen Hardy severely
punished for breaking out" when he
had come in collision with sthe WalIapais
or Mohayes.
Those Of us who were inconvenienced
by the late Indian scare are like the
South after the war, all we want is to be
let alone. and all we ask Of Mr.. Hardy is
to turn his attention entirely to the
weather. His latest prediction on the
weather is that the country is gradually
drying up. We hope Mr.. Hardy will 90
and do likewise, though it is not necessary
nor desirable that he should do 80 gIadu-
ally. A Few CITIZENS.
Mineral Park, October 9Th, 1889.
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