Jamestown weekly alert. [volume] (Jamestown, Stutsman County, D.T. [N.D.]) 1882-1925, 1889-02-14
That COr5lne pOstOfHce.

the candid and truthful champion of the
! scheme%so establish postoffice at Mr.
| Young's ard which the people of Cor
inre think may interfere with the contin-
uance Of their own, will be appreciated
best by a-full statement of the indisput-
able facts.
The itea: to which exception was taken
was penned on what your correspondent
supposed was reliable information, and
was substantially correct. The main
points were: Mr.. Young was seeking to
have postoflice located at his place, and
| that Corinne people we're opposed to it,
Both of which were and are true.
The question Of authorship was an i'm
maternal one and as no discredit should
attach to it, your correspondent fails to
see olgft TO cause such intense feeling,
unless it be that he feared that the pub
lie ASSOCIATION Of his name with the pro-
ject would prejudice the people against
it. A consideration your correspondent
cheerfully leaves to the verdict OF those
who know Of the estimation in which he
is held in Corrinne.
People Tere asked to support this pro-
ject, your lrc0rrespondent among the num-
Der. And when he was informed that a
petition was in circulation and Was being
signed he saw no reason to doubt the in
formation. \ petition is or was in exist
ence, It has been shown to Corinne
people. Their signature to petition to
have posto!Iice at Mr. Ioung's has been
solicited. That the champion has not
seen IL ann thai he should be ignorant OF
| these facts is passing strange or would
be- to anyone unaquainted with his trust
ful character and lack of sophistry.
| The inquiry arises: II the Gorinne
postoaiea5 II ns25 be a4fTec-ed wIf are
Corinns people asked to sign for new
postohice, which is equivalent to saying
| to the department. that they will support
it in preference TO the one they now have.
and be thereby led into handi-capping
themselves in any subsequent effort they
may make regarding the C0rinne Off ca?
| Why are their names sought for an Office
in which they have no interest whatever?
LIS it dealing fairly with both the Corinne
postotIice and the United States overn-
| ment?
The champions letter conveys the i'm
preston (innocently OF course could it
be otherwiseD that those who trade at
Mr.. Ioung's wish to get their mail there.
As to Corinns people, with the excep-
ton Of himself, this inference is unquaLi-
fiedly false. Not one of the Corinne
neighborhood desire to do this, tho they
trade at Mr. Youngs when they run short
of supplies and contribute largely to his
custom.
The aspirant's near neighbors will not
sign the petition. At the date Of writing
although he has personally solicited sig
natures or the promise of them. and the
champion has worked toward the same
| end, we know of nCne he has secured, of
only one whom there is any certainty of
securing, Of many whom he cannot. This
| in Corinne.
IF this is not opposition we would like
to know what is. A declaration of war
! perhaps. or an appeal to arms.
| The champions logical attempt to
prove that there is no opposition smacks
strongly of the ugly but witty French
man, who asserted that Paris was the
! most beautiful city in the world, Rue
| Blank the handsomest avenue in it, the
palace in which he lived the finest on 1t,
his room the best in it and himself the
handsomest thing in the room Ergo, he
| was the handsomest man IN the world.
Mr. Ioung is on the extreme southeast
limit of the district served by the Cor
inne postoffice. He is on the western
edge of he district TO the east the cham
piUn spe ks of. We would have here the
anomaly OF post Office which the settlers
nearest it declare they will not patronlze
and at the outer edge 0f tie circle OF pa
irons Of which it should be the center,
and some OF whom are better served tlt@n
they would be by an Office at YouDgs. rs
they often get mail every day through
the passing teams going to and coming
from Da1ey, which is the depot OF sup
plies for nefrly all in this section.
1t is fortunate that the reputation Of
the courteous champion. as man who
always looks after the interests Of others
before his own, who never seeks to gain
by iudirection that which cannot be
compassed openly. who never knowingly
violates truth to indulge in "gratuitous
slings" TO crafty his spleen, who never
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malice by representing facts so that false
differences are inevitable; that his repu-
tation, which is co-extensive with "a
knowledge of his character, with those
who have had occasion to know him
best, is founded on such solid moral at
tributes as to preclude the suspicion that
any but the purest motives and a strong
regard for the best interests of his neigh
borhood are.nHencinc his course in this
matter.
If an endeavor to give an impartial
statement of things affecting the inter
est of the people of Corinne has the eff
feet of poisoning the public mind, 1t
must be something venomous In the
scheme itself, or its champion, to have
that effect and not in the mere reporting
of it. Aad this course will be kept re
gardless of self-lnterested censure.
VIM. d. JoHSs.