The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1890-01-07
THE ARIZONA KICKER,
A Western Editors Views on Various Mat
tiers and Thinga

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Stop IT.-There's too much poetry
In this Western country-ten times toe
much Every week fifty or more men
and women in this locality, who ought
to be engaged hoeing potatoes or max.
ing rag carpet, worry the life out oil
the best part of seven days to dash
off" poem for the Kicker. Not one
out of five hundred is true poetry, and
not more than one out of bushel is
worth publishing. There should be a
law applying to the country west OF
Omaha law to make it a penal Of
Tense to send poem to a newspaper
unsolicited We are satisfied that this
rhyme-jingling has retarded the growth
of the West twenty years. and it will
continue to work against las until there
Is law to stop it.
Nor APPRECIATED efforts of a
hundred or more of our citizens to
make up for the lack of natural
scenery in and around the town by
standing on the street corners with
legs crossed and hands in pockets is
not appreciated by those competent to
judge of effects. 1t is pretty hard for
a red-eyed old squat like Judge Harri-
son to pose in such a way as to pass for
noble cataract. and the efforts of
Major Philbrick to pass himself off as
a substitute for precipice five hun
dred feet high brings ridicule on the
whole county. Gentlemen. your proper
pose is in lock-step line. We are ad-
vising you as friend.
We CAN'T SEE IT.-Our contempt
rary down the street is tickled almost
to death because Major Bilden has been
appointed postmaster of this town,
and because, as it affirms, the editor of
the Kicker got left. We can't see any
thing TO laugh at. We were the best
man by long odds among the twenty
applicants, and if Wanamaker
couldn't see it the fault was not ours.
We expected to get the appointment
and ought to have had it. The man
who did get it doesn't know enough to
run peanut stand and If the Kicker
doesn't make his life miserable for the
next year then We don't want cent.
As for our old knock-kneed, bald
headed. squint-eyed contemporary who
wears a grin on his phiz, we will see
him later. We are fishing to get hold
OF the chattel mortgage given on his
office three months ago, and if We
succeed he will hear something drop.
We STAND NEUTRAL--The editor Of
the Kicker has been asked TO express
his opinion on the conduct of Presi-
dent Harrison in furnishing fat places
to so many of his relatives. We stand
neutral on that question. having an
application on file in Washington TO
be appointed Indian Commissioner for
this reservation. IL we don't get tho
appointment we shall have a very de-
cided opinion on Mr.. Harrison's nepo-
tlsm. III We do get it we shan't bite
the hand which feeds us.
One MORE CHANCE Billy Dobson,
proprietor of the Blue Front saloon
and gambling house. was the first
subscriber to the Kicker. He en-
couraged us and occasionally lent us
money, and our gratitude has pre-.
vented us from drawing attention to
his den of iniquity. We can't promise
to hold off much longer. We shall
give him one more chance to reform
the place, and If he doesn't improve Ii
we shall give him three or four col
umns per week OF the hottest kind of
language. Gratitude is all right up to
a certain limit. Beyond that an editor
owes duty to the public.
PLEASE EXCUSE.-Our proof-reader
was of on drunk last week and our
two printers were called to Tombstone
to see their mother die. We were
very busy in our grocery, harness
shop. hardware and millinery store,
and the Kicker did not present the ap-
pearance and interest we could have
wished for. We had to chuck in six
columns of old patent medicine ads,
and the first page was the same mat
ter as the week previous, but these
things are trifies incidental to the bus
mess OF a great publishing house. We
trust that our subscrit ers will over
look all mistakes and encourage us to
greater efforts by promptly renewing
their subscriptions.-Detroit Free
Press.