The Kinsley graphic. [volume] (Kinsley, Kan.) 1890-1940, 1891-09-18
EINANcEAL-E ACULTY

~ FIE4 Nclk-4L- sE4CPLFY.
TIE Mercury mat took advantage
Of his position rs editor Of a paper to
make , venOMous personal uttack Oh
la worthy citizen of this city against
whom he eutertuines bitter personal
luminosity.
The person against whom this mali
cious paragraph is ained, is an indus
triou5 mechanic who does more work
IN one year than Hebron has probably
performed in his whole life. He has
never been known TO remain Idle when
work fQYld. he obtained. He has sup
ported aud educated a family in as
comfortable a manner as can be done
by any mechapic in the country, and
though owing TO the stagngtiOD.. in
business and general hard times. he
has not been able to pay of the mort
gage WHICH formed part Of the pur-
chase price Of his house, he has kept
his bills around town paid Up and is
not owing every merchant, grocer,
and other business men in town FOR
the necessaries Of life as some we wot
of are. Neither is this man a self
constituted leader in politics.. lie
has never undertaken to enlighten
the public on the financial OF any
other question. from :, the rostrunl,
but only. committed the unpar-
donable sin Of thinking for himself
and expressing his opinions to his
associates on the public questions OF
the day, without taking the precau-
ton to make them correspond in every
respect with those Of the infallible edi-
tor of the Mercury, and for this heinous
Offense he must be punished by having
lis mjsfortunes paraded before the
public gaze and himself held UP 20
public ridieule.
We you'd have supposed, however,
that before the Mercury man would
have allowed his spleen to overcome
his ordinarily generous spirit, he would
have turned his analytical and critical
gaze in retfospsctWs installation upon
his own financial career, to see if pur-
chancs. there might not be some
peculiar episodes that possibly might
not meet the entire appreciation of
that exacting spirit of financial crlti-
cism that seemed to dominate his
mind when he sat down to indite Pie
paragraph in question.
we think that if Brother Hebron
had engaged in a retrospective
revery ,such wave Of sympathtie feel
ing would have engulfsd his soul that
the last vestige Of anger and acrimony
would have been swept from his mind,
and he would have felt more like
EzliHsltsag tits tears Of HsTrow with those
of the subject Of his censuTe. than
like tauntiHg him with his misfortunes.
Possibly such revery would have
recalled to his mind the scene at the
court house door, a few years ago,
when the iaexorable sheriff, urged by
q grasping creditor, sold the Palatial
mansion which had erstwhiIe been the
pride and property of the Nercssry man.
Very likely, too, he would have TeeoI-
Iected the exciting TING not long ago
when the Asrc1sTy man entered his
newspaper office one morning only TO
iind that a merciless mortgage, who
held Z cIIattel mortgage upon the
plant of the Mercury office, not entirely
satisfied with the financial methods OF
Bro. Hebron, had taken possession OF
the property 70 secure his debt. No
doubt if he had remained in medits-
ticn a short time longer, he could have
called 10 mind H1oasRful miscbaRees of
the sans eha4Rctsr, which might have
caused the suspicious OuteV world TO
regard his ability as a tinancier not
hardly rsneh rs 20 Rntiple 4Itp1 70 the
/ cegn0uIeil 81 the apUleOli Of finance, -
even though At the time his financial
dissertations in the Mercury ca the
! wonderful career OF financial prosper
| ity upon which the city of kinsley was
about TO enter fssld his description of
| the uaHlIlspth l'iicking-: h0uses' and
I papieF-Iaeila IaeteItss that were
/ shortly 20 be eFactsSf, esnsed tho peo-
L pie't5 I3lgFYel at his wolidsrfuF; powers
Of prophetic vision.
] If Bro. EfehEna had INDUCED IN such
/ n FeYeFy, we Believe that rejecting upon
] t5-E -tsss ztr15-s 1-l % ciat cftraSEr0r5hes
! -if-A t1n|t irs--s- -Fest9-,a even men Of
< fue-Ciles~ Fzll4d= I'D -Ie discussion Gf
Z economic prDbiems- hs would have
I extended tlle mantle Of charity over
! the misfuTfunas TT h5s errihg brother
and rsfTsliIied from such an unholy
assault upnn ting p5gsoissf character Of
a UoTthy, tiloaEli haH1le el1iEen-