St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1891-02-21
SHAMEFUL TACTICS.

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A very disgraosful piece q Il
legged "moral" Journalism has, II
ter much effort: beeh exposed, Wit
tn result, It b to be hoped, Of o.
trscising tho perpetratoes nom q
decent assooiati0Qs.
John 3. Howe, Publisher OF Ii
Sabine Banner, Zone oe the mos
rabid and vooiferous anti-loster!
papers In The State, tried to eel
out the concern to Mr.. John A
4orrk. The offer Was rejected Il
. dignided note, In which Mr.. Nor
re said, through his private score
tary, Mr.. Lalling, that be was no
In the buslness OF subsidizing th,
press, and desired that there shoult
b . tree, frank, untrammeled dis
oussion Of the proposed oonstitu
tional amendment and . decision by
the people under these conditions
Publisher Howe then changed BIZ
tactics. Averring that tho edito,
was . bitter foe Of the revenu<
amendment, he wrote to NJ. Lal.
ling proposing to borrow $500 Of
Mr.. Morris, With which he would
buy out this antagouistic interest
and change the paper to ''pro'.
lottery. No notice was taken Of
this ''macing" scheme, bat the
facts got out and were printed In
the Robeline News
To OBJECT this crushing exposure,
deliberate forgery Was resorted to,
and . letter printed In the Sabine
Banner, purposting to come from
VIZ. Lalling and over his signature,
In which that gentleman IL made to
coOlly confess to this disappointed
applicant for . ''loan," that Mr..
Morris had bought up al the pa
pers be intended to buy, that the
business did not pay, with . lot Of
other absurd nonsense that only 4
fool blinded with anger could have
Of. Yet this ingram
NAUTICAL, RECONSTRUCTED and ma
liciously knavish concoction was
maintained - genuine by the Ham
ner.
Mr.. Lalling offered to donate
$1,000 tc the depleted public school
fund Of Sabine parish, as follows:
''Now, I make you the following
proposition, in ORDER to show my
perfect sincerity and trutl,fulness
when / declare that the letter Of
Nov. % IL . forgery. II you win
have the Two letters-one OF which
wrote and the other I did not
unlimited tn the professor Of pen
nanship and the professor Of rhet-
MIC In any college In the United
States outside Of Louisiana, and
hey will declare that the two letters
we're signed by one and the same
nan, I viii donate the sum Of
1000 to the public schools Of the
'arish OF Sabine, It to be expended
. In the judgment OF your public |
chool board may b best
This generous offer was refused, |
md instead Of justice being done, |
hreats and inuendo we're resorted |
o. Subsequently > proposition to |
ubmit the two letters to the deci-
ION, upon the point Of forgery, to
Il. c. Harrison Parker, editor Of
be New Delta. Was rejected.
But persistescy at last won, and
ow comes the crushing expose In
be Robeline News Of the 7th, u
flows:
e SueE YoUR Ssx waLL Fun You
Our.
The following letter was sent us
ON New Orleans. which explains
self:
4axY, La, Jan. "a, 1891.
a. Z J. Barrow. New Orleans: II
Dear Sir-As you have been to
ANY to learn the truth about the |
tier said to have been written by .
. K Lalling, private secretary Of .
,hn A. Morris, to J. f. Howe,
lted Nov. Esd, 1890, and - you
i've not been able 70 get what ri
link ts real justice, I write to tell
~ what I know about the whole
l. have tried my
ut 70 get Howe to tell the
nth, but be has refused. and / I
d that the time has now come for Z
. to tell what I know. I think .
at with the following statemest
mine you viii be able to prove
the people OF Sabine parish, and 9
the whole State, that the letter Of I
~. Esd b . forgery. The fol- r
wing are The facts that I know N.Y. .
q about thb matter.
Before Howe wrote his 6rst let o
: 70 John A. Morris he talked To q
and ~ agreed that We would d
into the newspaper business TO- n
ther u Ne could get The moaey :,
buy . newspaper outfit from = :.
Deris. Howe showed me biz arst q
tee before be cent & al. When d
got . reply from Lalling. dated 9,
~. Is, saying Morris would not :,
'nish Tie money, Howe showed :
that letter also. We then de. ~