The Dickinson press., 1892-03-05
Reply to the Rev. Mr.. Brown.

EDITOR PRESS:-One l.. +. Brown
refers to me in IL communication
printed in your last issue. l don't
know what induced him to use my
name, except it was to show that he
has been here long enough to know
one or two men outside of the mem
bers of his church, because l have
written no letters for publication.
l signed Il request to the school
board to remove the principal because
l Was convinced that lie was paying
more attention to law and order bust.
ness than he was to his school duties,
for which IL considerable part of my
good money was used to pay him.
l have no objection to Mr.. Brown
or Mr.. Campbell being members of
that mysterious organization, pro.
vided they attend to it on their own
responsibility and in their own time.
l used to think that Il clergyman
was above the using of such language
us appeared in his effusion, but | have
lived long enough to be surprised at
nothing in this advanced age. l have
heard stories told something like the
one lie tells, but they have been told
to men, and not in Il mixed company
of men, women and children, nor have
they been published in family paper.
l have also heard about "two of Il
kind" "four of a kind" but usually
by people who are familiar with
gambling. Taking his letter all in all,
it would be interesting to know what
his "past" has been. Who knows but
he may have been a "tin horn?
He seems wonderfully we'll posted
on slang, cards and racy stories for a
clergyman.
He says that he pays eight dollars
tax. All 1 can say is, that if he has lived
to be so old and has nothing more
than twenty-five times eight dollars
worth of property, which my limited
education tells me after a long siege
} with the figures, is 5000 on which to
pay taxes, l am not surprised at his
} occupying the position he does. 1t
shows to me very plainly that he is
not much of a ~rustler. L am paying
taxes on a considerable amount of
property, more, / think, than all of
the Law and Order League together,
Notwithstanding Mr.. Browns state.
ment to the contrary. l have worked
hard for every dollar l have, have
brought up family too, and have
not made it by selling whisky either
but if l had it was mine.
The main secret of my being able
to accumulate what l have, is because
l have made it a rule to attend to my
own business instead of trying to at
tend to other peoples. 1 will give
e MI. Brown this advice: ATTEND
strictly to your W affairs, don't g
e %sneaking around among your neigh
bors trying to catch them doing some
thing that you, in your limited under
y standing of human nature in thi!
western country, consider to be wrong
and l think in the next thirty year,
d OF so you may get together anothe
: 5000. If you do catch on to some
II thing where you believe you have
# case, go yourself and make the com
n. plant like a man, and don't tel
people that "you knew nothing of it.
Don't put several hundred dollars o
unnecessary expense upon us peopl
"a who are paying heavy taxes, when b
= taking a little courage the complain
could be made without acquiring
large expenditure of money in sun
lg moning witnesses to tell what you al
e. afraid to tell yourself.
III WIN, RAY.