The weekly tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1891-1894, 1892-12-30
TO BE 4 PHARiSEE.

Ol peIleClluu ON'T the way pcNeiai
communications regarding him have
been suppressed in this office because
we realize how n~Guseating it is to the
readers Of newspapers to have to endure
a war of words between the men EN-
ployed to edit them.
This so.called contemporary has
heaped all kinds of abuse personal and
by inference upon The TRIBUNE, its pro-
p~rietors and its editor, and there are
many foolish people who ask why we
make no reply to his assaults. in his
issue of last night he goes beyond his
usual tactics and makes an assault on
several of the most respected, generous
hearted and public-spiritcd citizens of
this city because they were charitable
enough TO supply food, fuel and clothing
for some of the suffering poor. This is
the disgruntied pharisce's way of vent
ing his spleen on his bctters:
While the TRIBUNE has been making
IA great howl about charity and giving to
the poor and publishing the names of
those who contributed t. its relief fund
two or three ladies have been quietly
and unostentatiously taking care Of
some of the very parties reported to have
been discovered by lhe TRIBUNE commit
tee and who have already spent them
selves more money than that raised by
the TEIBCNE. There is a kind of charity
which publishes itself to the world and
is disappointed if it is not generally adj
vertised. There is another kind which
does quietly and judiciously without
wishing to be known real charity.
This brutal and g%roundless attack
could cmanatc only from a brain totally
corrupt and dcpraved. On what preteXt
will any nan write such ii paragraph:
In what manner did the subscribers TO Il
poor fund offend this sweet pink Of per-
fecticn: His best friend could not find
an excuse for his wanton disregard for
d~ecerc! and propriety.
Nov, inasmuch as he did not hold his
peace but has again allowed his villain
Gus malice to move him to further at
lacks in this direction, one of the sup
pressed letters. which we have held for
several days hoping 10 occasion would
arise to use it. is here reproduced:
LITTLE BELT MONTANA. Dee. ~. 1892.
To THE EDrroE OF The TRIBUNE:
Sir: We have IA big betting laid up
here for Rolfe. the high muck-a-muck of
that paper called the Leader. We in
dorsc every word you have said about
him. He is a pickayune thief. His soul
In fact. a friend at my elbow. one of the
many victims of his dirty, lying frauds,
says he wasn't born with any soul at all,
and | guess that's the Gods truth about
him. | don't know why the people of
your great and enterprising town will
support such a jackdaw. | have heard
scores of the best men here say that he
is a curse to the place. Why ought such
a cur to have power to cry down the
ToWnsite company, when everybody
knows if it hadn't been for the Townsite
company there would not have been n
city of Great Falls: The Townsite com
pany took him from the mire. | have
Just received "a letter from "a friend in
tending to come from the east to Great
Falls in the spring, asking me to tell him
if the Great Falls Townsite company is
a highway robber gang. This is some Of
the influence spread abroad against the
town by Rolfe and his dirty paper. /
could tell you of other instances showing
the same thing. We are interested in
the prosperity Of Great Falls, because it
is the market for our ores and farm
produce. We are ready to help in any
project set on foot to get quit Of Rolfe
and his sheet. \ skunk issweet-scented
compared With such a tiend. \ China
man is a prince to him. Yours truly.
\ BoLTEE.
It il extremely dis, asteful to THE
| TEuHUNE to publish such matter as this
but the time has come for the pink Of
perfection to take a tack and alter his
course. He should do SO for his own
sake as well as for that Of the public,
Il is not possible that he can go on with
IMMUNITY attacking the best interests Of
this city, running down its most honor
able and respected citizens. and even
abusing those who give to charity, with
out exciting the di-gust and contempt
Of all good citizens. Il is scarcely to be
credited that IA man possessing unim-
paired faculties can make such d mess
Of ms duties as ii citizen.
70 this paper all that he can say in the
way Of SANDER and abuse is Of the vi
most Indifference. but "" sincerely re
gret that the public interests should
have to suffer from this Unfortunate
cause. The pink's friends. if ne has one
who has nerve enough. should advise
him 70 turn over . new leaf and he more
decent.
IItDiSG OF ESTION~.