Griggs courier. (Cooperstown, Griggs Co., Dak. [N.D.]) 1885-1902, 1893-06-09
MARDEI.L.

Sunday, after making an extended visit
to A. Arnesen and family-more partic-
ularly the family"
"Dot" Policemen Heggy and family
spent Sunday with E. Moason's. But
no arrests were made. owing to the
high degree of morality preserved by
Sheyenne people.
x>1ast Sunday occurred the marriage
Of Miss Belle Larson to Mr.. N. j.
Opheim at the residence of the groom.
Full particulars later.
Did any one hear "dot faller" when
he drove onto the ball ground Sunday.
"By golly but he vas got mat" Now
then my supposed to be christian friend
you undoubtedly remember of being
done up by u COURIER reporter once
before; and please bear in mind Pm u
"Curricr" when I'm started. If you
will please mind your own business
we'll endeavor to mind ours, and play
ball just where we see fit. A gentleman
is gentleman, but when minister
attempts to teach morality by insulting
his people or forcing them to
be moral, he has taken the wrong
course. Put that in your pipe and
smokeit.
Ye scribe was participant in little
discussion in the city of Cooperstown
last Saturday in which certain mer-
chant made a very profitable break
profitable to his neighbor merchants.
Me thinks MIR. w. they better send you
to school of politeness, so you'll learn
to have sense enough to not insult
people though they did stand in the
aisle one minute or two. Mr.. W. you
are surely trade-getter.
The recent "side stab" made by "dear
cid Dad" must be answered. After two
weeks earnest thought he comes out
with the same old story. Why don't
he get up a new speech? After taking
two weeks to compose his slanderous
little speech, he closes by asking some
one else to answer 1saac's speech. thus
far nave failed to see where any of
my prohibition friends have answer ed
me vet: He certainly acknowledges his
inability to answer it, when he pleads
for aid from the public. The first point
he attempts to make is this, "that the
majority are in favor of prohibition. +"
Now doesn't Dad know the majority
are not supporters of the law or it would
be rapidly enforced. The point is this:
Many voted for prohibition who were
known to be lifelong buns. They
voted for measure aud perhaps would
vote for it again, but haven't tho
stamina to stand by it and aid in its en-.
foreement. He calls me a rebel. Thou
slsndereus tongued old liayseed. Dad,
I'm NO more of u rebel than you are.
When q man does net violate the laws
of the land, he is not a rebel. He may
express his views whenever and wher-
ever he sees fit. Supposing for instance
ysu are in favor of free trade and I
should be in favor of the protective
tariff. Are you rebel because you
believe the tariff system to be wrong,
as long as you do not attempt to violate
the law. Seems to mo you are "off
again" might refer to any thing l
might, to whatever column l might,
and it would be impossible to find a
writer as devoid of reason and respect
for his fellow man as you. In the tenn
perance column Of the Courier. read
Our Say" must say, the writer of
that item is entitled to public respect,
as she uses some reason in her way of
looking at the question:; but when a
person calls his fellow man rebe; for
not believing as he does. he better con.
slider. must acknowledge the w. C.
T. U. have done much towards the up
lifting of mankind, put at the same
time, will not admit that intemper.
apce is the cause directly of nine tenths
of the evil, crime and suffering. What
causes the greater percentage of idiOcy
and insanity-is it intemperance? No,
it is the use and practice of the greatest
evil that ever befell mankind. My
method of reasoning may seem queer,
but when the foundation or seed of eyil
is destroyed then there is a possibility
Of making men neral. Purify and
elevate the moral and intellectual
standard and you have attained the
neblest, grandest and greatest of all
achievements that have ever yet been
attained But until this wrong IN the
foundation Of all moral work has been
made right, all labor to make mankind
moral is IN vain. Root out the evil
which is causing the insanity, idiecy