Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1893-10-16

pose which it so well serves.
A glance over it convinces me
that there is abundant room
for amendment if the men who
are elected to the legislature
could be induced to serve their
constituents with as much fl
deity and zeal as they do cor
porations. But this is not the
rule in Pennsylvania, if any
where, and this law which
allows supervisors to gives away
secretly and without discussion
something which they only
hold in trust, as it We're, com
forms strictly with many
others on the statute books.
Centre street, along the five
squares from Carbon to Wal
nut, has fifteen vacant busi-
ness places-a greater number.
probably, than at any time for
several years. How it came
that so many stands on the
best business street in town
are unoccupied at present [ do
not know, and can ascribe it
only to the dullness which ex-
listed in the coal trade the past
summer. The eXhorbitant rent
asked for the use of some of
the places may have something
to do with the question, but
whatever is the cause it gives
Freeland a poor appearance to
see these darkened and empty
storerooms. With the coming g
of cold weather | have good
hopes of seeing them filled
: again. The outlook for better
and steadier work is reported
7 to be good, and the consequent
l revival of business which viii
D follow may make the future
S brighter for the merchants
d who have stood the financia
l. stringency remarkably well
e Those who could not perseverc
!, have retired without the aid o:
s Sheriff Walters.
, My reference about six
, weeks ago to the surveying
and probable extension of the
D, S. & S. to Stroudsburg has
finally reached Philadelphia
: and the Press last Friday pub
: lished it as it appeared in these
: columns, with the additiona
g information that it is though
h if the line is begun it will b,
D continued on to tidewater.
have not yet learned anything
l further, and as the company
I has made no statement upon
! the rumor it is likely the
matter is still under considera-
tion. l believe the road will
eventually connect with all
, the principal eastern lines OF
4 may go to the seaboard itself
q but | think it is destined tC
run much farther west than i
l can east.
Y AS usual the Plain Speaker
d bit off more than it could com
d fortably masticate when i
S tried to raise a political storm
II over my allusion to the lethar
o gy of the Democratic voters O.
this locality. On Tuesday il
f1oundered around like a fish
/, out of water, and it's rattle.
S Drained effusions as to what
T constitutes editorial utterances
gave unmistakable signs of its
| bewildered condition. A "sor.
ry-that-I-spoke' flavor was the
2 prominent feature of the arti
: Gle, but, true to itself and its
t policy in controversies, the pa
d per could not reply withou-
y misstating what has already
S been said. Here is one of its
: twisted sentences:
: He says the Paia Speakers editor
, erred when he said that the opinion OF
7 the editor of the TRIBUNE need not be
taken as final decision.
Such nonsense shows how
necessary it is that somebody's
. imagination should be muzzled.
, Another paragraph too rich
to go without reprinting is
this:
y That the "Saunterer" or whoever you
= choose to call him made a bad break,
l his wiggling position clearly shows and
e thanks to the Plain Speaker, which has
no axe to grind, and is therefore a fai,
and impartial judge of the situation, the
! effect of the TRIBUNE's bomb shell was
very dismal, and the TRIBUNE's "saunt
erer" will think up some other scheme
There is a mixture of mag
niloquence and false modesty
: in the above, and, if the staff
can evolve nothing more to the
point, | think it unjust tC
wa TO ti11on =, Il cnoaA