The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1894-04-20

had always thought that head
llues were always induces or pointers
to important or striking passages IN 4
letter or article which the editors mt
before said documents. Now here i
one Of your headlines over one Of nv
articles that you published in your is
sue Of March S0th last, to-wit: "a
sound price no where else is made tn
t. guarantee sound article.p I said IN
my article that in South Carolina "a
sound price guaranteed a und ar
ticle." did not say this was so mo
where else" Consequently your
headline does not point to anything /
said and therefore it is something YOU
say yourself and you have no right to
attach It to my article as if said by
myself.
In my article / was condemning
Misrepresentation on the part of men
IN trade and is it possible that the
Banner can think it is not immoral
and wicked to misrepresent the facts
Ia trading2 And is it possible that the
Banner can think 1t right and Just to
reap the advantage and profit occur
ing from misrepresentation? And is it
possible thatthe Banner can maintain
that our courts ought to protect either
party IN such conduct? Icannot be-
lleve 1t. When the h amer has thought
seriously it will not support such
doctrine.
The Banner may be right in main
tanning that nowhere elseu such q
MAXIM holds good. / must confess /
do notknow butone thing do know,
i ought to hold good in every state
and every court, aud rejoice that this
maxim prevailed, at one time, in
South Carolina.
Mr.. Editor, you not only seem to
believe that Misrepresentation is right
but you practice it. You ma me
say in my before mentioned article:
~ know 1t would not be good policy
for you to put anything in your paper
favorable to this debtor" / did not
say that, neither have 1 such low
opinion of you. said s'the debtor,n
meaning the debtor class.
If you and all the courts of all the
states, but one, do not believe misrep-
resentation in trade to be wicked
and immoral, then you must think
the man who puts any faith in the
representations of his neighbor is the
biggest fool out of the asylum or peni-.
Tertiary. and that he deserves to be
vlchmized by the lies of his neigh
bors. This makes every man, woman
and child in the state rascal and a
liar with the understanding that they
have the courts to stand up to and
protect them. Mr.. Editor, you don't
believe this. know you are better
man than that.
Now, Mr.. Editor, let me go down on
the record straight. / ask nothing
more and nothing less. Do not in
iect anything into my articles except
what put ia them myself.
nave always hau q weakness IOr
lawyers. They are such genial, such
merry, such happy, such ready and
smart fellows that really love them,
aud on account Of this weakness am
going to take the liberty to exhort
them to use their ability and elo-
quencs to quash such an unsavory
maxim as exists in the courts of Flor
ida in this matter and substitute in
its place good conscience and equity
and right.
Work to make your fellow men
honest and true and supplant distrust
with faith and confidence between
man and man. VIM. HICKsoN.
The Banner printed Mr.. HIS former
letter exactly as he wrote it, inculd-
ing The paragraph favorable to this
debtor.v What Mr.. H. wrote and
what he thought he did is not the
fault Of the Banner.-E Editor.