Indian chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1882-1902, 1895-06-06
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a DIseRA& TO THE TOWN
When the National organ in this
city employed M. Frazee TO edit
its columns II was generally re-
marked around town that the
paper would be converted into a
dirty and abusive sheet, as every
one in the community knows that
the poor, old man is the synonym
of vulgurity and the embodiment
Of profanity and low and unchaste
talk. No one who has ever heard
him, as he sits around the streets
and hotels as he has done for the
last twenty years, and belches
forth his loathsome and disgusting
filth, is surprised at the sheet he
edits. The women and children of
the town have always shrunk from
bis presence, as he has had no re-
spect for either. A week or two
ago we gave the readers of The
CHTEFTAIN hint as to what to ex-
pect. We said that Frazee had
struck his gait, and he has. The
promoters of his sheet are in
corner. Like a handful of des-
perate men, hemmed in on every
side and driven to the wall, they
resort to extreme measures. The
employment OF Frazee is the las
resort of the dirty, bowling mob
that THE CHIEFTAIN has repeated
ly exposed and booted from the
arena of res ectability. The old
man is an object of pity and his
name would not be mentioned only
that he is the plant tool of
dirty men, and this paper deems
it a public duty to expose and
drive out the miserable clan that
are clamoring for public recog-
milton and pose as an elem ent of
respectability in the community.
A man that has the unblushing
effrontery to pay his debts with
less than fifty cents on the dollar
and pocket the remainder, and
stand before honest men without
shame or blush, is dead to every
sensibility of a gentleman. The
man who has lived a life devoid of
every impulse that ennobles life
and clusters around home and
loved ones, and has preferred the
slum. the gutter and the bagnio TO
the bosom OF his family, and has
trampled on and ignored every
right OF the freside, should not try
to pose as a philosopher or figure
in the history of the country. But
rather should he live with his
mouth in the dust of humiliation
before outraged and insulted So
ciety. Humanity is ever ready
with outstretched hands to lift the
fallen, but the man that is to be
rescued from the gutter must offer
at least the restitution of contrition.
The individual that would be
healed of the leprosy must go
wash in the Jordan of repentance.
We ask the people of Vinita to
turn for one brief moment and look
at the mongrel crew that are rally
ing around Frazee and the Cham
pion. In that bloated and blear-
eyed group how many churches
and how many schools are there
represented? A glance at that
crowd carries us back as in a dream
to a time when we had no schools
or churches. To a time when the
bar room bully stalked forth with
pistol and knife and no mans life
was safe. To time when men
talked under their breath of pub
lie m tiers and when free speech
was an unknown quantity. To time
when men stood ready to shoot or
cut the life out of any who dared
speak of law and order. And to
time when the dread of Judge
Parker's court alone stood between
the peaceable citizen and the assas-
sins bullet.