The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1895-03-06
AnOnen Letter.

cent Young Frieud:-I have read
with much amusement your hu-
morons article in your book compa
ny advertising sheet erstwhile ia
military known as the Wheeling In
telligencer, OF the 18th inst You
appear to consider it horrible
crime to attempt to secure cheaper
school books for the peopie
Esteemed fraud-I mean fsend =
permit me to call your superb in
telIect's attention to the fac that
you are terribly misunderstood
Your unfamiliaity with the ways Of
the world is about 10 get yon into
a difficulty.
Tender idiot-excnse me Intellect
do you not know that the Ameri
can Book Company is a horrible gi
gantic octopus? Why, it is accused
of buying Virginia and Oregon
officials by the wholesale, and of
trying to bdy West Virginia Legis
latures. 1 have heard people say
such a vile thing of you poor, title,
unsophisticated, spectaclel, limo
cent that you are, that that part OF
you which was not in the employ
ment of the Virginia debt sy saas,eite,
was engaged in doing the bidding of
the American Book Company for a
consideration after "Nr.--
had been secn," and l weep great
scaldlng tears, that one SO pure
should be so assaulted, as l insist il
can not be true.
Your humor in your precious ef
fusion of the Goth, is 50 profound,
that fear you have a pain down
below your heart. The way the
"pestiferous minority" in the Legis
lature got away with the majority to
the tune of % to /, on the school
book question, turns you inside out
in way to electrify the State.
What a splendid compliment you
pay to the Intelligence of the Re
publican Legislature in this grotes
que donning of the cap and bells
By the way, did not the aforesaid
Legislature at one time call you
common liar, instead of prevari-
Gator? Perhaps that effected your
phantasy or came across the spirit
of your dreams. Pretty child, as
you romark, Delegate Morris 10
deed had book bill ready to dump
on the House of Delegates at the
start. Why, shorn lamb? Because
he knew the methods of the Ameri
can Book Company, publisher Of
McGuffy's "hoodoos," contributor to
Democratic campaign funds, pur-
chaser ofcorrupt newspapers, would
be manipulation of Legislatures, dis
penser of cash, theater tickets, cam
paign, whisky, tobacco, and other
still choicer articles in the interests
of pure books TO American children
and wanted 10 be good ready for it.
OF course darling Cinderella, you
would never hear of these vile
methods and your precious newspa
per is as guileless as a new born as
ISOLATION of things
Yes, Burdettc, Morris is awfully
hurt because he failed to get on a
school book board, lie meant devil
ment to all corrupt book concerns
and of course a failure to get a
chance to work for nothing, as be
had to do for forty FIVE days, in the
interests of the poor, tore him all
ur. Still he is not as badly wound
ed as you are, by the passage OF q
bill that will save the people of the
State half a million dollars and
give them better books-and even
exchange if the publishers of the
books "most largely used in the
StatoS,' refuse to contract.
Beautiful spectacles, you seem to
dislike Speaker Edwards, and Dele
gate Smith of Ohio county Well
they are honest men, aud therefore
are opposed to the American Book
Company. To whom or what are
you opposed?
Finally, o thou Kings jester,
thou reachest this sublime height OF
radiant fun:
"If the publishers will not con
contract the very situation has been
produced which the few schemers
sought to bring about while pre-
tending to be engaged in noble
effort to get at much lower price
the books now in use. To this pro
iect some agile minds devoted
themselves during the whole of the
session. Their course through the
forty five days created scandal, and
the partial attainment OF their object
is likely to result in cofusion and
dissatisfaction through the State
As the matter develops the people
will understand it better"
What was 1t, the House of Dele
gates called you2 You know the