The weekly intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1891-1901, 1896-02-22
HIGGINsvILLE's MOUTHPIECE.

l AOLhOfihS lu0 OOuuIy SectJ ho'O oP
peared in the INTELLIGENCER. They
we're recorded as they fell from Lii:
lips, by a competent st~enographer.
He declares that lawyers are inferior
in worth to dead skunks! Is Brother
Keyton, of Higginsville, a lawyer?
Mr.. Walker lifts his voice in con-
demnation of newspaper edi;orsi Are
Brothers K~leinschmidt, Kapp and
Schwartz, OF Higginsyille, newspaper
editors?
lie brands with the stigma of dis
honesty, the merchant Is Brother
James Harrison, of Higginsville, a
merchant?
In all well regulated farces, there
needs must be a clown, and the removal
farce is not an exception to the general
rule. The jester was a person formerly
retained by princes TO make sport for
them.
..He rambIed up and down with shallow
testers"
And, n Ia mode, when Mr.. Walker,
the colossal Drained epithetical logician
from ~Higginsvile, drew his broadsword
of vltuperation, and, like Armadis di
Gaul, or Don Bombastus Furioso, with
one great back stroke, cleft asunder
three fierce and monstrous giants
LAWYERS, merchants and editors-albeit,
Keyton, Harrison, and the members of
the press from H~iggInsville fell in the
general slaughter-they lifted a shout
of affected admiration, which rever-
berated across the valleys af Davis,
and shook the roof of the world.
We know these worthy gentlemen
are willing and urgent that the people
of Lafayette sacrifice 500, 900 worth
of property for their mere verbal prom
Use of 800, 900; but the s~elf-sacrifce
shown in their united and mutual
admiration of the epithets hurled upon
their respective vocations by their
gigantic wit-endowed orator, fell upon
us with benumbing effect.
Mr.. Walker doubtless spoke from
the memory of bitter, yet instructive
experience. Doubtless he had gathered
that experience and his opinions of
lawyers, merchants and editors from
his associations in Higginsville. Before
expressing an opinion as to the charac-
he should look fnrther than the con-
fines of his village.
In forming opinions we are all too
prone to Judge the world at large by
the impressions of immediate surround
ings, and to measure the character of
others by the standard of self.
To avoid falling into this great
error, Mr.. Walker should travel. Even
in his own county towns he may gather
material for the formation of just and
sound opinions. For instance, he
might find worthy and intelligent rep
resentatives of the press in WAFerB
Odessa, weuington and cobcetajari
who do not. rssrnAn
AND HnAisss FAVE GALL, I1fs1
xsD Bixss."
He might find lawyers in some of
those towns, who upon a more intimate
n~equantance would elevate the gauge
of his appreciation of the members of
that profession above the level of the
value of a dead skunk's hide; and we
are sure that in Mayview, Corder,
Alma, Waverly, Dover, Odessa, Vel
Page City, Bates City, Napo-
Icon, Waterloo, Chapel Hill, Aullville
and Greenton, he will find at least one I
merchant who does not s'vEND
ROTTEN EGGS, Shrinking BUTTER AND
CALICO" G
Do not be too much influenced in g
Vour opinions by your immediate asso- .
,Iates and surroundings, Mr.. Walker. q
There are some worthy lawyers, mer- !.
ihants and editors, even in your own r
Do not be in such great haste
o thank God that you are not a law b
or merchant, or an editor, or even 7
candidate for Office. We are pre-
to say that our candidates and
Ulcers compare favorsbly with other a
and that besides their profits, u
ur officers DO have a little honor left, N
Notwithstanding you differ with us as a
} the honor. %
If you swing your tomahawk of c.
condemnation with such
scklessness, you may strike down
,me of your friends. :,
Have more charity, Mr.. Walker. sc
emember the maxim, ''EVil be to him
'ho evil Thinks and seek after that st
over the "Giftie gle us, to see our i"
Elves as others see us. II wad fra =.
ANY an error free us, and foolish fr
th
To Illustrate: But the other day a liz
'rmer friend of the removal craze ev
I'D: ''If there were no other reason ne
1 earth for voting against the removal, tn
le harangue of MIR. Walker at Con- til
'rdia would insure my hearty oPPo- oil
But, after all, suppose we admit at vi