Little Falls weekly transcript. (Little Falls, Morrison Co., Minn.) 1894-19??, 1896-05-08

about. They cant find out by
Mahan's communications to the
Transcript. 1t don'tspurport to be
written at any time or place, nor
does It quote any language con.
tained in that message that to him
is SO terrible obnoxious. His TRADE
is directed against the message as
an entirety. Still have reason to
believe that the red rag that causes
Ed. tt, below so vOciterOusly, and
empty himself il contained In the
following words that occur In my
message: .'Such parties can well be
spared from a community, and
would suggest to them that they
emigrate, and go down to Fitzgerald,
in the state OF Georgia, where the
experiment of trying to build a city
with old soldiers and wind ia being
tried /. \. ss..
Now these words are perfectly
harmless and inOffensive, hut If they
gave Ed. Mahan the night mare, anc
make it Impossible for some Of our
old soldiers to rest they, had hest be
stricken out, ns they serve no great
purpose in the message. had been
describing a certain class of citizens
that are found in all cities, which
are a detriment to any community
in which they reside, 80 l made the
suggestion as stated. But the real
object had in view was to dis
courage old soldiers and worthy
citizens from leaving Little Falls
and going to that place with the
hope Of lettering their condition, as
1 believe the whole move to he a
scheme gotten up to swindle the
the common people in general, and
old soldiers especially, by calling it
the "Old Soldiers Colony" under
stand the Grand Army of the Re-
public Investigated the scheme when
it first started and pronounced 1T a
swindle. and warned every Grand
army post in the country against
taking stock in it. Some thought
that I meant to convey the idea that
they were using such old soldiers as
Milo Porter to supply them with the
desired amount OF wind at Fitz-
gerald. In this they were mistaken.
I hear. however, that Milo is there in
his glory. and doing good. business
in his old professions; that he is sur
rounded every day by eager listeners
to his fairy tales about Ills bear
hunting in the North. The old
soldiers can furnish hut small part
of the wind used to boom that fic-
titlous wild cat town. Those. who
are booming it understand their
business. They are publishing a
large paper with an elaborate map
OF the proposed city, which is sent
broadcast all over the United States.
That boomerang paper furnishes the
wind, and not the old soldiers.
Now. Ed, I fear l am imposing
upon the generosity of the editor, SO
l feel it my duty to close. but before
1 close, I wish to call attention to
your closing remarks which read
thus: "We would not have noticed
or answered this message only a
large number of our old soldier
friends requested us to do SO, which
we have consented to do" You
doubtless have heard how Adam
| tried to throw the responsibility of
transgressing his Masters command
upon his poor innocent wife. Eve,
! but his attempt awaited him nothing,
so your attempt to shift the respon-
sibility of writing that disgraceful
| article on the old soldiers by saying
you would not have done it if they
had not asked you to will avail you
nothing: ..esE... ...... -.s
| 1t is an old and true saying that q
guilty conscience needs no accuser.
| When a person does a disrepurabl BILE
act when accused generally tries to
dodge the responsibility by laying
the blame upon some one else. but
Ed, in this matter, knowing that he
was doing an act for which he
would be justly censured, stamps the
impress of a guilty conscience upon
his own act by including in it a
statement that he did at the re-
quest of other parties without even
Identifying them only in a vague
way in remarking that many old
soldiers asked him to answer this
message. I am aware, Ed, thatyou
are quite a slippery fellow, and have
got out of some tight places, but
in this matter you may make up a
wry face, but you will have to take
your medicine. ~
In setting yourself up as the GUS
todian Of the brains OF the old SOL
diers of Morrison county you
demonstrate the fact that you are