Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1896-02-13
Razors Flxlng in the Air.


tention to be peaceful. law-abiding
citizen, wishing to pay due respect to
one law as we'll as another, especially
that section of the statute which for.
bids a barber to fight, knock down
and carry out an editor. and having
no paper of my own in which to de-
fend myself, beg leave to intrude
upon the space of your valuable col
umns to answer an article which APP
peared in last weeks Teller concern
ing myself. / do not particularly OBJ
iect to the moving incidents portray
ed in the item, and whether they are
exactly true or not is of no great i'm
portance to me; but do emphatically
object to being made the clown of
such a bum circus as that run under
Ed. Pollock's moth-eaten canvas. If
the object of Pollock's filings at me
was merely to produce innocent hum
or for his audience of rag-tags and
bob-tails, | would not honor them
with daub of secondhand lather
much less devote an hour of work to
making objections; but the fact is,
these malicious shafts, cunninglv
oiled at the point, are hurled at me
purposely to hurt my character and
ruin my business because | do not
patronize the Teller Office and viii
not read his weekly mess of sensation
al lies and disgusting whine.
We all have,different ways of doing
things and | take it for granted that
each person is not responsible for his
peculiar manner of working out life's
problems, so that ones movements,
as long as he does not Intentionally
interfere with another persons rights,
should not be held up before the pub
lie in newspaper for general criti-
eism and scorn However my conduct
may be. it is my intention to do unto
others as / would be done by. My
marriage certificate hangs on the wall
and the dates of the births OF all my
children are written in Bible which
lies upon the parlor stand. 1t will be
found upon investigation of the two
that am within the bonds of law and
decency, setting no bad example for
my neighbors growing sons and
daughters. How does your family
record line up in this respect. Ed.
Pollock
Now that you have influence and
plenty of money, if you are honorable
man you pretend to be, why do you
not go to Muscoda and pay what YOU
honestly owe there9 The gentlemen
who kindly bore the monied burden
of your great sin are still living there
and they are not rich. Your dollars
would greatly aid them in their old
age. Why don't you pay them, Ed?
Why don't you pay back that sold
iers' monument money to Grant coun-
typ
Why don'a you paint or tear down
your old house ane barn 50 that Il cir
dirty dilapidated looks will not be al
disgrace to your neighborhood.
Why don't you 90 back to Iowa and
Why don't you pay back to the city
of Lancaster that small pox money YOU
received from the treasury at time
when you had just sold the HERALD
office to Gap Ferg' and Joe Cover
for four or five thousand dollars more
than you paid for it and had plenty
of money in the bank on which you
lived for several years and on which
you afterwards started the Teller9
Or WHY under the circumstances did
YOU consent to take the money of tax
PAYERS, if not to save your own?
Why don't you quit lying about the
thousand and one things you intend
to do-electric lights, etc, and do
that about which you are continually
lying?
Why don { you give other sinners
rest for while and purge your own
dirty self with Griswold spring water
and let Gods sunshine in to Tighten
up your gloomy, sin-sick soul?
A stereotyped comparison of yours
that verybody who disagrees with
YOU reminds you of skunk. loses
force when you study the habits of the
animal. have often met the Great
ure on hunting and trouting expedi-
tions and notice that he attends strict
ly to his own business and molests
nobody when let alone. Are you
aware that you remind every body of
a hyena2 But my hour is up and
at another time / will explain the
comparison Yours for scrap,
A. j. HOWELL.