The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1897-01-02
THE KIMBALL GRAPHIC
CLATE r. TINAN.

THE klMBALL GRAPHIC
cLATE R. T1NAN.
Official Paper Of the City and County
THE PASSING OF TRoTh,
Bijou Hills, S. d., Dec. 90, 1885,
MIR. C. r. TlNAN, Kiu,ball.
DEAR SIR:-Enclosed YOU will find P.
NJ. O for 81 cents to pay for the GRAPHIC
to January lst 1897 sent you statement
by Card showing have paid for Tho
GRAPHIC for nine years from October lst
1887 TO October 1st 1896. in parting with
The GRAPHIC wish to say that | con-
sider its local pages the best in the State
prefer editorials ON state and national
Issues, that are less MercenarY aud more
patriotic than yours. but not for this do
stop the paper. stop it because you
have not willingly ablded the Contract
you made with me for produce of differ
ent kinds After | took the same 90
miles to your door, You grumbled and
complained. Twill not gay you money.
You have done your utmost in years gone
by to slaughter the financial interests of
farmers & workingmen to build up
towns and Banking Monopolis. MY pro-
duce goes to a market shOrn Of Money
and in open Competition with vast qaan-
J titles Of like property. Put the GRAPHIC
on the glutted Market. that rests on a
little gold basis Il its Market price will
| go below fifty cents. will not give YOU
deprecated Corn at Market price and
pay you an arbitry trust uphill price
for even the best OF papers. therefore
/ order The GRAPHIC to my address
stopped. Respectfully,
A. !. TRoTH.
| Doesn't that knock your hat Off And
isn't it blood curdling epistle from a
Royal Pop9 This man 'rroth has forgot
ten how the editor of the GRAPHIC
stumped this part Of the county two
years ago to the end that lie (Troth)
might represent or misrepresent- this
county in the state legislature. God
forgive US for 1t,
| This rantanker0us individual in the
shallow of the Hills isn't so much
| grleved at what the GRAPHIC has said
editorially as in what it has failed 10
say. He is not satisfied that it should
lay aside its convictions of life time
BY bowling to the will of Democratic
majority, with its populistic Chicago
platform, and give Its party a loyal sup
port, Tut it must swallow all the social
istic creeds of Troth and his coagita-
/ tors and kiss the foot Of populism. Well
see him n--Kalamazoo first.
He says, however. that he would con-
tinue to put up with the GRAPHIc-dis-
pite its shortc0mlngs-as he sees them
1 if we would live on rnta bagas and other
COW feed. This man agreed to furnish
us fresh vegetables in payment for the
GRAPHIC. He made practice of dispos.
ing of everything fit to eat before ever
coming near us and then trying to
palm off lot of carrots, squash. mangel
wurtzels or other truck he couldn't give
away-and at two prices at that. When
it came to getting any potatoes or any
thing we could use it was out OF the
question. During the years of 1928
and it was impossible to get even a
turnip out OF HIM. This fall lie promised
to bring us some corn. for which we
agreed to allow him the market price
Before he got around to it corn dropped
to Is cents, but he insisted that we
should give him 25. He claimed to have
20 bushels on his wagon; that he meas.
ured it himself. We knew better He
| finally agreed to call it 16 bushels, but
| stuck for the 25 cents bushel. We
knew it was that or nothing, so we tooa
it and allowed him $4.O0. Ten days
days afterward Jas. Byrne took the corr
out Of the bin and weighed it, all but
two bushels. There was $40 pounds -ol
little over nine bushels all told, al
lowing 20 pounds to the buslel-abon
$1.35 cents worth at the market price
This is the way he was paying his sup
scription. He couldn't have had thu
GRAPHIC after Jan. at any price. W,
have no use FOR such men on our list
1t is fact that the Sl.35 worth Of corr
rcr which we allowed him S4.OO wa
worth more to us than the $3.50 il
vegetables" that he has us charged w
with. He is pretty specimen to write
letters to newspapers. He is a goot
sample Of certain element of reformers
A man that can pay his debts-when h
pays them at all-at twenty-five cent
on the dollar ought to be willing to lie
well enough alone.
The GRAPHIC-in common with nine
tenths Of the Democratic newspapers Q
;. the land-has been fighting monopol,
all its lifs-fphtlng it when this ma
Troth, as a rcd-hot Republican, wa
sowing the seeds OF the meshes Of whic
he complains. 1t comes with bad grac
his screed-from men of his ilk an
and calibre. The bed he is lying in
Of his own making. not ours or any q
) our kind
g This down-tro,lden pop has been tai
ing the GRAPHIC now for over nine year
TO the amount OF something like 81
Every pound Of paper and every day
work that has been put upon these Al
! copies has been paid for in good hal
cash, paid into this office by honest mel
This is the first time we have ever see
the color Of this particular individual
money. We don't want It, We don
want to break the record. We have b.
come go accustomed to being beet b
HMM more ways than one-that '
are used to it. So we return him his
cents today-thankful to be well rid
him. Others will look cut for 4
GRAPHlc'1 exchequer-pIenty of thel
There are Populists in Brule county wi
are square, honest, white men-who
1t is pleasure to know and to whom I
GRiPHIC is ever willing to acco
honesty of purpose and mo
than an average degree Of intel
geace, and with whom, in turn, Il
GRAPHIC is recognized as fearIe