The Brunswick times. [volume] (Brunswick, Ga.) 188?-1900, 1897-03-28
A NEW PHlLANTHRoPlST.

| AT the meeting OF Lne Guy COUNCIL on
Thursday night, communication was
received from I'll. A. Wrench & Sons,
proprietOrs of the Evening Advertiser,
in which they offer to give publicity to
the marshal's sales at a reduced rate.
The object of this cut-rate proposition
is announced to be the saving of money
to the taxpayers in advertising costs.
The Advertisers discovery that the
taxpayers are In need of relief In this
matter is very sudden-so sudden as to
cause shock of surprise to those who
have observed the course of Ifs prOpri-
etors in the past.
There is a wise old saying that as
crlbes to consistency the attributes of
a jewel. 1t applies as fifty to the pro-
sale Advertising ledger of a newspaper
as to higher and nobler things.
THE TIMES takes this opportunity of
going back brief space into munich
pal history, that the public may prop
erly consider this unexpected burst of
benevoIence on the part of the Adver-
tiser.
In the year 1898 the Times Adyer-
tiser, of which Mr.. II. A. Wrench was
manager and H. A. Wrench & Sons the
sole beneficiaries, was-as some taxpay-
ers of that year are still painfully
aware the official organ of the city of
Brunswick. It was necessary, owing
to the prevalence of yellow fever on
the day of the sale, to readvertise the
unreturned property sales, thus doub-
ling the costs TO those who were unfOr-
tunate enough to have their property
levied on. Yet neither THE TIMES nor
the public has heard of one single in
stance where these klnd-heartedspub-
fishers relinquished one cent of their
two-fold fee. The pound of flesh was
demanded and received.
And this was at time when our peo-
pie labored under the worst Affections
that were ever wreaked upon u COM
munty, their very food and raiment
coming as gifts from outside charity.
Where then was the warm and pull
sing sympathy that now gathers so
closely to its tender heart the suffer
ings of this oppressed, cost burdened
people?
Go further. In the next year, there
was also financial strlngency, the tax
payers hampered by the results of
the epidemic and burdened with the
necessity of making sewerage coDnec-
tions. From the sauctum of the Off
cial organ there still came no offer of
charity, and the delinquent taxpayer
hoped for relief IN vain.
But now, what sudden reversal of
feeling. What mighty motive has
prompted the publishers of the Adver-
tiser to soften the iron heart and with
draw the grasping hand?
Perhaps the public can answer. Per-
haps the recent change of the city
printing from the Advertiser to THE
TIMES is partly responsible for this
discovery of a new benefactor to tax
paying humankind. 1t may be an an
aiogous case t0 that of the small boy,
who, having lost large hunk of cake,
walls piteously for crumb.
But The TIMES cannot refrain from
suggesting that the Advertiser, having
now in course of publication solid
page of tax advertisements, could re-
tain some little credit for consistency
by enlarging its offer of cut-rates so
as to include those cost burdened
property owners who are new being
entered on its books for the maximum
fees allowed by the law.
The Advertisers great scheme of
charity, however, is very conveniently
prearrapged to date only from the