Graham guardian., 1898-08-19
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her tongue with: II told you so;"
and this time it is the smolter.
"Rumor has it that it, like cor
poration, the home guard, creamery
and other things intended to bene.
fit the town, has gone glimmering.
We hope it is not true, but we have
heard 1T reported, and have even
been told by one in position to
know, that the smelter will not be
built, In vague way we have
been led to believe that the mine
has been abandoned; that the store
is to be put into the hands of a
manager, and so on through the
category of possibilities.
"Ail of which is to be regretted
if true; if not true, the sooner the
facts of the case are made known
the better for all concerned"
As rebuke for publishing such
rot, when it had no foundation,
the GUARDIAN, on August 9th, pub.
lished the following:
"Why a paper will deliberately
try to crush out an industry by
publishing a lot of fool rumors,
without any reliable facts at hand,
as the Trailer did last week in re.
gard to the smelter is beyond com
prehension. But as very few paid
any attention to what it said we
suppose it does not amount to
much"
AS reply to the above para
graph from the GUARDIAN, the
Trailer, on Aug. l1th, published the
following editorial:
"The above clipping refers, most
likely to an editorial in recent is
sue of The Arizonidn, and we're very
much surprised that a man of Mr..
Birdno's assumed intelligence and
pretended local pride should, just
for the sake of a measley little ad
in his paper, take the part of a
class of people inimical to every
town, county and territorial inter.
est.
When Julius Caesar invaded
Brittany, and took with him a
civilization representing the ex,
treme advancement of the age in
which he lived, the one great diff;
ficulty he had to over come was to
convince the inhabitants of the
islands that his style was an i'm
provement on that already in vogue
among the people. The Arizoniqn
has had the self same trouble. The
rag down the street is buried in its
own conceit and so callowsed to
the criticisms of the more intelll.
gent portion of the people Gnclud
ing the Arizonian) that 1T cannot
appreciate the fact that the world
has moved since it came into ex,
istence, and so 1t goes along in the
same old rut and wonders at It's
waning powers.
ave are prefectly willing to ad,
NIT that the article in question was
rough, but, as we stated at the
time severe diseases require severe
remedies; and when people come in
community to swindleIand rob the
people we, as the guardian of the
best interests of Stafford, are going
to enter a protest.
John, yon are sincere in moth
ing, and if you advocate thing
even under the guise of public bene-
fits there must needs be the al.
mighty dollar in sight. But hon
est, John, we were surprised to see
you come out and support the hash
and wash houses and call them an
"industry." This is too much, too
utterly too much"
Why the refined, polished, truth,
ful and honest editor of the Trailer
refers to the men who expect to
build a smelter here and who have
spent thousands of dollars in do
veioping the mines in the Lone
Star district and who are still
spending their money there as a
class of people inimical to every
town, county and territorial inter
est is entirely beyond US. Why he
calls them q disease in the COM
munity and charges them with
swindling and robbing the people,
we do not understand. He even
goes further and accuses them of
running wash and hash houses.
Had that paper any influence it
would not take long to run all
legitimate business from Stafford.
AS 1T is all respectable people are
thoroughly disgusted with this
unwarranted and false attack on
these gentlemen.
1t is true Qualey Bros. run an ad
in the GUARDIAN, but this paper
bad g. eat deal more to say con-
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