Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1899-01-05
MOORHEAD.
Near ED1r0R SHEAF:
January I, 1851.

In the last weeks issue OF your
valuable paper you favored me with
space for my communication and
thus encouraged, come again and
ask you to do the same.
Yourself and the readers of the
"SHEAF" will perhaps remember
that l spoke about our vacation
and SO on. Now since this time il
soon over n Jew more fittings OF the
mimi in the shape of thoughts came
to me which would like to commu-
nicate with you.
Ii you are reader of the St. Paul
Globe, you i'll all probability have
followed with more or less interes,
the sensational charges made by
said paper not only against the
State Normal School Board but
even against the presidents of these
worthy institutions, notably
against Dr.. Irwin Shepard, the presi-
dent of the Winonn Normal School.
Il man whose sterling qunlities the
whole country recognizes in most
1hattering manner, in that he has
Deen promoted to the secretaryship
OF the National Educn tional Assoc-
alton. OF course any person WHO
stops to think will at once recOg-
nize the fact that this is Il cheap and
base resort to acquire notoriety,
the charges being more imaginary
than real. For instance, they have
charged that the Normal Board
|hoId "Star Chamber Sessions" ]is-
regarding and violating the rights
of the public, and again did they
make the groundless and wicked
charge that politics was the cause
of Prof. Freemnn's removal from
his position ut this school-a to
tally nisrepresented fact when in
reality, as the late investigation
proves, his defect from a literary
standpoint, his disloyalty to the nd
ADMINISTRATION together with other
minor causes compelled the author
tries to dispense with his services.
As All example of the absurd aud
ridiculous statements made by the
Globe the following will serve well.
The board had convened to elect Il
successor to DR.. Shepherd as they
also did. The reporter of the Globe
failed to he present while the report
er OF he Pioneer / re.ss was, being
punctual rs that paper always is
anyway. The result OF this meeting
was published in the latter paper
Immediately while it did not appear
in the GlOl'e, ~Ol course. Two days
later the Globe management dis
covered this iact and ut once in
glaring headlines said: "Another
secret has leaked out" l wish you
all would catch the effect of this
statement. Some one who takes
the "SHEAF' and failed to receive it
until Saturday b, cause he did not
80 TO get it until then, might just
as well have exclaimed to himself:
''Another Ut cret has leaked OUT
OF course every man who does not
entertain he same reverentinl feel
ing towards whatever is printed in
an everyday newspaper will come
to the conclusion that all this is
lnerely bric-a-brac, when he exam
ines these statements in the light of
truth AMI with Il candid spirit.
And so some one may ask: "Then
why all tllis::" To give an ansn er
is not difficult but to give a proper
answer is more difficult.
But first as President Lord suil,
"A wrong impression caused by the
misrepresentation Of fucts is ilnpof-
sible to follow up and entirely er:ldi-
cate" But each one in His place
eau cOunteract tile evil results ut
such evil see,ls. And 80 it is that
we all who are not only interested
In the laws of the land, the freedom
and the protection it tsccords each
and every individual who happens
to be ut all connected with our fair
land. but also more or less interest
ed in our Educational System upon