The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1900-09-14
Not Thankfully Received.

Tell child to stop beating his smaller
brother and does he thank you? When one
stops to think about it it is not so very un-
common to see child kick, scratch, bite,
and fairly rave at the older person who
cautions 1t not to play with fire, or advises
it not to destroy Its playthings or throw
away and break its cup and saucer. And
Oftentimes those who are acquainted with
children notice that the more clear the
sense which the child has OF the wrong
which 1t has been doing, the more vigorous
is Its resentment of the proffered advice
and the more violent 1t becomes in It's per-
sODal attack on the one who has dared to
puncture Its self-c0nceit by presuming to
call attention to the un-wisdom of its course.
Ii 1t feels very guilty indeed 1t is quite
likely, with screams of rage, and nearly
blinded by the tears pouring out of its eyes,
to throw stones, or mud, or anything it
can clutch, at the person who offered it the
timely and needed suggestions, while if the
case is even more aggravated, the young
ster takes days to get over the attack and
calls names and throws dirt at every chance
1t gets. The trait has been receiving con-
spicuous illustrations all this week in the
columns of one of the younger city papers.
Last week, without mentioning so much
as the name of the paper In question,
The TINES took occasion to call to
the attention of the editor of a recent,
sef-prOfessed addition to the ranks of re-
publican papers in this county and state,
that, while some of its acts might have
seemed permissible in Its former capacity
as an independent paper, with the right
which it then assumed, to sell advertising
space" to any candidate, they were any
thing but wise or fair to its party or to the
party candidates when published IN pro-
fessedly repub lean journal In the form In
which they we're given. So far as any per-
sonal feeling was concerned it did not enter
into the article in question and there are
those who know that-as even the local paper
which was criticised could see the need Of
one Of the state papers was sharply criti-
cised for the article published by 1t IN its
Saturday edition relative to the political
situation in this congressional district
and that too before the paper In question
called attention to 1t in an attempt to justify
It's own course-and also from other sources
than those from which the criticisms of Its
course came. THE TIMES still insists that
a republican candidate does have the right
to expect that his interests will be guarded
by republican editors against misleading
and malicious twists and turns given even
to news items, and 1t does not hesitate to
say so, or to exercise its right of criticising
another republican paper IL 1t believes the
other is lax in such duty. Such a course
does not imply the slightest tampering with
the accuracy of the news given but rather
protects its party candidates from un friendly
tampering, or even unintentional unfair
ness on the part of its new gatherers. IL
believes that It is still possible to be per-
fectly fair to political opponents while jeal-
Dusty watching out for the interests of ones
own party candidates.
But that set ms to be where one trouble
with the paper referred TO arises. Ii ap-
parently distrusts its own motives and
thereupon tries to fling distrust upon those
OF all others. IL seems to have-like the
boy who thinks he must be tough to be
manly-ihe idea that to be an out aud out
republican paper. " must be unfair to its
political orpoLeDis NJ q have absolutely no
mind OF liz own; that 1t must stoop 10 everv
s,rt OF trickery and be utterly base and
desp'csble. Else why should 1t exclaim,
"Wnn we're as old in sin as JHE TIMEs?,
The paper which can see M hing but "s,n"
In being a stauDch, tut and out party paper
had best be- something Else Tor Its own sake.
Il j. degrading itself In Its own eyes every
day 1t continues such course. THE TIMES
does not believe that II Is Elm to be, all
the year round, rs earnestly republican as
constant effort and good intentions can