The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1902-02-27


Facts" He proceeded to write quite
lengthy column and then in closing
his would-be facts" he says: ''If |
am wrong | hope to be corrected >
Did you not, Mr.. Teacher?
replied to your would-be facts
in the issue of Jan. 16, correcting
your gross untruths as you had re-
quested some one to do.
Now after more than a month has
elapsed since my reply correcting his
would-be facts" Mr.. Teacher, per-
haps thinking that during the period
OF month or six weeks the public
would forget the untruths that he
had told.
Now, Mr.. Teacher, if you wanted
to reply and say told untruths why
didn't you correct my errors and sub
stantiate your facts?
Did you not start out by saving
you attended normal ten weeks, paid
So tuition? You said you did and not
the average teacher. You knew that
to be an untruth when you penned
it. You can't deny it, but come
around and say now you canvassed
books ten days. He didn't say how
many days he stayed at home and
tinkered around on his farm. Then
says he paid IS tuition, which is like
the rest he acknowledges to be false.
yet in his first issue they were facts.
How about your salary, Mr.. Teach
err? You told the public in your first
issue you were getting only $25 a
month. You say now that you are
getting $50 per month
Yes, Mr.. Teacher, you thought you
would draw pitiful picture for the
taxpayers to gaze at, didn't you?
Why didn't you say you were get
ting $50 instead of $25 and call it a
fact ?
Oh, yes, Mr.. Teacher looked through
his immense library and found more
books purchased than he had given
in his first issue. You didn't find
that one that you had bought and
used during the normal and term,
then got the person to take it back,
did you? We do not doubt that you
added that small sum to your already
many volumes, for book canvasser
generally has some left on his hands
after he is through making his deliv-
cry and of course can't return them.
He said he paid $40 for board during
normal, SIS board for first term this
winter. | said his board did-not cost
him this for he is boarding at home.
Any farmer with good horse sense
knows that if he were to charge him
self up with $40 and each member of
his family every ten weeks for board,
whether you are at home or canvass
ing books, as Mr.. Teacher did, at the
end of the first year he would have to
sell his farm and all to pay his and
his family's board.
But he still has his conveyance to
and from institute charged on his bill
and accuses me of telling an untruth
when say he paid nothing. | say it
again. Mr. Teacher, you said it first
TO party. Either you told an I'M
truth then or now.
Talk about sizing a man up. You
are monster in stature, Mr.. Teacher,
but not very hard to size up, anyway
on such facts. What are you writing
about? You acknowledge in the clos
ing of your reply that they were I'M
truths and we verify every statement
we made in our reply of Jan. 16, and
you can't deny, but simply bow down
and say that your facts were untruths.
Better call them, in plain English.
lies.
Think of it, readers A teacher,
one who is looked upon to set an ex-
ample, we let you judge what occu-
patton or profession suits him best
after reading his would-be facts of
Jan. 2, then compare them with his
reply of Feb 20, where he admits that
they are untruths and gets angry be-
cause he is corrected.
Mr.. Teacher asked the question
whether knew the fellow that told
one of the school officers over the wire
that if he had known in the fall that
his wages would be what they are he
would not have opened school. What
does tina. have to do in correcting
your pack of untruths you told, then
admitted that that they were not
true? You don't know, do you, Mr..
Teacher? Simply want to sling a
slur or two at some one else. But,
Mr.. Teacher, we know that fellow: we
are personally acquainted with him.
He is the fellow that you went around
last fall saying that he had no first
grade certificate and couldn't get any:
that you had talked with one of the
high officials of the school board and
he gave you that statement, and at
the same time that fellow, as YOU
called him, was holding a State GER
tificate and getting more money than