Amador ledger., 1902-01-17
A SAVORY RECORD.

The Webb gave good advice in last
weeks issue of his Ledger, when he
advised people to trade at home.
How well he has followed his own
advice is known to all citizens.
Wherever he has been able to save a
cent by purchasing elsewhere, he
has let home trades1nen severely
alone. Don't do as l do, but as [
tell you to do" should have been in
corporated in the Webb article
Dispatch.
1t is not the policy of the Ledger
to resort to offensive personalities,
after the pattern of the above. We
have lived long enough to know that
it is useless to try to answer an un-
scrupulous liar. His field of enter
prise is boundless, and his conscience
interposes no barrier to the gratifi-
cation of his malicious spirit. We
reproduce the above sample of his
rawlings to show our supreme con-
tempt for the opinion of critters of
his ilk. 1t is mirror in which the
community may see reflected the true
image of his own little self. IF it
pleases him to publish such stuff for
the qualification of his readers, it
affords us equal pleasure to tickle
his depraved nature still further by
extending the article to the still
larger circle of the Ledger readers.
But who is this that presumes to sit
in judgment upon the private affairs
of his betters? Is he not a refugee
from the valleys, driven by short
ness of fodder and stress of circum-
stances to seek shelter with his
brethren in the mountains? He
sought to be leader among the
faithful of his political tribe, and
managed to get himself elected as
the chief sachem thereof, and was
thereafter dropped like a hot stove.
He was vain enough to imagine that
he was the idol of the dear people,
and as feeler invited himself to a
seat at the school board, and was
literally buried by unfriendly votes
He is supposed to be running a dem
ocratic sheet, but the only good
sense he has ever displayed was in
selecting his ideal candidate from
the republican ranks. We're it not
for his periodical pilgrimages to the
countys strong box in shape of po-
litical patronage, he would have
famished for lack of grass. He feels
the need of an auxiliary safe, and
advised his townsfolks to set UP a
city government. This would pro-
vide another valuable source of pap
from his standpoint, but the voters
detected the bug and jumped on the
scheme with both feet. His favorite
pastime since his advent in Amador
has been to borrow money from who
ever would loan. He tried his
scheme on the writer, but it failed to
work, and this failure to respond to
his monetary disability is no doubt
the secret of his wrath This may
be the true key to his career as a
journalist, to proceed to abuse those
who refuse to pungle up at his bid
ding. To impart interest to his
mediocre sheet he invited corre-
spondence on local topics, and pour
ed out the walls of personal abuse on
the first one that foolishly availed
himself of the offer, under the i'm
preston that it vas made in good
faith. That is the way he prosti-
tutes noble calling. He has been
talking against the town of Jackson
ever since he set foot within its
limits, always predicting evils lurk-
ing in The future-evils that have
never materialized and are never like
ly to materialize-and the evilmon-
ger continues without any strings
attached to him-to make the imagi-
nary plague spot his abiding city.
He does business largely without
cash, and his creditors have to
''make even" by trading the amount
in advertising; and he thereupon
boasts of this discreditable fact, and
falsely attributes it to the superior
quality of his journalistic wares.
He chronicles that John Doe from
Slabtown, and Richard Roe from
Jackson Gate, visited Jackson on
business" and insults the intelli-
gence of Amador county by intimat-
ing through standing notice in his
columns that this sort of drivel is
the mainstay of county paper. He
can find something to|commend in
every town in Amador county, ex-
cept the one wherein he has cast his
lot. Like most financial failures,
he prates about how other people
ought to invest their means in the