Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1904-08-31
AN ANGRY ALBANIAN.

Montgomery, Alabama, Times, who
ID preaching the pusiilanamols
doctrine. Tint because Governor
felix's has broken his health In
the service Of Ills state. that therefore
his salnfy should be cut OF, The Or
tic Ii very glad 10 learn that such
high principied papers as tho Hirmlng.
ham A~ge.iIerald, the Birmingham
News. the Selma Times, arc heartily
opposed 10 any such measures rs the
Montgomery paper advocates II II
not necessary % assure these respect.
able publications Tint We are not as
the Montgomery man terms us south
hating.' WE Or sunny New Mexico
ure of tha southland ourselves, and
VA love the noble character. the digni.
fled courtesy and The warm heart 30
typical of beautiful Alabama.
Tile Montgomery paper mtimates
that the question at Issue III none Of
our business. II the Issue Iii III
enough Importance 10 justify Il Mont.
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES man and who shall
aay III III mol 81 the staff of the Times
In sending i dispatch "a this paper.
II II III enough Importance 10 Justify
q ii creating The matter eaitorIally.
Furthermore the man WHO advocates
such 4 policy as the Times has cham
pianed ought q b. held up. not only
% the nblaany of lis II people hut
also iii The people af tile whole land.
V lhing Hill The Times Wishes
~ hage done. has never been done.
md anrely never ean III dome III the
United States.
The Times renly q Tho Optic NIL
toriaI On the subject Ii aftoseiher
quite the most unique hi If neWapa
per writing Tint haa come ID the
wild and woody West.' d. this soc.
tien Ii originally termed, for 4 long
time Not 70 speak Of the Illiteraey,
the had spelling, THE reckless cleavage
Of the long suffering infinitlye, the
more positive errors hi rhetorical j il
atrnetion, the article Ii the most de.
lightful example pf inconsistency and
RESPONSIVENESS We have beheld since
the .Bazoo' of Squodnnk suspended
for lack of means To buy d dictionary,
After protesting the impoasibiiity of
sacrificing enough of his southern
pride 10 descend 10 billingsgate he
makes uac Of such mild and endearing
cpithets az "a~asinity' (observe the
exclusive Ideas Of the Montgomery
man On the subject on speliingl.
.blackgnard.s .coarse.natured." etc.
The Alabama editor wanders like d
man In q labyrinth. II Is impossible
% follow him Into the mazes Of his
RESPONSIVENESS. There is just this dif.
ference however, between the Cpl.
theis used BY The Optic and those
handed out BY the Alabaman. When
We termed the then unknown editor
pnsiilanamons, We meant II. Tho
Montgomery man allowed the word 10
pierce the pachydcrmatons exterior
covering 81 his anatomy and he LOST
his temper ana called names oui DC
the abundance II his spleen. We real.
" don't care q entcr Into 4 discussion
with such m exponent of southern
chisalry
Does occur ii our readers that
,he biggest hattie III inc worlds Ills.
tnry II being fought Never be-
fore we're half 4 million men engaged
III hattle AZ ono limo. The arms In
use now arc also much more deadly
than they have cyer heen before, Ill
though The percentage III loss III
the battlo u Lao Yang Will probably
be less than ID many other battles Of
The world. The issues ii tho present
hattle are probably MI momontous Ill
any n history II may hc that mon
The issue q ne struggle depends the
fate 81 half q continent and Tho aaes.
tlan of the supremacy lii Asia 81 the
Mnscnyite oil the Monaghan.
After oil Senator Fairbanks will
skip about The country 4 good doal
during September HI viii mako i
speech In Maine, then rush out ID
Marion. Kansas. then back ID Eimlra
and saratoea, n. y, and 50 on
through New England; Ex-senator
Thurston of Nebraska viii also put
On his sever league boots and do New
Yofk siate