The morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1899-1930, 1905-03-30
MEDDLESoME PEOPLE.

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Newspapers, as rule. are not ex-
empt from the Vaccinations OF med
dlesome and garrulous people. They
ply their vocation upon the increiu-
lous and innocent, not for the purpose
of benetitting them, but TO make trou-
bic for someone else They interfere
with family matters, with business and
in the social life, their chief object
being to do some one an injury, or
receive their support in get even
policy over some immaginary griev-
ance. They are only happy in seeing
other people miserable. They delight
in peddling scandal and gossip about
their neighbors and their superiors.
They chew scandal morsel the same as
a COW does her cud, but instead of
swallowing it they emit it forth in the
ears of those who oftentimes detest it,
They are stirers up of strife, breed
ers of discomfort and emmissaries of
scandal, both public and private, and
have great imaginative powers. When
they are denounced by the press or the
pulpit, they imagine it refers to their
neighbors. They have not sufficient
mental capacity to comprehend states
ment, but misconstrue 1t to suit their
debased and depraved minds in order
that it may be used as a weapon to
are out robbing hen roosts. they are
demonstrating with their neighbors
upon the the lack of paternal author
ity over their offsprings. They can
plainly descern the mote in their
brothers eye, without considering their
own eyes are blinded TO their own
faults. 0ftentimes they have no in
tention of doing wrong or creating dis
cord. but Ii is due to ignorance on their
part. They are indignant If their
neighbors even hint at their short.
comings, but are ever ready to take up
the cudgel of gossip against them
when opportunity offers.
What Oregon. and in fact. every
other state in the union needs, is an
asylum for chronic scandal and gossip
peddlers. A place where they can work
their tongues to their hearts content
without curbing and where their ne
farious practices can only be infiict-
ed on their kind. +
This does not only apply to women
but men as we'll. Instead of being
called scandal mongers they are called J.
knockers They lose no opportunity
to knock anybody that is engaged in
business, or is an aspirant for some
elective or appointive political posi- !
tion. No matter how honest and up
right a prominent citizen may have >
been in his business and social rela-
tions in the community, there are al
ways to be found the knocker who will u
formulate some kind of charges and
send them to Washington or some 9TH >
er place Of appointive power, protest.
ing against the appointment of the per-
son to a position of political prefer
ment. They are a class of people that
do not possess the qualifications for y
dog catcher, and it is evidently Jealousy
on their part, or a chronic desire to
knock somebody or someone else, who j
they imagine are receiving some bene-
fit that is not conferred upon them
selves.
They knock every improvement or
the acquisition Of capital or the install
ation Of some industry fearing some
one will reap some benefit out Of some 0
project, which they have not the abil- c
ity or conception to promulgate. They u
can't bear to see other people pros
porous or forge ahead, and in order
10 keep everyone else down upon the i
same strata with themselves, they at !
tempt to injure these inovatlons by
system Of chronic knocking. Accord
ing to their warped and depraveI ideas v
no one has any right in Astoria or h
even on this earth, who do not recog-
nize them as the par-excellence Of all
things human and divine (
It were useless to call them down, or f
publish facts that apply directly to r
hem, as they never take anything Of
hat kind upon themselves, but are up
bright and early to start on their II
'ounds, infiicting other people with I
heir presence in an endeavor to con-
vince them that the statement made
IT the article published refers to them. ly
rhey are what are termed barnacles s
m the body polite, a sort Of an itch b