The Ladysmith news and Ingram news. [volume] (Ladysmith, Wis.) 1905-1906, 1905-12-30
THE OTHER FELLOWS
SAY---And Mine.

II thought those people you have
been exposing were good fellows, until
| read about them in the News" said
a caller at the Office the other day.
Certainly. Why not? This man is a
hard working farmer. He has built a
farm in what once was a wilderness.
He has been making lot of grass blades
grow where none grew before, He has
been engrossed in honest toil-What
should he know of the tricks of the
crooked ones, unless ne read about them
in the News-such matters are publish
ed exclusively in the News, as the gate
keeper told my Birch street friend in
his dream.
and speaking of the work Of crooks, =
the other day | ran upon another item
in the action of half baked lawyer
whose law books are nlortgaged, whose
accounts are in vendue, whose collec-
tions are delinquent, whose spelling is
awful, whose etymology is wretched,
whose syntax is a continuous attack
upon ltIS 4JIlS IlOli ASlIISA0"So "AiOSN
vocabulary includes ''yous' and ere
crooperation" and 'neral-i-gie' and
cause-ual," whose diction is a cross
between Hottentot and chocktaw and
whose breath is characterized by the
odor of bad whisky. 1t was no less than
a collection made months ago and not
turned in.
Yes, what should the honest farmer
know of these things if they are not
printed in the newspapers-what is
newspaper for if not to give the public
an understanding of things that prevail?
Is the legal profession to be placed un-
der a scare head-as the printers say, -
because, say, twenty-five per cent, or
two in eight, do these things?
On the same day of the above call,
another reader of the News living near
Bruce-the first one came from the
eastward called and said that when
he first read about those two sharks
dividing the money they received for
the power franchise and putting it in
their pockets, he didn't believe it. Re-
Election convinced him that it must be
so or the News wouldn't dare publish it.
He examined the other papers and
found that it was published exclusively
in the Ladysmith News. Reflection re-
called to him another fact-that his
subscription wasn't paid, and that was
why he called.
''How is it., said a caller from In
gram the other day who thought the
News might need the dollar, chow is it
about those grafters? You have a
newspaper and they haven't. Suppose
they wanted to defend Themselves
would you charge them so much they
couldn' afford to publish their defense?"
Now, that is good question, we'll stat
ed. Charge them? Not by several
rows of apple trees, grated or ungraft-
ed Charge them? We would be more
inclined to pay them. The columns of
the Ladysn1ith News are wide open to
any defense they offer, space practi-
cally unlimited, we furnish paper, type,
ink, do the work and pay the postage
and smile even at that. Charge? Bless
you, if these grafters can show that the
News has said single material thing
that isn't so, we would be glad to have
them do so.
Now let us understand this matter.
There is such thing as the law of libel
and it ism t safe to handle it carelessly.
The Ladysmith News is published by
responsible conc ern. If it said what
isn't SO, it would be sued for damages.
This is why you may be sure that-If
you see it in the News it is so.