The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1906-10-16
MR.. FAIRBROTHER DENIES IT.
Editor Daily Industrial News:

E<GlLOE DAlIy ElQuSulAa NEWS
There appeared in your issue Of
Sunday a clever drama, In one act, a
buriesQue on the proceedings Of the
city council OF Greensboro. Il was IN
q happy vein. and il purported TO be
written by George Lemonade. Now
Just who George Ia. | Inn not informed
although | understand that several
gentlemen deny the soft impeachment
when accused-and l am willing hat
the honor for that creation shall fall
where II belongs. But when Lindsey
Hopkins. Billy Underwood. Leon
Brandt, Tim Malone inc a half dozen
others Of the patrons Of the Tragic
Muse come to me and tell me hat /
am branded as the authorette Of the
SOM in question. | beg space In your
paper. in order 10 enter a quiet dis
claimor. | never saw the article IN
I'll printed: | know nothing whatever
concerning the authorship Of it-and
/ want to know why IL Is that when
something appears in print concern
in gthe Pure-in-Heart that | am &C
cused of assailing them.
God Almighty despises 4 h~yprocrIte
and His book concerning a crowd of
them in this town is doubtless filed
but no. less does he despiSe the bush
whacker, the man who writes anony-
mously. The author of the clever sa-
tire perhaps does not feel that way
about it-but | always sign my name
TO what | write. unless il is for a
newspaper where another man as
sum"s responsibility. ] have metal
autographs which | sling below my
pieces for the paper; | have my name
standing in my OWN Album Of Song
and when | go after a man | stand up
in the open.
Were ! going To assail the city gov
eminent for its fast and loose meth
cd of doing business. would use the
best Anglo-Saxon in the shop. | would
not attempt To hide things / thought
behind the stage settings Of a New
that the city council make it possible
for a man to get something to eat. If
he had the price, at any time Of day;
/ would wonder why the dope mills
| are allowed TO run any time-and l
would inquire why a boothlack is a
necessity at any hour and a crumb of
bread should be denied the pilgrim
or the pike. | would want To know
why the city council allowed this law,
which it is claimed was passed years
ago, to remain a dead letter. and why,
all of a sudden, it picked Il from its
grave and set it up To do duty in GER
tain places, and why there was class
legislation.
| should insist hat equal rights to
all should be accorded. and / would
want TO know wherein was a livery
stable, hiring buggics to white men
and negroes for pleasure parties any
more of a necessity than a cup Of cof-
fee or a sandwich to the man who
came in town IN a belated train? /
would ask many questions along this
line-and / would not hide behind any
name. / would also suggest TO the
people Of Greensboro that unless the
city council would tote fair-enfOrce
the law as the law was passed. that
such a precedent was unwise and that
n of these days We would regret IT.
would insist that If a man wanted
| cigars and tobacco he should buy
them on Saturday, and that a cigar
store had no more right to run than a
! clothing store-for collars and breech-
er looms are necessities. would insist
tA"h IA 'AAs q H' llSlI ~ IL that
q man who owned q newsstand could
sell papers at q profit and the strug-
CLING boy who earn, a few honest
pennies must be cut ont Of his reve-
nues. M then ] would propose that
all things not necessities must come
TO a standstill on SUNDAY. Now. that
is provided | was going into the self
righteous proclamation business. But
were | running the boat | would see
to 1t that dives were closed all the
time, and if gentlemen wanted to run
cigar stores and newstands on Sun
day | would allow the drug stores to
run all day Sunday and orderly ealing
houses should have full sway, and I
would also pass a Jaw seeing TO Il
that prohibitionists r.ho received
likker by express should set 'em up TO
their friends.
But every time something appears
in the papers that isn't just along
plumb lines, a lot Of fellows rush to
me and insist that | wrote il. For
once and for all | want to say that
when / have a~nythin" to say I stand
up n say it. am ign m name to IL,
just like every i'1'l" man should do.
me until | saw il IN int-and / nave
no idea in the word who wrote It.
I know however, that | neither wrote
nor inspired it.
All. FATppPOTuEP