The Montgomery tribune. (Montgomery City, Mo.) 1892-1910, 1907-02-08
"HusrLE OR TAKE A BACK SEAT
FRIDAY, s, 1907
EDITORS WE HAVE NET.


when the writer of Revelations
warned people of the sin of add
ing to or taking away from the
words of the prophecy, men have
been given, more or less, to garbl-
ing, twisting, and misquoting the
words of others TO suit their own
selfish purposes.
Week before last the TRIBUNE
contained an editorial under the
head ga Little Preachment," in
which we argued the point that
the newspaper man with all his
faults was not as bad as a certain
class of people who are eternally
accusing him ofs sending his
paper ''after the time was outs"
of sending his paper although it
had "never been ordered;" of
sending it after it had been COR
dered stopped;" etc. We knew
at the time of more than one edit
or within less than a thousand
miles of the geographical center
of Montgomery county who had
been accused of one or more of
these offences, and, in paying our
respects to these %accusers, did not
concede that their accusations
merited any reply from US, and,
admitting for the sake of argu-
ment, that newspaper men were
totally depraved and would I'M
d~oubtedly go to hell, we began
exactly where they leave off, and
threw upon them the burden of
clearing themselves of a charge of
comparative depravity. But now
comes the meek and sanity (?)
editor of the New Florence Leader
and quotes one sentence out of
the half column article, as a text
for a paragraph in which he pur-
posely or ignorantly misrepresents
the theme of the article as q
whole. Here is his method:
That all newspaper men will go
to hell there is no doubt. = Mont
gomery Tribune.
We are sorry so see our new
brother make use of such express
sions. He is recently from Iowa,
and probably the expression will
do there, but in Missouri it will
not pass. Missouri editors are the
salt of the earth. They are the
first in war, first in peace and first
in the hearts of the people, and
spend their lives in trying to keep
all out of the bad places. We
hope to see the new brother join
the forces in spirit and in truth.
A spirit of fairness would sug-
gest that the Leader publish the
article in it's entirety, and let his
readers judge for themselve 8
whether OF not his conclusions are
warranted. The editor of the
Leader could MT tell a copy of the
Psalter from j. H. McLean's alma
nae, and it is our own private
opinion that his readers have long
since learned to take his moraliz-
ing with several grains of SALT"
and his literary taste with loath-
ing and humiliation. He publish
es matter in his paper of which it
is a shame even to speak, but we
have RETAINED from making any
comments which might reflect un-
f%avorably upon the character OF
his news presentation; and his
uncalled for criticism is the more
reprehensible when compared with
the self restraint of the TRIBUNE.
In the same issue of the Leader in
which the above moralizing was
perpetrated, in the first column Of
the same page, the editor gives his
readers an example of his sense
of the fitness of things by quoting
approvingly from the Rock Rap.
Ids Reporter the following stale
literary gem:
Last week q neat but foxy young
pullet, wearing high-heeled slip.
pers, with q neat, we'll turned an.
kle, incased in fancy black punct'
ured socks, dropped into town ani
started down the street soliciting
for . charitable institution. Ev'
cry rooster In town bit, and aftel
lining her pockets she joined he
pal, q sleek, well fed guy, and hi
the next train out of town. TIL,
next week q shabby women will
egame leg, no hip-pads and n