The Hayti herald. (Hayti, Mo.) 1908-1922, 1909-07-22
BACKBITING AND KNOCKING.

any intelligence, it will not deal in
personalities. We promised our
readers that we would settle all per-
sonal matters out of print.
A newspaper must be general in its
nature. 1t is published for more than
one person-it is published for all the
people. So if some individual is not
pleased with the paper it is of little
concern to the editor.
A man who would undertake to put
out paper to please everybody must
either be fool or crazy, or what is
worse, a drone.
The Hayti Hearld was not started
with the intention of pleasing but one
class, and that is the progressive,
wide-awake, fairminded class, who
want to do something and be some
thing and who want to push Hayti to
the front, and this class are more than
satisfied with the paper and they are
standing by it and giving it their
liberal support. A glance at our ad-
tion books will show who they are.
Of course, to be an advertiser, does
not mean that your advertisement
should appear in every issue,
but that you follow up the seasons
that best suits your business. 1t can
not be denied, however, that the best
advertisers are those who "keep ever
lastingly at it,
Before we started the paper here we
had all kinds of promises of support.
To hear them tell it, there was not a
in advertising; some were willing to
enter into twelve months contracts;
some of them were willing to make do
nations of So to $50; there was talk of
free rent for twelve months, etc., etc. :,
''because the town needed paper
and to have one it muGt be supported
and given start"
But with the paper once here and
established those who made the loudest
noise and were willing to do the most
were first to weaken and have done
less, while one man in particular has
stopped to hard down backbiting in
an effort to injure the paper, because
we stand by those who advertise and
make it possible for Hayti to have a
paper.
Now, we have known people to
''knock' on others until they knocked
themselves entirely out of business,
and we can point to several indi-
viduals who are suffering greatly on
account of their own knocking. Well
meaning people have very little use
for a chronic knocker, and less for an
old granny he backbiter.
We are ashamed to publish an ar.
ticle like this, but the good people OF
Hayti should know just what is go.
ing on.
A certain merchant knocker prevent
ed the factory from resuming work
here not long ago by putting in where
he had no business, while other mer.
chants had been working very hard
and were willing to make concessions
to get the factory. This is one in.
stance where knocking did harm, bu,
that was because the factory people
were already nursing u sore spot
and desired some preteXt to call mat.
ters off.
Generally, every knock is boost,
and it is the same with backbiting, be-
cause the backbiter and the knockei
must necessarily perish of their Owl
poison.
So the Herald is not alarmed, bu
rather, is ashamed d-humiliated-to bt
in town where there is "a class of peo
pie who would, if they could, kill theil
home paper.
A newspaper, if it does the towr
any good, must stand for something
and it must have the backbone ant
the courage to stand for what i
knows to be right. So those peopl,
who would dictate the policies of thi
paper and try to do it an injury if
fails to please them, are once mor
informed that we shall follow what
ever course seems to us to be righ
and to the best interests of the town
We shall continue our fight for ;
hog and stock law, for civic improve
ment, for better streets and cleane
town, for the faithful collection of al