Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1909-02-05
Don't Like The STYLE.
Mr., Editor

through your columns in the in
terest of a cause that more or
less interests our whole commun-
ity.
!, as well as most of our good
people are interested in Our
schools, and especially our Coun-
ty High School in which we have
such high hopes, and which |
think is well conducted, So far
as | am able to judge. I'll
In the efforts of the school
to create a fund to carry out
the plans in the upbuilding of
that department, which the peo-
pie quite generally endois, as
proper yet their efforts have SON
unmerited Encouragement, that
seems to be helped along by the
press IN manner not in keep
ing with a proper sentiment that
our entire population should en-
terrain in the matter, and above
all other influences our press
should be foremost in their en-
couragement.
1t seems. that the above men
toned High School have seen
proper to arrange for a course Of
lectures and high class entertain
ments with the Midland Lyceum
Bureau of Iowa, 70 II of which
numbers have already been given
all OF which have been excellent,
very much superior in culture
and educational encouragement t
that of anything yet appering
here that l have seen or by the
people of this city, they have
highly pleased the patrons and
on the whole have given very sat
isfactory entertainments.
In the daily Tribune of the
26th of last month there app az
ed a column and a half article in
a labOred and long attempted re-
port of the fourth number of
these entertainments given the
evening of the 25th in the
library auditorium that was so
unjust and manifestly hostile to
the school preparations for the
entertainment and also to the
performance that a detailed &C.
count or analysis of the report
is unnecessary to the persons
present at the entertainment.
We are now a County Seat
town in population entering up
on city dimensions and with be-
coming dignity and fit harmo-
ny with our educational facilities
should shed and rid ourselves of
all self constituted incompetent
censors through the press of our
musical and art entertainments.
This city should no longer be
the field of the boor journalist,
who writes his stuff for his own
amusement, with no regard fol-
good truthful journalism, or the
sentiments of the people.
The veil of disgusting appro-
bation-damning with ia mt praise
in the report, did not in any
wise successfully cover cover the
'contumeliOusneSS that possessed
the writer. This is a quality
that was quite in vogue in the
days of knighthood and ignor'
ance, but as the human family
gained culture and refinement
this ancient faint was dropped
aside and with few exceptions il
only noticeable at the tail of thu
procession.
Some of our radical writers Oh
the subject of this ancient
quaint and curious quality de
nominate it as the very yellow
est of the 'yaller' streak in thu
owners makeup. When thi
quality is found in fervid abun
dance, it takes on the ripe pump
kin hue, and in this enlight
= ened age, arouses in the behold
I. er a feeling of pity rather thai
anger or annoyance, for it is thu
he is suffering from the ancien
plague coming down through ge
erations. We know Of no posi-
tive remedy for this ailmen
:. but time, for it is generally con
stitutiOnal, and death may b.
the only cure. But fellow citi
zens can we watt can we no
summon immediate temporar,
relief some sort Of restraint
, When a bawling calf in our bac
x,or1 avhoucfc nY1r natlanao VI