Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1910-05-26
AS To Dividends.

L"SN WIN lhS plODC SuS SSSl-
ed that this would be a good
time for the city to revise the
ordinances, that the publication
of same by The News might
help that paper to declare divi-
dend. Knowing the ability of
the Globe toscent an opportunity
to get pull from the tax pay
ers, we took the hint, and much
to our surprise learned that the
revision of the ordinances was
being contemplated by the coun-
Gil. But that is in the future, it
only eXemplifies the ability of
the Globe to keep tab on propos
ed work which might bring grist
to it's mill, and comes of long
business experience in that line.
AS to the matter Of dividends 10
the stockholders of The News,
The Globe has been running
under its present management
for about twenty-five years. 1t
was established for and has lived
on public pap, it has been advo-
cate of a clique in politics, which
for their own benefit kept its
mouth on the teat. AS in the
instance above cited it has
always by insinuation and innu-
endoes assailed anyone in public
life or business who did not
come through with the cash to
subsidize it. So in the matter
OF the printing of the water
works ordinance, it did not
know how much The News was
to receive for the job, there was
no way for it to know. The bill
had not been filed for the work.
The only fact the Globe had
was that the work had been done
and it got nothing out of it. On
that 1t assailed the private char
acter of men who have been con-
stantly in the lime light OF public
service and prominent business
since 1886. True to its instincts
from it's esta b1ishment under it's
present management it attempt
ed to pave the way for the re-
lection of these men at the polls
later. 1t has thus assailed men
who did not truckle to its sup
port from the first. will the
Globe file a motion to make this
more definite and certain?) We
are coming to the matter of divi-
dends. BY its abuse of busi.
ness men who did not support
it. by it's assailing them covertly
or openly by its publishing arti-
cles asserted that other towns
sold goods cheaper than Meade,
by advertising mail order houses
and booming in its news col
umns business houses of other
parts of the state. 1t not only
hurt the town as a whole, but it
had in the past lived, fattened,
grew wealthy and arrogent from
the very lite blood of the county
and town. The result being
that the business menof the town
with some of the wealthiest farm
ers of the county, formed and
incorporated the Meade Publish
ing company. The stockholders
of this company number between
forty and fifty OF the best men
of the county. For dividends
they expected to build a paper
which would advocate the coun-
try and town. One which car
ried to the world the facts of the
farming possibilities of the coun-
ty, the business opportunities OF
her town, and the social oppor-
tunities of residence within her
borders. The sale day feature
of the town, organized by The
News, and with the cooperation
of her business men carried for
ward to success, has been one OF
the cash dividends contributed
to the stockholders and shared
in by those who are not connect
ed financially with the paper.