The Taney County republican., 1910-05-19
AS We See It.

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1t is generally understood that no man
young or old, no matter how high hi
standing, has any chance to prove {;
case of open violation of the law with
out help enough to back him up, no
only in pistol toting, but in the whis,
key peddling and gambling habits thai
are established among certain classes
OF our people. 1t is we'll known that
gambling is being done on Roark a.
mong class that cannot afford it, but
those that do know dare not tell what
they know. So what can we do? Co
on and maybe you will help solve the
problem.
We don't know so we'll about that.
We don't know what influence this pa
per has in the county. And if the peo-
pie of the county throw up their hands
and say what can we do?" it seems
to US that it would be very egotistical
on the Fart Of the editor of this paper
to assume that he could do that which
the people OF the county despair of
doing.
Go on and maybe you will help
solve the problem says our cores
pondent. We absolutely refuse to go.
For going on necessarily means that
we will be driver, forcing the people
to action. We are willing to be
leader and when the people of the
county get ready to say come on,
let's solve the problem we will come.
II the people are ready to solve this
problem AID other5 that need solving
and want this paper to help them we
are in, but to go ahead and and solve
them alone we are not.-
This is S country where the majority
ruies provided the majority IS active.
An active minority often rules an in
active majority, but it can't rule. an
active majority. If gambling is going
OF or. Roark, it is because the majority
of the people in that neighborhood
want it of because the opposition to
gambling is inactive. And this ap-
plies not only to gambling and brow
beating of witnesses, but to whiskey
peddling and a score of other abuses
that<are rampant in Taney.
Why dosen't THE REPUBLICAN fly
into the abuses? For two reasons; first
without the backing of the people,
nothing can be accomplished; second.
without that backing it would be
For the editor of this paper
is no millionaire. We believe in pub
!icity and are going to tell what CIR
income is. We receive from subscrip-
tions $500, from commercial advertis-
ing 5000, from legal advertising $500,
from job work 5000, a total of $4,000.
These fgues are not exact but are ap,
It costs us to run our plal t
and buy material about $1400. leaving
us for living and profit $1,000 a year.
From the people we get only the sub
scription money, 500, and not all
Of this comes from Taney county by
any means. Where then does the
other $1,000 come from? From sources
hat would cut off if we started to tramp
On their toes. See the point? We
wouldn't have enough income left to
run bread wagon. We wouldn't
nave enough left to buy material, let
a,one paying wages and living.
Are the people satisfied with condi-
ions in Taney county? We don't be-
ieve they are, but we don't believe
hat they are sufficiently aroused to the
point where they will actively support
man or paper who will lead them in
light fer betterments.
Do they want a newspaper to lead
them? If they do they hav. given no
evidence of it. Let US take the situa-
On at Carrier. They say there is
gam ling going on there. We send a
pape- to our correspondent there and
we have two paid subscribers there both
Not a nan who gets his mail
1t CARRIER but what is in favor of gamb-
ling or else is not willing to pay the
paper a dollar a year to support it.
Ask US to start a fight on any thing or
We can't do it. For those
whom we fought would be active. they
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