The Taney County republican., 1910-07-07


1000. These figures show how figure
that Judge Moore will get more votes
than both his opponents combined. :
Maybe am not good newspaper
man, maybe I am not good politician
and maybe I wouldn't make a good
lawyer. For couldn't make an argu-
ment or make statement that I did
| not believe to be true without showing
by my guilty looks that / knew l was
telling lie. Not that I claim to be
SO good but because I couldn't tell
lie and get away with it. I've seen
newspapers that in every issue you
would see items like this: John
Brown, the most prominent merchant
at Jones Corner, was in town the first Of
the week" or Miss Mary Smith, the
estimable and highly intellectual clerk
at Yardstick's mammoth dry goods
store, is visiting friends in Kansas City"
You never saw anything like that in this
paper. Know why? A great many
newspaper men say that that kind of
stuff pays and that the more hot air
hattery you give people the better they
like your paper and the more they will
patronize it. They may be right but
l can't do it, for would feel like I had
made a blamed fool of myself and the
party I mentioned. I would feel that
after had perpetrated something like
that the party mentioned ought not 10
feel flettered but that he ought to stop
his subscription and kick me off the
sidewalk the first time he met me.
Some newspaper men in telling about
the corn and wheat I saw on this trip
would have said the wheat was better
closer home, although they really knew
better: If I was to do anything like
that 1 would expect every man met
to be thinking: Isn't he a iar!"
Some newspaper men would take the
facts concerning the development by
the Tri-State Mining Co. and make
them the basis for three-column article
telling how rich Taney county is in
mineral and how it will soon be second
Jasper county. l can't do it. I be-
lieve that there are a lot of good indi-
cations of mineral in Taney county,
but don't think there is any certainty
about it. I don't believe the chances
are anywhere good enough to justify a
man in prospecting unless he can amply
afford to lose the time and money. I
believe the chances are as good here
as in any undeveloped country and [
glad to see the Tri-State Co., which is
made up of men whom it won't hurt to
lose the money, investigate. And [
hope they will win and win big. But
I am not going to turn loose and claim
that it is a great mining country until
have been shown more proof You've
never seen this paper claim this county
was great for but two things, fruit and
poultry. And do believe that there
is not better spot in the country for
fruit and poultry and the sooner our
people go into those lines on large
scale, the better it will be for them.
Aud I am the same way about poll
tics. I can't make statement or an
argument unless I believe it to be
true. If did 1 would expect every
man met to think what liar. /
would 90 around feeling like sheep
killing dog. Whenever you see a
statement in this paper you may know
that l think it is the truth. However
7 know may be mistaken and I re-
serve the righ to make mistakes. I
know too that the point of view and
prejudice make lot of difference in
forming opinions. I know of lots of
things that I think are right and a
Democrat will think are wrong and he
will be just as honest as I and I will
be lust as honest as he in thinking as
we do. I also know that the wish is
often the father of the thought. that is,
we are apt to think what we want to
happen is going to happen. Take the
ala..;o., for INSTANCE With the same [