Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1911-08-31
AS to '.Assaulting."

"During these years of discus
sion of the questionable condition
of the finances of this county the
editor of the REGISTER has always
reverted to his cheap method OF
personal abuse of the editors OF
this paper. Since we have been a
factor in the clearing up of some
things demanding the attention OF
interested citizens we have en-
dured the personalabuse of the ed.
itor of the REGISTER with no con-
Germ and we are still Indifferent to
it but we cannot refrain from call
ing attention to the fact that there
are those, who less courageous
than the editor of the REGISTER,
have been inspired by the spirit of
the REGISTER to assault us phys
ically but always in the dark, I'M
til their course has eliminated in
an assault upon a congregation of
worshipers at divine service and
this assault, like the others, per-
petrated in the dark, and which,
by the way, has aroused the in
dignation of every self respecting
citizen of this county irrespective
of their political affiliations. 1.-THE
ReV. DR..
So the REGISTER is responsible
for the egg-throwing, is it? Its
"abuses" upon the various edi-
tors of the Enterprise, especially
the Rev. Editor Preacher, Real
Estate Agent and General CRATER,
are the primal, intermediate and
concluding cause. This is in
teresting, if true. But is it true?
/ have made no ''assaults" upon
the Rev. DR.. Swift, except in re-
Spouse to assaults he has made
upon men the latchets of whose
shoes he is unworthy to unloose.
have printed no "~personal abuse"
of him; but | did speak plainly
and freely of his false accusations
against the Democratic officials of
Iron county. In ~refutation of
his calumnious and unfounded
charges it became not inapt to
show that he was no novice in the
art of Justification, and herein, l
presume, did lay the '~'personal
abuse" of which he complains
and which he did not, for very
obvious reasons, reply to. l print
ed the Ham letter. Mr.. Ham, a
citizen of Delaware,-an old man
who had, by hard industry,
scraped together a few scanty dol
lars-attracted by the seductive
literature of the Murdoch Crumb
Company, was "almost persuad-
ed' to invest his little capital in a
couple of chances in that enter
prise; but he was dubious. His
years had taught him that all is
not gold that glitters. AT this
jqncture, someone-a secret agent,
no doubt, we'll acquainted with
conditions-suggested to him that
he write the ReU. DR.. Swift, pastor
of the First Baptist Church at IRON
ton, who a a minister of the Cos
pei and a leader of men in the
straight and narrow way, would
not lie for $50 much in hand the
whilst" but return him an hon
est, truthful statement. You've
read the Rev. Dr.'s reply to Mr..
Ham: did you ever before read a
document-whether from lay or
clerical-so overburdened with
falsehoodP Falsehood employed to
graft from a confding old man
his few hard-earned dollars.
In that letter the Rev. DR.. said.
snow, we are not agents for the
Murdoch Crumb people," A lie!
"We ship water to the cities"
A lie!
every man will receive ten
acres clear Of stones" A lie.
"Some will get many acres"
(clear of stones) "for their $780,"
A lie.
"The native is the slow, easy
going Southerner, to whom work
is a disgrace" A lie.
Come on and wade in-you
cannot help but win" A lie. as
poor old Mr.. Ham verified to his
cost.
IND so weiter!
Do the Baptist deacons and
brethren stand for this sort Of
thing in their pastorp What do
~
they think of the lying slur he
cast upon some Of them in order
to give a reason for their not hav-
ing taken hold of the "good
things scattered round about?
Do they indorse his deceiving a
leader ola bunch of chance takers
by conveying him to an old coal
hearth, overgrown with verdure,
and prying up with his cane a
handful Of the dirt to show the
rich, black character Of the soil on
that portion of the Murdock-
Crumb domain The Rev. DR..
has boasted Of that feat and loud