The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1911-08-02

One night during the chautauqua a
little child of A. F. Barber, of Charter
Oak, strayed away from the home of
p w. Harding where Mrs. Barber was
visiting, and for time there was a
great deal of apprehension for fear
some harm had come to the child. A
number of persons became interested
in the search, and the child was dis
covered but one, two or three blocks
AWAY from where it had strayed. For.
tunately no harm had come to it,
SEEKS TO DIVERT ATTENTION.
The Bulletin having Deen caught
l"red-handed" in its opposition to paw
ling after first agitating for the i'm
provement and contributing to the
sentiment which induced the city coun-
Gil to spend large amount OF the peO-
pies money in preparing for the work,
and, while still posing as favorable
to the proposition, seeks to divert at
tention from it's record of inconsist-
ency by charging that others were re-
sponsible for the failure to pave, and
especially seeks to place the RESPONSE
bility upon the proprietor of the Re-
view
The Bulletin suggests that it has
heard that somebody has said that the
proprietor of the Review threatened
to sell his property in Denison and
move away if the paving proposition
was carried out. This is not very
positive statement, but it seems to
answer the purpose OF the Bulletin,
which even expresses regret that so
reckless statement was made. The
very recklessness of the statement
purported to have been made should
have put the Bulletin on its guard suf-
fciently to have investigated whether
such a statement was in fact made. 1t
looks very much as if the Bulletin was
drawing upon it's imagination for
something to attract attention away
from it's own conduct. 1t seems ludi-
crous that the proprietor of the Re-
view would have made such state
ment in view OF the fact that this pa
per from the beginning and all the
way through favored paving and es-
pecially the streets in the business
center Of the town. The statement at
tributed to the proprietor of the Re-
view was never made, but he did state
that he had stock \ in certain COM
panies, the owners of which were
made the subject of attack by the ed
itor of the Bulletin and others and an
attempt made to create the impression
that they were responsible for defeat
ing paving, that he would sell, think
ing that a good price could be OBJ
tanned for the stock in view of the ex.
aggerated statement of profits which
were said to be coming from the in
vestment 1t seems the boosting
which the companies received served
Illus purpose III tuc uc1cdt VI tAC pa
ling. because since then the stock men
toned finds no purchasers.
We doubt the wisdom of spending
time to deny assertions of this charac-
ter in the Bulletin, and it is the first
time that the writer has ever paid any
attention to the frequent personal
charges of the Bulletin. 1t may be that
the want of news for the paper this
week will excuse the diversion.
The situation can perhaps be illus
trated by the fable where the wolf
standing up stream, complained that
lamb at a point far below him was
disturbing the water in the vicinity
of and to the annoyance of his lord
ship, the wolf. We do not say that
the editor of the Bulletin is wolf no1
that the proprietor of the Review is
lamb (although without audibly
smiling there might be ground for q
claim of this kind, but we mention
the fable simply by way OF illustra
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