The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1911-05-03

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obstruction whether school keeps or
not both sides claim BE- j. secretly
helping The other side"
tits funny business. quoih me red
.he1s=s raven Of the salt licks. fun
ny business Just now they are hold
ing an indignation meeting in Sterling
lang passing rhe he's . start a new pa
per- And 1, who for twenty long years
iin Sterling have been for every good
movement VINO nave set Up miles o.
advice, asking the people to vote
bonds and boost the town. who have
stood for go3d roads. good schools and
railways and public improvements Of
every kind. an called an old knocker.
And ail whyg Heaven knows / don't
because ! get crOssways and cn the
NERVES of a lot of good fellows who
were doing something Or other that
didn't care about much one way or an
other. But still ! am a knocker, and
what is more, I'm double dealer and
an insrlguer and every other fighting
Word I'll THE dictionary And why2
lIll tell you why-because run a
newspaper
~ was the gentlemanly chamber
maid ID a livery stable. II was the ur-
bane proprietor Of the Palace barber
shop. if J took ii and done law and
abstract and insurance; II / pounded
lpills and sold cotton batting. ran
laundry or beat carpets. could live
simple and peaceful life. with only
debts and traDsgressions 10 load me
full OF woe But running newspaper
I am soaked with public sorrow.
Its a funny business, sighed the
Rice county seer, as ~ looked into
purple past emo peered into a hazy fu-
ltuFe. In times of great public stress
over the election Of member OF the
school board or the choosing by SOW
ereign people OF candidate for the
council. the editor, whose real busi-
mess is to furnish a reliable medium
for the pnrveyor Of drugs, paints ane
spiral corsets, Of prunes and farm i'm.
plements, to advertise his wares, the
editor becomes a storm center Nay
more. he is doormat. kicking post
red rag and casus belli ali wrap
ped in one neat package and sold at
dollar a year He has not right, title
Or interest 10 his own opinion. his soul
us mortgaged and he can't breathe
without meter nor think without
having his motives set upon by the
coroner and subiecting his after.
thought to cross-examination
In such times as these some man
whom he has lived with as neighbor
and friend for thirty years takes the
street like mad-dog yelping ana XII.
eodling in rage He carries the paper.
folded to show the infamous item,
he points the finger Of scorn at It end
yells like q circus calliope AZ the
wrongs and injustices OF Ms miserable
lot. He rigs up some old Slime item
printed in The big corn year Of '89 and
holds ii up Though lost to sight to
memory DEAR and you'd think that
that fellow and ] had been bitter burn,
ing enemies for a long hateful gener-
alton instead Of old army friends who
drank from the same chapter drink
ing cup and put on the same Mother
Hubbard to cxemplify the work Of the
grand-Iodge.
What though ! walk my feet off,
wear my fingers out yell my lungs
loose for sterlin, does it make any diff
ference when my old army friend
takes the street? Not bit His grie
vance breed others smouldering EN-
bers Of other differences are uncover
ed th dead past exhumes itself and
walk down the street human par
lah am the social and moral leper
am the pink whlakered disturber OF
the public peace. am the fountain
of all trouble, all the misfortunes. ali
the tribnlation to which the town has
been heir in thirty years.
n am the hoodoo; ! am the Jonah
am the man who struck Billy Patter
son, the fellow who rocks the boat
and the original Individual who in
Cured the debt TO the devil for which
there is no pitch hot. And why? Just
because am engaged in funny bust
ness
From which take II" this depon-
ent responded, "you have a low opin-
ion Of the newspaper business
Not 70 the least the personifica.
ton Of the dawn upon the misty noun
tain tops replied, mot at al. It's the