The Ordway new era., 1912-05-17
We Take the Dare

q
il. opinion of the Appeal to Reason
r.. ,cli-asserted organ of the Social
~ yarty. One OF our readers takes
,>,yutions to the views thus express
cd I'D airs his opinion in the follow
III creed. Like all people OF his
Kind. lie hasn't the nerve to sign his
r.,u.c. hut takes refuge behind anony-
mty. Usually we carefully file such
canmunications in the waste basket
az the stove, but in this instance we
break the universal newspaper rule
and publish his howl. principally be.
c..u-c oi the two dollars we expect to
receive on the following wager. which
accompanied his cffusion: Two dol
lar, TO one that you dare not, WILL
NOT publish this as it is written
verbatim" We don't believe the
writer knows that the Latin word
",crbatim" means word for word.
or else he would not have thus in
yIi,d Us to exhibit to 4 plying public
In distortions OF the English Ian
gu.gc. However. here is the article
Iu,, rs it LEI, the heated pen OF the
writer:
"Ordwav. Colo. May II. IOiI.-Ed
i,ur New Era: You put up quite 4
',pccl' in your last issue concerning
the Appeal to Reason. You say The
Appeal is remarkable principally for,
il, violent and virulcnt villihcation of
everybody that doesn't agree with its
doctrines Now. Mr.,
Johnson, you either don't know what
anarch histic is. Elasc you ,wilfully want
to misrcprescnt the Appeal (Thc best
paper you or | ever read aud | doubt
very much that you have ever read
but very little OF it or you would not
dub i, an 'Anarchis,ic .Shcet) Your
position is readily seen. You. are try
ing to carry water on both shoul-
dcrs' You want no quarrel with us.
and you believe our (Socialists) creed
many excellent ideas
{ Please name , or .O. You also seem
to think that many OF us are men and
women OF good judgement and knowl-
sdgc-Ycs sir; Thank you for that;
but please pick out 4 fool or one that
is Socialist cause dad was among
IL ii you can. Name him to the pub
lie i'll your mugwump sheet. Well
not get mad. Then stop the sending
oi the New Era to single Socialist
in Crowley County. We want you
to do this. You: An Editor, who will
sit by and see the business. men OF
Ordway Combine to beat the farmer.
as they have, and to double their
prices on ncccssaries of life. You:
all Editor, to see and know that the
poor people are being robbed, and
say not word OF comment in your
papcr-are not fit for a>Socialist and
only for hireling for the Grafters.
The New Era is not worth the match
to use to light it in kindling our Sum
day morning fire. Yes; Mr.. New Era
Man. You will in retaliation for
what you said about the Appeal be
compelled to drop from your list cv-
cry Cor nearly SOY Socialist Subscrib-
er. When their present subscription
expires. as you say about the Appeal
it never will be missed" But we be-
lieve that the more the New Era says
against Socialism and the Appeal The
better it will be for the Cause"
Yours truly From Many of us So
cialists."
We are not sure just what author
ity the writer of the foregoing has to
speak for his fellow Socialists, but if
any of them, or anyone else, wants
to stop the New Era all they will
have to do will be to notify us to
this effect and their request will not
only be cheerfully complied with, but
the balance due them on subscription
will be just as checrfully returned to
them. We never have tried to force
this paper upon anyone, but have al
ways gone on the assumption that
the New Era was worth more than
the, small subscription price asked.
How much the business men OF
Ordway will enjoy being called rob-
bers and thieves and being charged
with combination to raise prices we
will leave to them to disclose. How
ever, we don't believe that they will
lose great deal of sleep over the
matter. 1t is indeed matter of in
teresting news that we have, such a
gang of buccaneers and robbers in
Our midst, masqucrading under the
guise of merchants, and we believe
something should be done, else we