The gazette-times. [volume] (Heppner, Or.) 1912-1925, 1914-10-22

might at election time. And so it
came about that the liquor interests
were touched for a substantial do
nation. Il could be paid either in
cash or in agreed monthly donations
of IS or more, or it could be taken
out in advertising of a certain agreed
amount. But that deposit On the
typesetter had to be met
L. X. Harlan, MANAGING EDIT
OR of the Herald, has said that his
paper does not belong to a syndi-
cate. l have already proven cut of
his own mouth that it does belong to
syndicate, but that was not the one
to which l.. X. thought | referred.
Had l.. X. been wise enough to
take a well-merited rebuke without
giving me the lie, | would not have
disclosed the syndicate to which he,
in his guilty fear, imagined l re-
ferred, but "The guilty fee when
none pursueth."
Now l distinctly wish my readers
to understand that l find no fault
with the vets for supporting their
own paper, each class OF the COM
munity has that privilege. Where |
do find fault with them is in their
lack of judgment in the man they
chose, and that most hurtful policy
of silence.
Mr. Harlan says his paper does
not belong to a syndicate. Mr.. Har-
Ian might then enlighten us as to
what those men who found the de-
posit for the machine are getting for
their money. Are they making him
gratuitous present of that money?
hardly think that any of my read
ers will believe so. IT they are not
being paid in dividends they are be-
ing paid in work of some kind or
another which is not of kind that
they care to have made public.
But this is the policy Of silence
to which l referred in the first part
of this article.
The Herald is similar then to the
papers of which l spoke in the first
part OF this now too long answer,
in its policy of silence, in the man
her in which its editor was obtained,
the class to which this man belongs,
ard its dark and entirely bluffing
way of limiting at horrible and mys-
terious things to come. Take it all
through, it is in fair way to be-
come one of those pestilences to
which l have alluded, whose very
existence is plague to the commun-
ity in which it is given away, and an
offence to the good feelings of the
people; l mean A YELLOW JOUR-
NAL.
Mr.. Harlan writes of me as being
deceptive and hypocritical. Well!
we'll. And what does the public
think of this man who is running a
paper with the avowed intention OF
breaking man with a large family,
man who was in this county when
the MANAGING EDITOR was "mul-
ing and puking" in his cradle? A
man who, so far as l can ascertain,
has never done any man wrong, and
whose only fault consisted in report
ing a police court case in which one
of the silent promoters of the Her.
aid was fined, and rightly too.
What does the public think OF this
man who, whilst taking money for
the continuance of his filthy rag
from the interest most opposed to
the church element, and with COM
| mercial murder in his heart, prints
long articles on the advisability OF
| going to church? AS if the church
element were green enough to fall
for any such policy so obvious. And
this man calls me cunning.
With regard to the braggadocio
of which the MANAGING EDITOR
accuses me: | remember one eve
ming when one of the leading young
men of the town asked him if he was
running a paper in which Joe Will
kins owend the controlling interest,
Joe wilkins representing the saloon
interests, he denied it saying: Il
will print, as by law required, the
names of those who own this paper,
and you will find that only my
brother and myself own this paper"
And did he really suppose that
either the young man or myself
were so simple that we expected to
Sc Mr.. J. l.. Wilkins name, or shall
| we say, that of Mr.. Vic Groshens,
or any other hackers appear in the
list? Not much. But it was highly
| amusing to see him try to deny the
| allegation.
He told the young man in my pres
ence that his gift to his brother was
equal to a present of $4,000 cash.
What, then, is the paper worth?
Why had such rich journal to post
pone the payment OF $50 on the
typesetting machine for two months,
and finally get an outside citizen to
guarantee the payment? $4,000. Some
Bull.
u | thank the MANAGING EDITOR
for his kind remarks re my charm
ing personality (Which l admit is
we'll putt, and deeply regret cannot
return the complement.
A. l.. SPARKLING.
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