Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1915-03-10
OUR UNNECESSARY EVIL
Despicable Piece of Dirty
Work by a Bunch of Sore
head Knockers Comes to
Light This Week Should
be Run Out of Town.

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more despised by the well-mean-
ing man than the contemplate
knocker The knocker-a SLANG
expression, to be sure, but one
nevertheless which carries with
1t true definition OF that low
class of humans who are a curse
upon the town ln.which fate hap
pens to place them. The knocker
sees good an nothing, sees no
future Tor any person or place,
condemns his home town, his
own people and everything his
vile tongue dwells upon. Pessi-
mlsm is too mild a term to apply
to the knocker 1t says in the
Good Book that God made man
IN His own image From that it
is easy to draw the inference as
to who made the knocker. He is
ever-present with setback for
any project that is advanced. He
presumes to know everything
about everybody and their bust
ness, and to his great knowledge
he adds his own special brand of
sarcastic and slanderous vituper-
alton, speech that hardly seems
credible from a man capable OF
better things.
But it was ever thus In every
scheme of life there is always the
misht, the product of the lower
qualities, the dregs OF the cup;
the knocker fills that place in the
human scheme of things. He is
not content with publishing
what he knows. If he did he
wouldn't be a knocker, because
it is human nature to tell your
neighbors what you know, but
the knocker must needs stand on
the corner and pour his malicious
lies, the frame-up of a decaying
mind, into the ear of everyone
who happens by, being intensely
eager to reach the man whom he
knows will be most affected byi
In less time than it takes to tell
heundoes demonstrations work
of years with a few OF his bias
phemOus utterances and then
drawing away from his victim
laughs at the havoc he has made.
Such a case has come to our
notice this week. A farmer comes
to town to purchase one OF Villas
county's best farms. He inspects
the farm, finds everything as rep
resented ard is well pleased with
his bargain. Enter the knocker
who, in a fifty, lays his grievances
before the farmer. He damns the
farm in question, he damns the
people, the roads, the railroads,
the town, the county, the state,
the whole country and even him
self for being here. In fact, he SO
universally damns everything
that the farmer becomes interest
ed and he begins to marvel that
such a town should thrive under
such conditions. Consequently
he becomes a little suspicious and
does a little investigating and
then he learns that he has been
the victim of the knocker. But
happily for the farmer and the
community he believes his own
ewes for certain facts and as re-
suit concludes to purchase the
farm. The knocker almost sue
ceeded, 5ut--he knocked too
hard.
Unfortunately the integrity OF
that farmer prohibits us from
publishing at present the names
of the knockers but they will read
these lines and they may thank
their lucky stars that the hon
estv of one man saves them the
humiliation OF a public airing OF
their perhdy.
The knockers in this particular
case were soeheads who thought
they had grievance warranting
such dirty work. Thinking to
get even they maliciously spread
a canard whose effects came near
proving. disastrous, a beautiful
piece of spite work on the part OF
those who didn't have nerve
enough or brains to 60 to the
proper source with their trouble
and try to effect an understands
ing. Jealous of another man s
success and good fortune their
evil minds carry them away and
snake-like they strike their man
in the dark, doing damage that
undoes the work OF a lifetime. 1t
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