The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1916-09-12
OUR FRIEND SIMMONS
is AGGRIEVED

Editor Star: / wrote you in Feb
ruary to stop sending me your pa
per; now why don't you do it. You
may as well discontinue it. | am not
going to pay you one cent. ask
you kindly to discontinue it and there
is no use for you to persist in send
ing it, thinking that I will pay for it,
for l positively will not. If had no
other reason for not taking the paper,
the editorials you publish about the
Guardians of Liberty of Spar would
be enough. l don't belong to the
Guardians of Liberty and therefore
don't know anything about them, only
they are poor men with an honest
purpose. Furthermore | have been
living at Sparr, four years and to my
certain knowledge there is no such
organization here as the Guardians OF
Liberty, and for you to falsify the
good people of Sparr in the way you
have about the Guardians of Liberty
is unjust and untrue.
Yours very respectfully,
Spar, Sept. 8. j. N. Simmons.
We can assure our friend Simmons
that his receiving the Star is entirely
owing to an oversight. His name was
ordered off the list as soon as he sent
in his notice, and we supposed it was
off, but the young man who corrects
the mailing galleys skipped Mr.. Sim
mons slug, consequently he has been
afflicted with the Star six months
longer.
We can also assure our friend Sim
mons that we do not expect to receive
one cent from him for the extra time
his soul has been vexed reading the
Star. We should worry. It's true thai
we consider ourself in duty bound tx
pay for a newspaper as long as VIZ
take it out of the postoffice and reat
it, but perhaps our standard of honol
il different from that of our frient
Simmons. The amount is only q
cents, and we blow that much in char
ity or damphoolishness almost ever,
day.
The Star has number of reader
at Sparr, and Mr.. Simmons is the onl,
one who seems to be particularly har
ried by the paper. As for the ar
ticles about the guardians of libert
at Sparr in this paper, it has bee
almost three months. since we hav
mentioned the guardians in connec
ton with Sparr. Mr.. Simmons ha
nursed his grief so long that we d
not wonder it burst loose with hir
rs cents worth all of sudden. w
don't blame him. We think we coul
keep rs cents worth of joy pent vi
but that much grief would have
have vent.
Somehow, tho, Mr.. Simmons state
ments don't justify, as printers sa
when one of them sticks plea qua
in 10-point line. He says he doesn
know anything about the guardian
They he says he does know they al
all poor men; also he does know thel
are not any in Spar. Now if thel
are no guardians in Spar, and /
does not know any of them anyhow
how does he know whether they al
poor or rich. We would hate to 81
Mr.. Simmons on the witness stand
the hands of lawyer with taller
for cross-examination.
We differ from Mr.. Simmons {
the financial status of the guardian
We are acquainted with three or fou
One is well-to-do gentleman hvir
some 20 miles west of here. Compare
with Mr.. Simmons and the Star, he
not poor. He often burns up
cents day in gas for his auto. A
other is a resident of Ocala; owns
lot of real estate, on which are Sc
eral houses, the tenants in which p;
their rents with "a great deal of re
ularity, or out they go. Another
running for governor as an indepen
ent, takes up collections and looks
and prosperous. Still another has
big farm, pretty wife, good c;
lots of fat cattle and hogs, all
which we hope will be doubled TO h