Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1917-08-01
WALliAIiIlA. 8. G.:
WEDNESDAY,, UGUST I, 1917.


irailty Of the binding threads Of
friendship more often tested. News
paper editors frequently dabble in
fights and squabbles, political and
otherwise, in which they have no bus
mess, and are justly ccnsured; more
frequently, however, they jump
hcadlong into fights that belong to
the public. and arc usually ccnsurcd;
they struggle and twist and suuirm.
they knock and receive knocks, they
Kick and give kicks; they are "cuss-
cd' publicly and privately, but re-
spcct for the c"spapcr itself pre-
vents . reply in kind. Not infre-
4ucntly, too, are editors censured for
partlSahshtp whcr" even the thought
Of taking sides" was utterly lack
ing.
The following letter from an es-
tccmcd subscriber brings the above to
mind. which will serve as an intro
duriion:
"Bowersvillc. Ga, July ~, 1917,
Editor OF The kcowcc Courier,
Walhalla, S. C.---.Dcar Sir: | have
been subscriber to your paper for
80 years, and my subscription is paid
Mp to January |. 1918. When | was
Il slip OF lad worked for you and
set type, etc. and have thought |
would take The Courier the balance
Of my life; but have changed my
mind.
when fellow like you will busy
himself to get up stuff and allow
space In your nanrr-~~nnd paper al
ir> =" nigh prlcos now pr"vailinr--tO
Nrlnt thr dope that W. l.. Nrlttaiu.
SLATE superintendent Of Schools in
Georgia, mas recently. handed out viii
I!ving Taos. II Natson---a states
.ndn and among the greatest histo-
Tians Of his day, and one who has
been abused for 25 years by politi-
clans and one-horse editors without
cause-it seems about time to call a
matt. lie has always stood for Jeffcr-
Sonian democracy. and no one knows
1T better than do the editors Of the
papers.
You seem to be in favor Of the
government stopping his publication
and crushing free speech. |, for one,
resent it. and am sure that all free
thinking men and women do.
EXcnse me for criticiZing but I
think paper ought to be educating
trying to put men and women on a
higher plane Of life.
ALLOW me to suggest for you to
print that part OF the Constitution OF
the United States that cuts free
speech out OF the mails and forces
onr boys to the Eastern wars now
raging.
nb &C al, c,; 4
my Old home, and a State and cOun-
ty dearly love, would like to al
low this paper to come, and hear
from them through it's columns; but
I will not. Please cancel my sub
Scription. am a years old and
WILL according to nature, soon pass
into the beyond.
"YourS truly.
-. NJ Cannon"
In our issue OF last week we
printed dispatch from Washington,
ID. c., relative TO hearing to be had
in the Federal Courts. in which the
question OF admissibility OF Mr.. Wat
sons papel, THE Jcffersonian," will
be considered. At the same time Il
dispatch recording certain remarks
made by state official OF Georgia
concerning Mr.. Watson appeared. We
published both dispatches. with no
thought whatever Of being or appear
ing TO be PARTISAN. We know little
OF Mr.. Watson~-noth;ng save as he
has given his public record by his
own paper. We have found opinions
and expressions by him with which
we could agree, and others with
which we could never agree or en-
dorse. His worst fault is, as we view
it, that he is an extremist. An cX-
trcmist seldom escapes being arro-
giant, and arrogance we dctest. There
fore we seldom quote Mr.. Watson:
Dut, he being prominent man, we
have frequently published dispatches
concerning his court squabbles. We
do not know whether Mr.. Watson has
a. WEAKNESS for courts, or the courts
a weakness for Mr.. Watson, nor Is it
any OF our concern. The public Ia,
however, interested to an extent In
the courts and Mr.. Watson in their
relations to each other, and we have
endeayored to give the public some
information along these lines. That
is our business--to seek and to print
as much Of public matters as we can.
Unless there is sufficient Importance
to the matters published to warrant