Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1918-01-18
nIpnlIi hTI1M of last issue to actual 0Ql
UtnOULAItUN subscribers UUT
A LETTER TO ID. w. MALONEY,
PITRLISHER OF THE JOURNAL

The following letter has been mailed
to ID. w. Maloney. publisher OF the
Rusk County Journal in the city of
Ladysmith:
D. W. Maloney,
Publisher Rusk County Journal,
Ladysmith, Wis.
Dear Sir Under the caption "On
Getting Stung'' you publish in your
issue of January II, an editorial arti-
Gle that is certainly regretable-re-
gretable ON your part for the reason
that the statements and charges are so
widely at variance with the truth
that you cannot escape the Just con-
demnation of those who are already
acquainted with the facts and circum-
stances. Ii is also re@retable that any
man should attempt to air his bus-
mess grievances, real or fancied,
through the columns of his newspaper.
As | shall publish this letter in the
issue of the NeWSBudget for the cur
rent week. Il statement OF the Facts III
the advertising of the last Liberty
Loan may be recited as your memory
seems to be much ut fault
When the Second Liberty Loan Cam
naign was started in Rusk county, the
committee in charge was anxious TO
have some advertising but there was no
fund from which it could be paid. 1t
was suggested by the NewS-Budget.
that two pages of space i'll the paper
could probably be obtained on the
ready put in operation for the second
in many other cities. One OF the
neighbOring cities, Barron, had such
an advertisement and II merchants
had contributed prO-rata to the pay
ment. The Journal had no part in.
nor was if consulted in the plan, nor
did it assist in any way. The News
Budget voluntarily on its part pro-
posed that the Journal be included in
the plan and that it run two pages. the
same as the NewS-Budget which sug-
gestiOn was entirely Il gratuity on the
TART of this paper and opposed by some
of the contributors The NeWS-Budget
did all the work True, you offered
TO pay a commission for the SOlicita
ton, but none was charged. You did
not assist in any way, in the slight
est. The copy was prepared by the
NewS-Budget. and all you had to do
was to borrow the type and run it III
your paper.
When the matter of collecting came
up [ suggested that the bills ought to
be paid in one place. 1t was imma-
terial whether you did it or it was
done by me. You admitted that this
was the proper way and agreed that
we should collect. hence bills were sent
10 the 20 contributors of $3.50 each,
with an explanatory note as TO the
proceeds you were to receive. Some of
those bills have been paid Some have
not. When they are paid. you will get
your share and not until then.
IN view of these facts your state
ment or intimatiOn that any one III this
office or connected with this office has
withheld amy money from you is pal
pabIy false. The bills for the adver-
Using were mailed in the regular
course. through my office and bear my
printed signature and the checks so
far received are made payable either
TO the NewsBudget or to the under
signed. What you have said, in plain
ly-and that seems to he your appar-
ent desire and the impression you
seek to make-that this paper either
for itself, its publisher or by an en-
pIOye, has kept your money and YOU
have been sizing.
| ask you therefore 10 make a cor
rectiOn in your next issue and to fully
and completely retract each and every
5nsinuatiOn. suggestion or statement Of
either delinquency in payment OF any
money claimed to be due you or that
any SUMS have been withheld.
There has never been moment
when you could not have in three min
utes found out the exact status of the
matter. Therefore x6ur published
statement is all the more unjust. and
bears the ear-markS of wilfgi malice
and purpOSeful attempt to convey the
impression to the public that you have
both been deceived and robbed. While
you do not mention this paper. as the
NewS-Budget was the only one con-
cerned the meaning is sufficiently
plain, even when shorn OF its ma
liciOuSneSs and falsehood.
Your explanation that this situa-
tiOn was the excuse for your having
contributed so TO the local Red Cross
also adds to the regretable side. ii,
after the Red Gross management reads
your statement. that YOU gave this
money 10 them under a misapprehen-
sion and that you had been "misled''
and ''stung' into SO doing. they do not
return the contribution which seems to
have caused you worry and regret, |
shall be pleased to take the subscrip-
ton off your hands and relieve
you Of this apparently undesirable
burden which you declare you have
evidently assumed both with reluc-
lance and under an expectation that
it was no sacrifice, only velvet"
| await sir, the retractiOn which is
Justly due to me, nor can you evade the
case nv nleadiug that Won did not maa N