The Oroville weekly gazette. [volume] (Oroville, Wash.) 1905-19??, 1919-10-17
COMMUNICATED.
Editor of the Gazette

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one of the joys of life is the oc-
Icasional visiting of congenial friends
me ideal host makes his guest wei.
come In such way that he wishes to
lcome again and soon. He has the ham
Ipy faculty of making his guest feel at
ease and the guests pleasure is his
lchlef object for the time. For obvious
Ereasons certain subjects like religion.
ana politics are not considered best
ior discussion. There are, certain con-
NentiOns that the guest must conform
10 II the host has some pet idea or
hobby it is the part of wisdom not TO
ridlcule or make light of it. When a
guest becomes bore and is tolerated
lonly because of charming wife or
because he is Likely raconteur.
Friendship becomes Unnecessarily
Istrained
There comes into our home each
week guest which would be exceed
ingly welcome except for one thing. If
you will pardon my becoming personal
think you can remedy that defect
leaving no scar nor any bad effect.
The guest ! refer to is your valuable
,,raper. Probably you will agree with
me that the chief reason your sub
scribers read the Gazette is to get the
news OF our community. They are not
particularly concerned whether you
are a republican or a democrat. If you
should change your political attitude
you would not gain nor lose a sub
scriber. 1t Is doubtful even whether
or not the great dailies exert the in
fluence on the voters that the editors
would have us believe. People are apt
to continue in the same party regard
less Of what happens as witness the
great hoax Of 1896 when the chief
plank in the platform of one of the
two principal parties reversed it's for
mer attitude. Not to be outdone the
opposing party flopped also and de-
feated the principal it formerly es-
poused. The voters usually vote for
party and not for the noble principles
for which the party stood.
| If the voting memers of communi-
ty run fairly even the subscribers to
the local paper are apt to be as evenly
ldivided and members Of the opposition
party support the paper as r'uch as
as much as dc members of the party
the paper represents. This being true
is it really in good taste for such a
guest to slap the hosts face every
time 1t enters the house?
| Any voter should have. opinions on
matters political anGs it fls proper to
express those opinions on occasions.
But when the man who has been twice
chosen by the people to be the highest
official in the greatest nation on earth
Il for holding to opinions and doing
things that a substantial number of
your readers believe to be proper it is
time to protest.
When, as actually happened re-
Gently, leaders of great party sent
out kilograms requesting that certain
members of that party refrain from
depressing themselves on certain mat
tiers until a conference could be held
TO determine upon the (party) attitude
toward the natter, honestly do you
not think that some of Us are justified
in asking that just among us friends
political matters be left out
1t is possible you may say 'if you do
not like it why do you not stop the
lpaper?" That is standing joke, but
lyou as editor really dislike to have
any one stop his paper. When, as
previously mentioned, your patrons
read your paper for the news, is It
wise, good policy or friendly to antag-
onize any member of your papers
family?
There is another reason. convic-
ton Is coming to be more and more
common that thoughts have much or
(all to do with ones general condition.
Good or bad thoughts are reflected
and become a part of each. "As man
thinketh in his heart so is he". The
opinion of some people is that were
it not for an extreme political hatred
so continually held and evidenced by
great politician he would be alive
today. Be that as it may. Time is fly
ing. Is it worth while for friends to
get excited and use provoking Ian
guage about affairs upon which minds
of equal patriotism disagree?
OPTIMIST.