The state herald., 1920-01-02
/ COMMUNICATION
Editor Of State Herald
Holyoke, Colorado.
Dear Sir


50 called 'Blatter Enterprise They
IN their article Of last week exhibit
the source Of their. anger as they
say in doc Smiths" alleked news
paper"
l had wondered what had caused
their demonstrations in their last
two issues.
That is it-"Doc Smiths alleged
newspaper, they think that l am
; competitor and they are going to
crush me at once. own q news
, paper SO the "Blatter" says. But
would l not have right to own
newspaper if l wanted to and had
the price to buy onei
But let me say to you, l am not
so bad off as you think l am /
have never owned newspaper nor
am l thinking Of running one on
commission. see that you say
"you do not hate me" l suppose that
you just "want to show your
"Atorety."
Now Mr. Editors your first affida
Wit was that your client had bought
all Of the drink he wanted since
last winter. In your second affi-
davit which you make for corrobor-
alton you state that had been SELL
ing it to him for u year and a half
which one of your affidavits do
you expect the people to believe.i
quote "never refused" you
know now when your client got two
s1.50 checks from two Of his fellow
workmen and was going to get a
quart Of alcohol, but never return
ed with the alcohol, and cashed both
checks in the bank, was he refused
alcohol or did he just take the mon
ey and also the alcohol You know
in composing this affidavit you
stated that he publicly confsased
his fnilings, you shouA have ta,d
the public why he did not confess
his failings at fair timewhen the
same thing occurred, and the church
did not find it out until this last
misconduct came out and the other
with it. People are always sorry
when they are caught, but let me
tell you something that every one
knows, that booxer always tells
that he got his drink easy, found it
or that u friend gave it to him, or
accuses an innocent party, in order
to distract the attention from the
real one he got it from, in order
not to cut off his future supply.
You never saw more than one out of
one hundred Of these unfortunates
who was not ready to say he would
not do it again, and that this was
the last time. Same old story but
Let us pray that in this case it will
prove moro true.
But l do not quite appreciate him
trying to use me rs the goat, Of
course be was sore because he was
trying to force me to let him have
alcohol, and did not get it But
when / asked him where be got his
drink, he became very angry. and
talked load. and said that no man
.ould say that he had, had adrink,
and I had to order him out Of the
store, and threaten to throw him
out before he went
But in his affidavit he says that
willingly sold him "all that he
wanted"
Now Mr. Editors why did you 60
half way 70 the church to meet Pet
ers ard Lunsford, to attempt to re
port a church scandal Why were
YOU both with Lunsford, and Peters
in Garland's blacksmith shop about
six O'Clock Monday night, with
your heads together and Peters had
you cut out what even he could not
swear to.
You seem to roll scandal as
Sweet Morsel under your tongues,
II sssns to Hgrss with that old bar
room taste which seems 30 pleasant
to you. and the bar room style Of
yosr literary compositions. Try
10 est rid Of your old habits, and
perhaps yoa can fool some one. in
to thinking that you are nice men.
But your present works too coarse.
Now II that beautiful crowd Of
, four In 0arland's shop, should all
lmaks . confession, We might be
<sbs TO say, tif their confessions
we're sincere) that "Mr. Editors
were nice men, very. very recently
nice men and the sweet singer nice
man, very, very, very recently nice
man.
Now my nice editors see II you