Plentywood herald. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1908-current, 1930-03-27

sary to come up at once for some
clean air.
Your methods are so we'll known
that they are teetering on the edge OF
boresomeness. Someone gives you a
swift kick in the belly and a poke
in the nose, and you grunt nobly and
call the attention of the public to the
fact that your opponents vest has a
button missing. You are always try
ing to hide behind personalities, when
if YOU had an iota of right or truth
on your side, you should be refuting
| some of the other fellows ccusa
tons.
Here is the way you work. You
know that there are a few people IN
my ne~ighborhood who dislike me and
would be pleased to see me referred
to as swell head" In fact | have a
letter in your distinguished hand
writing, under date of May Sth, 1929,
in which you discuss the matter at
some length. You hope that by speak
ing of me in such a way as to please
these people you can divert their at
tention from what l say.
But as it happens, it does not mat
ter to the people of Sheridan County
whether my head is swollen or
shrunken or merely normal,-except
insofar as the more nearly normal a
head may be the less interesting it is
to the people in general. 1t does mat
ter to these people that a gang OF IL
airs and sneaking thieves are trying
to put the county in their capacious
pockets. And if l can help to take q
little of the wind out of the preten-
sions of any such gang, l shall do
so,-with a torpedo, submarine-fash-
ion, or a bomb, airship fashion, | do
not care which.
Now, to prevent from using my pc
culiarities as a smoke screen behind
which you may hide your inability to
reply convincingly to my charges, l
shall admit at once that | am indeed
swell head, whatever that a /
am, besides that, corrupt, self seeking
and even vicious. / have violated all OF
the ten or twelve commandments, and
intend to violate new ones as soon as
l conveniently car. / have robbed old
men and widows of their savings, and
have bought bad booze with the mon
ey. l have burglarized county treas
uries, and accepted brides from hood
huns. l have done everything that
you and Salisbury have done and then
some. In short, | am a bad, wicked
boopey-man who is troubled with a
perpetually acid stomach (~probably
the result of eating too many live oa-
bies), and who is an enemy OF man.
kind.
However, since the Producers News
began calling me names, feel honest
and respectable again.
And now, with my personal char
acter disposed of, we can get down to
brass tacks.
Brass Tacks, First Series: Refer to
nv letter of February third. You
haven't answered it and you won't, be-
cause you can't.
Brass Tacks, Second Series: Your
latest piece of inconsistency is the aid
and comfort you have given to the
two Plentywood razor-wavers who
have just succeeded in closing the
shop of a rival for the second time
within a few weeks. You, who are
continually squawking about your
sympathy for the poor down-trodden
workingman who does not get a far
chance, because someone else who is
richer and more firmly established in
sists on walking over him! You, with
your fathead assumption that you are
the original plumed knight riding
boldly out in defense Of the weak and
the oppressed! A fine pr~oletarian you
are! With one hand you wipe away
huge tears Of pity, and with the other
o slip a knife between the ribs OF
the mar for whom you pretended to
be sorry.
/ have just read what A Mutt (fo1
once one of your anonymous scrlbes
seems to have chosen an appropriate
pseudonym) says about the matter
He remarks: "Well, we have a barber
law. -. Why should it not be enforc'
ed? What are these laws for?
Splendid Mr.. Mutt; you are a cred
it to your name. But, dear Mr.. Mutt
have you heard that we also have
certain laws concerning alcoholic bev
erapes, their use and abuse? Do W.
find the Producers News recommend
ing that these laws be enforced! ~
we? +.
And yet the same writer refers t.
other people as Shrinking hypro
crites!"
Here is a choice fact or two abou
those remarkably public spirited men
the established BARRIERS Of Plenty
wood. They are sanitary, all right
and they are good BARRIERS, too, whe1
they really wish to please. But an
speaking now for the farmers and la
boring men,-real laboring men; NO
the kind who get themselves electe'
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