Year: 1876

| ed by q feeble echo from some one OF his
brevet Corporals Shedon's emission is all


about the Chief, and, like his preaching, is ex-


ceedingly thin and slushy. But three points in it
are worthy of notice. First he says that it not
his move to call a meeting to denounce the Chief;


and his lick-spittle says others urged him to it


and then left him with the bag to hold. Second
| ly, that he is greedy to borrow the Chief each


week, of some one who pays for it, to see what


it has to say. Thirdly, that large numbers in


this community are dropping the Chief


Speaking of his being urged into that little


business, and then left to fight it ont alone, has


Sheldon never heard of the game called catching


snipesi The boys get hold of some fellow who


is hot for adventure station him in the brush or in
a bog to hold sack, while they 60 ont to drive in
the game. They then desert him, leaving him


in the dark and the mud holding the bag, anx-
| iously waiting for the snipes to come IN. They
have left Sheldon in that fix, and nary snipe in
the sack yet. He will learn something, by the
time he is a hundred and fifty years old.


As to borrowing the Chief to read the vulgar
things in it every week, there is no law against
it. Others besides Sheldon do it; and every one
of the two or three thousand persons whom he
is going to induce to stop taking the Chief, will
be keen to borrow every number, to see if there
is anything in it to corrupt them.


The third proposition is the richest of all-that
large numbers are dropping the Chief. That
large number, thus far, is tco, all told. Some
three or four others have talked pretty loudly
about it, but have not yet come to time. Some
of them have paid 25 or 30 cents ahead, and we
suppose they want to be corrupted until they
get their money back, before dropping it. These
chaps needn't be anyways backward about it, or
think they can influence us by holding threat
over our head. We have already received twice
as many new subscribers, the direct result of
this fuss, rs we shall loose by it, even if all who
have threatened to stop do so. The man who
wants to stop the Chief because we express our
sentiments, allow all sides hearing, had bet
ter do it at once and have it off of his mind. 1t is
but very recently that some who are making the
loudest noise, volunteered to tell that they
considered the Chief the best County paper they
had ever seen. A man who doesn't know wheth-
er paper is fit to take into his family or not,
till some canting priest comes along and tells
him, hasn't sense enough to manage his own
business.


The truth is, Sheldon has made miserable
failure in bucking against the Chief, and he re-
alizes the fact, and seeks the Wathena Reporter
as salve for his bruises. He is the wrong man
to lead such an expedition man whom five
persons out of every seven in the community
never allude TO except in disrespectfnl and con-
temptuous terms-not even excepting his own
church members-had better appoint himself a
commtte of one selfexaminatiOn, instead of
inaugurating hulabaloo against the Chief,
which was supported and read in Doniphan
County long before he was ever heard of here,
and will be supported and read long after lie
wishes he never had been heard of here. Let
tiers which this little shindy have brought us
from Marysville and other places, reveal a con-
siderable degree of sameness elsewhere. If we
were as malicious as he is, and should undertake
to get up public expression relative to him, we
should not have to labor half as hard as he has,
and would not be left with the bag to hold
either. For every person who says the Chief is
not fit to go into family, we find three who
say that Sheldon is not fit to preach.


We make no profession of piety, but we h ave
respect for minister W ho is true to his profess
sion. This does not include the nosey, NEEDLE
some breed, who want to force everybody to
pander to their narrow, bigoted views, which
they have learned at schools established for that
purpose, and preach as a matter of business, the
same as a blacksmith sausage maker serves
an apprenticeship to his trade. The preacher
who rears and snorts around, makes personal
war upon an individual, and attepts to injure his
business, because he occasionally expresses or al
lows others to express sentiments not in the
creed of that preachers church. is precisely on a
par with the rough who kicks up row and
cleans out dram-shop because all the liquors in
the bar do not suit his taste.