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JUST THE SORT OF A SUBJECT.The Des Moine9 Capital is a seven-by* nine sheet, printed over on the east side of the capital city, out in the suburbs, as it were. Its editor is Lafe Young; who hails from a yillage called Atlantic, out somewhere near Council Bluffs. Mr. Young aspires to make his paper the leading organ of Iowa republicans, and more particular the prohibition element among them. He is a cold water fanatic of the most rabid sort himself, and nothing is too low for him to stoop to, no no trick too scurvy, no lie too barefaced, if it will only further his ambition.Here is a paragraph Mr. Young wrote and the Capital printed yesterday:The Burlington constable, killed by a saloon mob, has no foreign nation to take up his cause. He was an American, therefore he must be content with the ordinary inquest and burial.When he wrote the lines Mr. Young knew he was lying. He knew that no constable nor any one else had been killed by a “saloon” mob or any other sort of a mob in Burlington. But the knowledge didn’t make any difference. He counted upon his readers not knowing it, and the opportunity to make a little capital was too good for him, with his low standard of honor, to lose.Mr. Young is a liar. He is a paltroon and a cowardly cur as well. The truthstands about as much show in his presence as a snowflake would in Hades. Unfairness is his standard and misrepresention his ban* ner. If the g. o. p. is benefited any by such a fellow the g. o. p. must be a queer sort of an organization. The recruits gathered by his sort of “argument” would certainly make the devil turn pale with disgust.Burlington mobs haven’t killed any people in years. The Gazette doesn’t believe that they ever did. When they do get good and ready to give some one a send off, however, it will be well for Mr. Young to keep a good distance between himself and this city. He is justthe sort of a subject they would most delight in experimenting with.
Newspaper Details
Burlington Daily Gazette
Burlington, Iowa, US
Thu, Apr 16, 1891
Page 2
Full Page
Clipped by
Myke G.
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