Democratic Sentinel, Volume 19, Number 42, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 October 1895 — Horace Greeley. [ARTICLE]

Horace Greeley.

A subscriber met Horace one day and said: “Air. Greeley, Ive stopped your paper.” “Haveyou?” said Horace. “Well, teats ioo bad,* - and t t Id «i>i ■* bat went j i.s wry Fhe next ui -i.iuu' G'r-el » m> bis subscriber at m, n i s id: thought you hvi »t<>pp <1 th-* i n buDA?’’ “Sol did.’’ * then theremust be some mistake, said Horace, “for 1 just came from the office, and the presses we*e rur.ui g. the c erks were as busv as e.er, the compositors were ir rd at work, a d the business was >oirgonthes m as yesterday amlfthe day befoie.” “Oh!” rjflcnlat°d the subscriber, “1 didn’t mean that I had stopped the paper, I stooped onl my copy of ; t because 1 didn't like your edit >rials.” “Pshaw!” retoited Grteiey, “it wasn’t worth taking ud my time to tell me such a trifle as that. Mv dear sir, if you expect to control the utterances of the Tribune by the purchase of one copy a day, or if you think to find any newspaper worth reading that will never express convictions at right an. les with your own, you are d >omed to disappointment.”