Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 21, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 January 1911 — WHEN UNCLE PINK RAN PAPER [ARTICLE]

WHEN UNCLE PINK RAN PAPER

He Did All Work Except Colled Money—That Was Human Imposf alblllty.

"Me work on a newspaper?” said TJhcle Pink, "why I owned a newspaper once, and did everything on it from setting type and running the preaa to collecting the news and writing the editorials. There was only one thing 1 didn’t do, and that was because it was a human Impossibility. I refer to collecting the money. People had no idea of paying up, or if they did, they didn’t carry out It waa in California about five or six years after old Sutter found the first pay streak and the crowds were still coming along. They had courage, strength, education and determination—-every-thing but money. And they were willing to give up the comforts of home, to give dp their time and energy, to give up their lives, yea, to give up anything but money. That they wonld not give up. This made newspaperlng a difficult business. “I ran the Gulch Weekly News Just four weeks. At the end of the fourth week I was against the necessity of stealing food or going to work for some man who had it Bating may not be an artistic performance.” said unde, feelingly, "but it is grounded In the instincts of our race. In 185 S, much more than today, I was set and determined on eating. I saw if I ran the newspaper any longer that I would have to give, up eating. I was like the boy in my town who said he would give up everything to go to sea. He went to sea, shipped on a whaler, and gave up everything, too, as it turned out There is nothing so wobbly in a high wind as a whaler. I tried to sell the paper, but the man I approached on the subject reached for a weapon and I did not pursue th* subject The newspaper stopped right where it was. And it was a pretty good paper, too. Some time when you have a quiet hour,” said uncle, “I will bring down my editorials on the annexation of new territory and read' them to you. Tou needn't look so darned glum. You'll enjoy them. They make a powerful presentation of the subject. If it hadn't been for those four editorials in the Gulch News, California would today be a Mexican state. They opened people's eyes to the situation as it was. I’m afraid that tobacker your friend is using is doped.” “Help yourself, uncle.” "Thanks."