Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 293, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 December 1919 — Strange Condition. [ARTICLE]

Strange Condition.

“In scanning our exchanges a peculiar condition of affairs is revealed to us,” admitted the able editor of the Grudge Gazette. “It appears that, while in no town where a paper is published are there any profiteers, all the towns from whence other papers emanate are literally crawling with them. Although the merchants in all the neighboring hamlets are gouging and skinning and hogging mercilessly and to the uttermost penny, here at home, wherever it may be, the dealers are merely conservative or progressive business men. In short, in the eyes of the country editor, his own advertisers are never scamps and rascals but always prominent, influential and angelic. And to be perfectly candid about it, that condition obtains here In Grudge. Country editors are not absolutely obliged to live, but they kinda like to while they are at it” —Kansas City Star.