Jasper County Democrat, Volume 6, Number 8, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 May 1903 — AN OUTSIDER’S OPINION. [ARTICLE]

AN OUTSIDER’S OPINION.

Monticello Herald: The Kankakee Valley Telephone, published at Wheatfield by ,W. H. Robertson, has suspended publication and the plant will be removed to Reddick, 111. During its existence the publisher courted success by blackguardism and resorting to such language as was suggestive of immorality in allsorts of phases. Some of the people thought that its course was “smart” and the publisher was a genius of the first water because of his lewd sayings and suggestive words, but ths failure of the publication to pay expenses is evidence that the majority of the Wheatfield people did not approve of Buch editorial work. It is also alleged that ths postal authorities were after ths publisher for publishing mattei which was unfit for mailing. Bs it as it may the paper died a deserving death. The man or men who hope to achieve success to-day by catering to the baser elements of society must surely make a failure.