People's Pilot, Volume 2, Number 32, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 January 1893 — GOODLAND. [ARTICLE]

GOODLAND.

Corn off—2B cents. Sleighing never better. Dr. Pratt was home from Chicago a few days ago. The entertainment given by the Brook boys was a creditable one. Mr. Mitchell, ex-landlord of the Centra! Hotel, will sell some personal property at public sale the 28th. Mr. William Perry and wife, of Kentland, visited his brother John at this place Sunday. Mr. V. B. Jenks, coal and feed dealer, slipped and fell, sustaining injuries that confined him to the house for a day or two. The gentle reader will pardon us for devoting so much of the valuable space of the Pilot this week to so small an institution as the traveling W. C. T. s.

Mrs. C. Davis, wife of Prof. Davis, is visiting at Kentland this week. A protracted meeting by the Holiness people at Locheal. seven miles south of here, is being attended by a number of our young people, perhaps more for pleasure than for religious intent.

“One of Them” W. C. T. U’s. in the Goodland Herald gets on a tantrum and accuses us of everything that is contemptable but the crucifixion of Christ. We would have been accused of this no boubt, if we had been on earth at that time and there had not been enough W. C. T. U’s. to have accomplished the job. provided Christ differed from them in belief. This “One of Them” that takes the responsibility upon herself to speak for the women of Goodland knows that this conglomoration of nothing never had more than fifteen or twenty followers in this place at one time. So the readers of the PiLOt can see how far their influence extends. True, a year or two ago they got up a flurry anti a few women who had been attending to their own household affairs before were duped by the cunning hand of these spoil getters out of a few dollars m order that one or more of the select fifteen or twenty might have her car fare and board paid to attend a district, state or national so-called convention. But as soon as these duped women saw one or two moves they dropped out. An unsuspecting public have suffered likewise by patronizing quite a number of their sappers, etc. They too soon see the point and we have not seen their cunning dodge in the supper line for six months. We suppose that this “One of Them” is a part of an outfit that hired some teams here a yeai* or two ago to take their “huckster” stand over to Morocco during one of the fairs of that place. But up to date we blieve they have never paid the teamsters for their trips. Their place of business at that fair was under the amphatheater where they dished up hot meals and cold ones for twenty-five cents a meal. What did you say! “Where did they sleep?” Why, right where they served hot coffee—under the leaky roof of the old amphatheater. They carried their own knapsacks, haversacks and all drank from the same canteen. Will this “One of Them” tell us one single moral good they have accomplished from the money wrongfully obtained from an innocent public? One single soul they have saved at large, while there wash such a vast field of reform open within their own households? One honest dollar they have earned and spent for the good of fallen man or women. Show us one example you have set that ap intelligent community would follow and we will rise and call you great. There is not one. Your works are the works of fraud and your deeds have passed down the dark ages of time never again to be resurrected. * ‘Consistency, thou art a jewel.” Jack the Ripper. The Chicago Inter-Ocean says: You can always judge a town and its people by the newspaper. Never buy town lots or lands where a poor, half-starved newspaper is published. Newspapers these days are a necessity, not a luxury. They are so cheap that the poorest man can have them—unless he is running a bill at the saloon. It matters not how many city papers a man may take, he should give an honest support to his home paper.