Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 20, Number 94, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 August 1899 — Disappointing. [ARTICLE]

Disappointing.

The newspaper “roast” is the smart aleck’s way of working off on his readers some personal grieveance in which no one bat himself is interested. The effect is a disappointment, of coarse, to his egregrious conceit in believing that his readers are blindly following the curves of his lesh, ready to swallow his drivel without question. Sooner or later, if not devoid of reason, he will be compelled to bow to the demands of an intelligent pnblio and furnish it with good propositions or sound arguments. The time is here when readers are demanding plain, unvarnished facto and rational opinions. ••• - - A bicyle, second hand, for SIO.OO «t th“ £hk*go Bargain Store.