Show that request Reque tit 1 I rom roin livai h A pry nory door doar frend of tho the editor a itkin inan for we entertain the abo ver highest regards who as P a minister of the la is an erit and a good sp speaker culled on its last morning ond and asked that vo me le be gool and say bay nothing about our agnosticism giving ns a reason for the request that binder the benl aar aldemon Au An derbon demon our idao copio pic esE 64 that sescial in this city had become subscribers to the living issues and that for their bakes and that of their families no e should say bay nothing along that line while it la is certainly not our intention to abuse or unnecessarily tram plo upon the feelings of any and especially that portion of our renders readers who sio nio conscientious in their beliefs we must say eay that the request is to our mind untimely arid and more or less lees unreasonable this paper N n published for the promulgation of the truth as aa it appears to the editor and dortho for th uprooting of error no matter where found if the preachers of the goj pe pel I 1 of christ are not right they ot of all men ought to bo be willing to bo be sot set right I 1 ho that ministers aro are readers should bo be urged as aa a reason for us not attacking orl en or from the pulpit is untenable lot us lhoir ot pac this for a moment now vie no have probably a halt half dozen dozea saloon keepers on our list to overy every preacher would the good brother have us ua remain silent upon tho the wrongs of the aliquot traffic because there are a 0 number of saloon keepers on our list again wo we have po pio baby fifty stalwart republicans okho ho read our to where wo we have one saloon keeper now lie havo have us desist from discussing republican principles and policies from feat of injuring tho the feelings lingg ol of como om republican who happens to be a personal frondt biond the some samo would apply to our democratic friends and fiti thor among tho the best personal friends no io have bavo in the ibo city we can lauio mr 11 II M clay of tho the union pacific rail railroad rund mr george W IIo Ifo intz of the rio ilio grando western mr mir D E burnny of tho the oregon short vine line and elviral others cheso nion men anch of then thein patro patronize patrom niza zi the columns olum ns of this paper than nil tho the preachers in tho the city then shall wo we close our c cos es to wrongs that the railroad companies are heaping upon the tha people because theio gentlemen aro are pomonal friends and patrons of 0 this paper 0 doubt that thero there is a single species of wrong la in tho the whole country that is not represented by men who are patrons of this thim paper to bolow the request 0 to o its ingich ending there would bo be nothing left for us to say aay our field of operation li would bo be confined to those wrongs choso whoso representatives do not cot patronize us upon the baino basis of reasoning tiny any wrong ought to bo be able to make maho terms with us ua by lavishing its ita patronage upon us can you not my beloved brother see BOO that tho the ory ery thing abing you ask furnishes tho the babis for the present unreliably unreliable status of the press generally T |