The Nevada journal., 1856-01-25

The EVENING BULLETIN the
last three months this Journal has been
waging a righteous crusade against the
swindlers and knaves of San Francisco
What private wrongs or personal .enmities
may have moved James King of William
to his ferocious onslaught upon vice, we
know little and care less. We have no
desire to investigate the motives which ac
tuate the man, but we do admire very
heartily the spirit and vigor with which he
has attacked rascality in all places, high
and low, without fear or favor.
San Francisco is undoubtedly the most
corrupt civilized city on earth. This is
no mere matter Of opinion, but a plain
simple fact, proven by records and figures,
and within the knowledge of all the world.
Vice stalks abroad more unblushihgly,
cheats gain the unholy objects of their de-
sire oftener, and vice is received by vir-
tue more complaisantly than in any place
else. In whatever other thing our me-
tropolis may be inferior to the sisterhood
Of cities, in all that relates to vice and
corruption it stands prc-eminent and un-
appreachable.
None but itself can be Its PARALLEL
The press of San Francisco have been
free enough in general comments upon the
wickedness of their city and have morali-
zed upon the sins of their citizens, with a
decorous eloquenee which has done them
credit. Occasionally when great rascal
has disclo scd his rascality by his own i'm
prudence, they have denounced him indi-
vidually and heartily, especially after he
has been forced to run the state. This is
all very well so far as it goes. It is all
that could be expec ted of papers devoted
to general objects. But such mild reme-
dies were utterly unavailing to check the
progress of the disease. 1t needed the
saw and knife of a surgeon, to cut away
remorselessly the purifying sores that
were draining the moral energies of the
patient.
Then James King of William came out
with the Evening Bulletin. He bores
the public with no honied discourses upon
sin, but steps boldly up to the sinner, and
tears from his face the mask that conceal
ed bis deformity. He stands before the
public and points his finger at the knaves
themselves, and calls them by name-not
once or twice, but shouts them to the
world continually, till every eye is turned
upon them, and every citizen knows who
and what they are, who have betrayed
trust, broken their words of honor, and BY
their crimes, given the city that is so un-
fortunate as to be the theatre of their
knavery, its pre.eminence of disgrace.
1t is we'll that an able, determined man,
one whom threats cannot intimidate, nor
money buy, and who has within his reach
the means of information, has taken upon
himself the task of hunting down these
rascals, and driving them into the light of
day. The fear of exposure and punish
ment IS the only power that can keep them
ia check, and this fear he holds continu-
ally beforeNtheir eyes. They cannot az
ford to despise his attacks, or play the
common ruse of assuming an air of indig-
nant virtue, and treating the accuser with
silent contempt. Facts and figures are
as unanswerable when stated by one per-
son as by another; and whatever James
King of William may be, the facts and
figures of the Bulletin are before the world,
and call in vain for explanation The
paper is read. The questions which it
asks are unanswered, the charges unrefu-
ted, and the people of the state are justi-
fable in believing, as they do believe, that
james King of William tells only the
plain unvarnished truth.
Good speed to him in his efforts. May
he hit heavier blows and faster, till the
miracle is wrought, and honesty becomes
popular even in San Francisco.
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