Daily Iowa State Democrat. [volume] (Davenport, Iowa) 1856-1859, 1858-09-05
THE OTHER GARD"


n Which appeared in the different papers o
n Frilay dressed up as editorial. The head
II of aose discourses were furnished to tli,
edibrs, and upon them they enlarged to sui
their different fancies.
/ Our 'L,dy-like" neighbors Of the Neaos
handled this question up to Friday in q
manner both delecate and elegant. Profes
sing to be an organ of the Democratic party
advocating and defending its principles
they could not consistently endorse an In
convertible rag currency in place of a cur
fency convertible into epecie at the option
OF the holdere 1t is true, that they have
occasionally limited that it might be a bless.
'hg' but the advocacy has been so faint, that
1t did neither good nor harm. On the 9th
Or hand, they could not think of taking a
decided stand against . currency issued by
sach concern "a that of Cook 4 Sargent.
If it had been the offspring of smaller fry
they would probably have had the courage
to pitch in As it was, it required greater
amount Of courage than they possessed. If
their position on the currency question has
been as disagreeable to themselves as it has
been ridiculous in the eyes of our citizens,
they must have been in a most unplea ant
predicament. Certainly no public journal
on our exchange list has occupied quite SO
tdt stand point upon a prominent ques-
ton, as our neighbors of the Necs have on
the rag money controversy.
Their editorial Of Friday we attribute,
not to them, but to Messrs. Cook d Sargent
1t was sort of House telegraph operation:
Cook d Sargent communicate at the one erd
the Ne~s registers the message in type, at
ue other.
Striking out this article, therefore, from
heir running account on this question, and
reckoning the influence they have brought
to bear upon it, outside and inside, upper.
side and under-sde, right-side and left side,
and it stands about as follows:
Dr. to 500 strokes of the pussy, ap
Cr to 500 dawn
DR.. to pulling pussy's tail 30 times
Cr. by pattlng pussy on the head 20 times.
Balance pro and con Nothing.
We may have erred in our calculation in
some small particular, but think we are
very nearly correct. We do not intend to
misrepresent our neighbors, ard if any of
our readers should happen to discover a
mistake in the figures, we shall be exceed
ingly happy to correct
The Times is Of course but fulfilling its
manifest destiny in publishing the general
orders issued at headquarters" The pro-
prietors of that sheet being by nature toad
les, and living in the light which radiates
from the face Of its approved good masters,
must needs reflect that light, or die.
They take readily the financial teat which
Is offered, and cease apppeasing their appe-
tites only Tor the purpose Of glorifying the
source from which their sustenance is drawn
No man really expected Of the Times the
expr ession Of an Independent idea, and con
no one will be surprised at its
course.
The Gazette Is an old offender Sneakng
around in lanes and alleys, and in dark and
dirty places. in at back doors Of business
houses, and at kitchen doors of private res
dences, soliciting the high and low, rich
md poor, to cut off their patronage from
! contemporary, because it dares to believe
hat money is better than rags as circula-
ing medium, and dares to say so, they most
'ichly deserve the low, pitiful position, in
which they find themselves crouching at
he close of this currency war known now
'nly as miserable, plant tools of a gross,
hinplaster monopoly; following in the
wake of the wild cat army, and performing
he work Of scavengers: cleaning away
he filthy deposits that accumulate upon the
oattle field. their blowing is without effect
md their talk without meaning.
Time was, when papers We're few and
Door, that the Gazette occupied decently
air ground. It's early establishment; the
,ious professions Of its senior its daily and
weekly pray ers in the market places; its
'ft repeated CALCULATIONS thanking the Lord
hat they were not 80 great sinners as their
,eighbors, gave them, temporarily, some
position. But years, and their intense love
# good and bad currency, have unmasked
heir Hypocrisy, and they stand forth inthis
lay as-the people see them. The glory
# the Gazette has departed. 1t is fast ten
ling to oblivion, and unless it repents and
make some radical change in its course, it
will depart "unwept, unhonored and un-
unless the DEMOCRAT shall conde-
cend to write it epitaph
Their punishment has been in fact, most
lumiliating. At the last session Of the Leg
stature they found their level. Notwi,h |
tanding their boasted age, and the terrible
influence which they professed to have in
he Republican ranks, they were repudia
ed by the entire party, except the clique
rom Scott County, and the public printing,
which they begged for on bended knees.
vas given to one horse establishment at
owa City. After vast amount Of whin-
ng and groaning, they were dismissed from
he halls Of that immaculate legislature and
ent home in disgrace. That body consid-
red them too mean even for their purposes.
This becoming known, they were consd-
red just Independent and manly enough for
he use of wildcat bankers, and having lost
he public teat, they became dissolved in
heir favorite element Of toadyism. as natu-
ally as salt dissolves in water. Whatever
hey have to say upon any prominent ques-
ion is universally understood as being the
deas of those who own them for the time
'eing upon that particular question, and
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