Saint Paul weekly Minnesotian., 1859-05-28
Light! Light! More Lisht!!!

Light! Light! More LiSht!!
There is country north Of us where the
night lasts sac months-but at length the day
comes! There is a newspaper in our city
which for six years has wallowed and tumbled
in mire and darkness, but at last the lignt
breaks in upon it For what may we not
expect resurrection and regeneration after
that?
The Pioneer & Democrat Of Saturday ex-
hibits the conductors of that paper on the
stool of repentance. They describe for our
edification what they were in the past, and
what they intend to be in the future. They
first " hold the lirror up to nature" in one
of the most admirably painted self-portraits,
known since the day when Hogarth practi-
sing before looking glass gave the world a
delineation of his own face. Who will not
recognize in the following the very features o1
the Pioneer & Democrat?
"a party organ is paper whose fundamental
idea is party support, without reference to truth
of doctrine or propriety of policy; which invests
each temporary authority with immaculate Judg-
ment and unappealable power; which blindly fol-
lows even when blindly led; with which inquiry
is impatience, and protestation crime; whose con
ductors are retailers of opinions, doctrines, and
policies, manufactured by other men, for DISPOSE
ton in lots to suit the market or to meet the ext
gencies of current needs; whose God IS the man
in office, and whose Devil is the man who will not
worship him which reveals neither the strength
of individuality nor the energy of conviction; /;
which is automatic in all things and manlike In
nothieg; and which. therefore, enjoys neither in
fuence among its partizaps nor respect among its
opponents. This is the party organ"
"a party organ is paper whose funda-
mental idea is party support without refer
ence to truth of doctrine or propriety of poll
cy."' That is to say, paper that derives
about $40, 900 per annum from the party,
ana tnen, Win mtelilgence to know better,
lends itself to advancing every error and wrong
advocated by that party! Scion when asked
if he had given his people the best laws, said
"No-but the best they would accept" 1t
is so with the socalled Democratic party. tad,
vancing public sentiment will not permit it to
urge upon the public the doc.ril " Democ'
| racy as understood at Washingt: in the
south, it is the duty of such papers as
the Pioneer, to administer Democracy in the
northwest in Homeopathic doses, and accom-
panied by tonics to restify the uneasy public
stomach.
"Whose fundamental idea is party sup
port" What but party support enabled ths
Pioneer to obtain the contract for the State
Printing, while the MINNEsoTIAN had put in (
loaser bid? Had the Democratic State Aud
itor entertained notions upon "party organs
similar to those now promulgated by the Pho
neer, the result would have been. different
But alas /! the external professions of the De
mocracy do not always correspond with thei
internal acts.
"WhOse conductors are retailers of opin
ions, doctrines and policies, manufactured b,
other men, for disposition in lots to suit tn
market or to meet the exigencieS of curren
needs"
The Pioneer in writing that sentence evi
IDENTIFY had in its memory the admirable ex
preston of Mayor BRIsBIN about the power
full influence of the "human necessity for dali
bread" Some ideas stick. But who tina
has watched the course of the Pioneer ca,
read it and without smile, think of the oil
Rice and Olmstead contest, in which the P
oneer, at the eleventh hour, submissive to tn
exigencies of current needs turned right abou
face,-deserting Olmstead and in twinklin,
lending itself to the ''red headed Winnebago
as demagogue ''our Jim rendered our honore'
Senator
And how adm. ably does this one sentenc
sketch the me ibre of tho Pioneers DO
tical leader: Revealing neither the strength o
individuals, nor the energy of conviction.
The Pioneers conscience has evidently beer
uneasy of late, and it gives us in that sen
tence its secret appre citation of itself.
But the most entertaining part of the who'll
article is the manner in which the oneer, af
ter entering its eleventh year, Discovers
not only the error of It's past ways but that
there are such things in the world as Truth
Honor and Manhood. 1t announces the dis
covered with a prodigious cackle! We ar,
forcibly reminded of the old story of the Chi
nese and the hogs. 1t seems that in old time.
in China, hogs were kept about the houses o
the people, much as we keep dogs, and wer,
not used as an article of food, the Chinese be
ing utterly ignorant of their excellent edibl,
qualities. 1t so chanced however that an un
fortunate Chinaman's house took fire ant
was burnt to the ground, and in it was des
troyed pet hog. The sympathising neigh
borhood collected to condole with the poo
man and while walking around the ruins
their nostrils were saluted by the delicious fra
GRANGE for which roast pig is in every country
lis justly celebrated. The Celestals had nev
er before inhaled anything so tempting; they
snuffed and smiled and licked their chops anG
peeped and peered until they discovered the
roasted porker among the embers; t...ey ex
amined it, tasted it, devoured it and fought
over the bones Roast pig become the talk
of the neighborhood, and that night house
was fred and the next morning the whole
country assembled to eat the pig. The mex
night half dozen tenements were in blaze
the next night the whole country was illumi
mated by the light of consuming homesteads
in few days the military were called out t.