Burlington free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1827-1865, 1859-04-22

II anybody is wasting wonder on the CIR
cumstancc that the labor Of the Times is so
inch -.ua with the FREE PkEss in the. "pill
controversy" which cur naighbor continues
to ventilat, with such pertinucity and zast,
we can account for it. Let us see how the
case stands. The Times published for several
weeks in its editorial columns q certain quack
medicine advertisement. 1t subsequently,
stated that this advertisement was a Filthy
and "abominable'' affair. 1t discontinued
1t one day, and pitched into the FREE Pres
for publishing an advertis !ment which the
Times declared to be as bad as its own favo-
rite, whose bad character it pretended only
just then to have discovered. This attack
by the way, it will be remembered, was in
the strictest line of logical argument, the To-
gician inftrring the innocence Of a selG-con-
ftssed party to an assassination, from the fact
that that party was has friend, and proring it
by the assertion that the FREE Press had
printed an Objectionable advertls ment -
Having often found tho Tins unreliable in
other things, we venturei to doubt its cxpa-
nation, aud were referred by that paper to
some worthy townsnen OF ours for proof OF its
truth. We inquired where our neis hbor direc-
ted US. md were informed that there was little
| or no truth in it-that the Editor Of the Times
made the contract for the pill advertisement
in pcrson, that he unquestionably understood
the cha ucter OF it at first as well as at last,
and that he discontinued it. as cur inform
ant believed, because he found he had taken
it at too low a price, and was sick OF his
bargain. We said nothing, however, If this
fresh evidence Of the weakness Of the foun-
dation On which the TINES inverted pyra-
mid Of sclfarrogated purity and virtue rests,
and we pass over in silence now some 9TH
cr instances Of similar hypocrisy in the same
quarter But is it surprising that we can
not accept the testimony as to the character
even of quack medicine, Of one whose
other statements, have proved to be to
draw it mild.) so utterly incorrect? OF
course every medicine advertised in the FREE
Pass may have an improper as we'll as
proper use. The proper use of each and all
is however, the only one advertised in our
columns When we learn. as we have yet 10
Do, that any announcement in our paper has
an immoral tendency, we shall. as it cannot
be necessary to assure our readers, promptly
and of choice exclude it. But the infUrma-
ton to that end must come through some
more reliable channel than the Burlington
Times And we shall at any rate be allowed
to decline the adironitions of the man who
has so recently committed tie very offence he
seeks to fasien on others VINO in former
years did SO extensive n business in much
worse class Of advertisements than thoss IN
question, even .supposing them TO be all lie
states them to be, "a remniscence which
we should not recall if we believed there WAS
any essential alteration for the better in his
tastes and charactet) whose columns are
now 50 frequently the vehicle for smutty Cd
itorial illusions and doujla cntendrcS, and
who in this matter has done, md is do'ng, ali
h c0nto advertise the rcry "rcnfdirS' h pro-
nou,.:es "abonuaqlh" a d ''loqth,ome"
We are drawn INTO this train of remark
by the persistent effort Of the 1inns
t. fix odlum upon us in this matter.
We have exercised now, as heretofore, consi-
dartLle furbearAnce in our treatment of the
Times, and we willingly make it welcome to
all it can make out Of the pill pother it
has stirred up.