North Iowa times. [volume] (McGregor, Iowa) 1867-current, 1867-08-07

From DEBORAH.
A thin-spaccd visit to the city of the
Iowa Norsc-men,ssa few days since, has
caused the writing of the following sensi-
Die nonsense We like such letters be-
cause they are not prepared, ixed-up, rig
ged, trimmed, dressed, scented and polish
cd for publication. The writer will notice
that some Of the personals are left out the
parties referred to are revealing in the
sweets of general social contemplated we
leave them to their enjoyment. We think
Decorah is Il bully city as we'll as a 'jolly"
one, but there is lot Of truth in what
Quill writes in relation to its present 10
cation and possible future
' DEBORAH, Aug. 18th, '67.
COLONEL & JOHN :-Since your visit, we
have had nothing to break the monotonous
routine of everyday life, save an occasion
al dog fight, a scrub trot, or something
equally ridiculous. This place seems to
me.to be closed entirely from the outer
world. We have our merchants, banks,
saloons, &c., which, in measure, give it a
sort of metropolitan appearance and bust
ness tone. On the other hand, we never
hear the clang of engines, the shrill whis-
tie of the river steamer or the clear echo
of the locomotive. All these things have
a tendency to relieve the dullness of any
place, no matter where. One who has
been accustomed to the great facilities that
a river and railroad city affords, feels lost
when in place like DEBORAH, with moth
ing but the numbering along of an old
stage coach substituted for the locomotive
and steamer. @ .sss s.
Before coming here was made to be-
licve that Decorah was almost Paradise.
| That it was the beau ideal of an inland
oity Well, perhaps 1t is. Quten sabe p
| do not know that it is closely allied to
Cincinnati or Philadelphia in that respect,
| Tor even North McGregor.) 1t is very
"pretty'' country town. Nothing more.
Should ever a railroad come here it will
have the effect of doing it a great deal oil
good or an immense amount of harm.
think it will be the latter. TO suppose for
u moment that a railroad would stop here,
in ease there should ever he one built, is
the greatest nonsense in the world. For
instance take all the ''cities'' on the Du
buque and Sioux City railroad. They
amount to nothing, only as depot for far
mers. Cities do not thrive as well when
located distant from the seaboard, unless
they are hundreds of miles apart. 1t il
ail folly to talk of building a city every
forty or fifty miles throughout the West
with nothing to support them but farmer.
and railroads. There has got to be some
thing else-'' Nariyation.' q am forget
ting myself, my nonsense amounts to moth
ing also.) My intention in writing you
was to give you Il sort ofan idea in regard
and about different newspapers, editor.
and publishers in general They amount
to nothing, 1.-THE ideos mean but in thu
meantime it will not prevent me from Civ
ing them to you. The way look at the
matter is this: Editors are divided into
classes, viz :: the gentlemanly, the ''yirtu
GUS" and the rblackguard editor. Thi.
country is cursed with too many of til,
last named. Since became a jour-,
have been more or less with all grades
From the downy-faced youth to the silver
haired veteran of the press among whom
have seen the poet, the sage, the wit, tn
blackguard and the MAN. You have il
your own city a sample of the. Il. G. Boil
are narrow minded, one-idea'd men. Moth
ing is right but that which they do; al
theories wrong but theirs. From thci
"expansive' brains emanates great Low,
for ''down-trodden'' mankind. Yet, a love-
Of real Liberty is denounced in the nam,
of patriotism speak only of u class
not of individual men. 4 Papers like til,
Chicago Times and n. Y. Herald arc sen
sational, rape-y, diyorce-y; elope-y--aboun
ding in reports of cases Of domestic infe
Lefty but do you not think that such re
ports tend to the cultivation of the crimes
or errors which are universally condemn
ed ? Years ago it was cardinal to exclude
oil such publications. Now it is different
In the language of the great moral ide;
party, "this is Progressive agc,'' and O
course, blackguard-ism has progressed al
SO. hone the time will come when i
will be penal to admit minds so gross t.
fill the editorial chairs of the country bu
for that time we must wait. This would
be an infringement on the freedom of thu
press" but some kinds of freedom arr
a kind of nuisance which would abate
The freedom to accept five, or five hundred
dollars for the insertion of a scandal arti
Gle about a wife or daughter of a neigh
Dor, is little coarser moral point of view
than am capable of seeing. Draggin.
private difficulties into public places FIJI
the delectation of scandalmongers is no
the proper province Of newspapers, ant
the sooner the public frown down such eff
forts to make money out of character, tn,
sooner they will prevent the shafts of sor
row from possibly reaching their owl
homes. n
| But you are growing tired of me.
r.E Quill.
A Letter. As lHnt -,.s-.s E.as ,.-4
We like lettcrs-not Belle Lettrcs, tho
We would be unmanly not to confess to thu
belle mart of the commentator. Folk