New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1867-02-11
DEMOCRATIC JOURNALISM

We think it will be generally agIeed that
! the Democratic party has not been fortunate
in it's journals, especially in this City. Even
| in It's palmy days. it owed so little TO then
! championship that leader Of the party wa.
| justified in declaring that it could get on bet
| ter without than with newspaper support
| With several thousand grog-shOps IN full blast
| day and night, Sundays included, and count
less gaming houses and darker dens serving like
wise Us neutrality-suspicious. for the party whose
principles and sympathics tend TO secure legal
impuniy TO every form of cyil-dOng that
achieves its ends without resort to positive
violence or the more fragrant forms Of fraud
that party might well afford TO dispense alto
gctheF with journalistic advocacy. Hence, the
weakness Of its oraclcs has never seemed to de-
tract from its material strength aud the trans
formation of The Erening Post from Jealous
advocate to a hating adversary of its doctrines
and its candidates has been followed by n de-
cided agSrayation OF its average maioritics.
The IOid-iis latest organ-has eyinced de-
cided smaItness without achieving either influ-
ence or pecuniary success. Its more glazing
faults are a shrewisb temper and cOnstitu-
tional inability to realize that any one can re-
~
fool. Radicalism, in,its view, is a cloak worn
by specious hypOcrtes to cover the insertion of
their right hands into other mems pockets. Is
it a wonder that smartnesS so shallow AZ this
should utterly fail to get onP
Let us cite a few examples Of its sap-dash
mode OF dispatchinG advcrsarics by simply mis-
cOnceiving and misreprcsenting their positions
THE TRIBUNE had objected to the proposed
regulation Of "the Social Evil among us, as
viciously conceived and sure to do more harm
than good. We objected to this sO-called rcgu-
latiOn, that it aimed at protecting the lewd
against those maladies wherewith God has seen
fit TO punish their transgrcssions of His law of
sexual purity; protection which we deemed
at once impossible and, in the larger view, I'M
desirable. The general effect Of such rcgua-
ton would be to delude the lecherous with the
notion that they could sin and somehow escape
the penalty of transgression, which ia in
defiance of fundamental law Of the universe.
/ This The World peryert6 as follows:
"THE TRIBUNE proclams ils reliance upon disease
the only check upon eChery"
The truth is nothing like this. We hold
prostitution for hire TO be one of the most fla
grant crimes against society, aud heartily APP
prove all the laws whereby it is sought to be
suppressed and punished We earnestly wish
they were more stringent and far more eff
cicnt. We hope never to live in a community
where the keeping OF a house of ill-Game is
not forbidden and punished by law And in
the very article whereon Tie World is COM
menting we urged a systematic religious
and intellectual crusade for the diliu-
sion among the young of such moral and
physiOiOgic truth as will make them shun
and abhor RIGHTEOUSNESS. Yet The World di-
lates through column on its false assumption
here exposed; and actually quotes us as favor
ing a regulated Liquor Traffic! when the regu
lation we should insist ON, if we could have
our own way, would confine that traffic to the
drug-stOres and place it under all the re-
straints and precautions which govern the dis
pensatOn of other poisons We do our best to
have every grog-shOp closed at midnight;
others must bear the responsibility OF their
being reOpened next morning.
The World thinks ii cOnfutes, or at least
confronts, our Protective philosophy by such
statements as these:
"The material Woll VAS framed by iis allgise Author