The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1867-02-07
MANNERS AID MORALS OF JOUR.
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NALIsM.
Up>country people have IN ;des that great
cities are centres of refinement and polish, of
lady-Eke grace and gentlemanly courtesy
and that even temporary communication and
association with city gentry tends to improve
the manners, if not the morals, Of people
from the interior. Hence, ~ lsafn 10 look
TO the cities not only for the fashions in dress,
but for the fashions in manners, As WELL
Hence, we take it that Metropolitan news
paper, standing in the same relation TO the
up. country press, is expected to b the slass
Of fashion, and the model of manners, 70 the
benighted Journals Of the interios. Bat We
are OBTAINING our readers, and Withholding
the ennobling exhibition and example fur
nished by the city press for the imitation OF
its up-country admirers.
We expressed some views the other day in
reference to the tariff which Ailed
to meet the approval Of the Missouri
Republican, and thereupon it introduces the
expression of its dissent, in phrases Of sx-
quisits refinement, ~ follows
"some up-coun,ry BOBBY, who runs . nswspa-
per in keokuk," &C.,
and finally puts an utter extinguiahsr upon
Us in this gentle phraseology:
ssThe enlightened character of this advocate Of
high tariff 10 apparent, Of course, in his marvel
ously reliable statement that the United States in
ZION. Of doiiarsi His readers to be pitied i
they have other source Of information on thu
subjec, Of the tariff. Such ieaorones il disgrace
fui."
Now, without questioning for q momentth.
faultlessness of the manners of the Republi
can, as the exponent of metropolitan jour
nalism, we do take exception to its morals.
We quoted the other day paragraph Ia
ken from Senator Cattell's speech, and mad,
some comments on it. In our remarks inca
two Millions occurs, by misprint, instead o
smear two hundred millions" Bat As the fig
ures were printed correctly in the statemen
which we quoted, and on which we com
men,ed, no one could have been misled b
the mistake.
Yet the Republican makes this misprin
the excuse and occasion for denouncing tn
writer as BOBBY, guilty Of disgraceful ignc
rance, &C., &c.
Il is to be regretted that Journal Of th
size Of the Republican should be reduced ,
the necessity of resorting to petty misprir
IA order to magnify its own smartness at q
opponents expense.
If such thing had been done by sma
editor Of little sheet, we should have pre-
nounced il uncandid, dishonest and mean
but We suppose it must have been mere il
advertence in the Missouri Republican.
But aside from that; the Rpubiican misa,
prehends, or perverts, our position through
out. We are not in favor of prohibition
tariff, but of protective tariff. And we a,
in favor of raising the revenue necessary,
far as practicable, by duties on import
rather than by internal revenue dutie
And while we acknowledge very freely OF
ignorance Of the details Of the pending tar
bill, we End a great difference of opinic
amongst those who have the highest reput
ton for extensive and accurate informa,ic
on such questions, and cannot therefore su
render at discretion to the all embracir
knowledge Of the Metropolitan Editor Of Il
Repo6licdn.