The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1869-12-13
SPIRIT OF THE PRESS.
Editorial Opinions of the Leading Journals
Upon Current Topics Compiled Every
Day for the Evening Telegraph.

From the N Y. Tribune.

slnce our late mlsfortunes, To pay Miss Knag
great deal of money for having her name in
the business" and this observation, intended
to soften the hard heart of Mr. Ralph
Niokleby, has often come into our mind as we
have perused the exquisite contributions of
Mr. George Francis Train to the World But
now that we are exactly informed how much
Mr. Train did, and how little he got for doing
it, we find the commiseration which we felt
for the World suddenly transferred to the
account of Mr. George Francis Train. We
knew that MIR. Trains Irish letters and des-
patches were of great value, but we had no
idea that there were so many of them-a fact
which would have been severely impressed
npon our wearied mind if we had felt it
duty to read them, and had done that duty
without the least regard for probable conse-
quenoes, cerebral or stomachic. Really we
have not done the hero of the Irish bastile
full justice He is not merely brilliant, but
prolific. He actually furnished 1O2 columns
of letters and speeches and reports, which he
expected to get 1926 per column for writing,
but didn't. He actually paid out of his
own pocket the sum of $3.50 for foreign
postage and cable dispatches. His bill
against the World, therefore, amounts to S270O
less the amount of an order which he gave for
$50 to S. j. Meany $50 furnish him with
pocket money on landing from the British
Bastile." Mr.. Train publishes the full
account, and Mr.. Train is a man of CONNER
cial accuracy. The balance due to him he has
requested the proprietor of the W0rld to pay
to Miss Susan b. Anthony, the whole sum
being magnanimously and chivalrously de-
voted ito the emancipation of woman" We
fear that MIR. Train has been altogether too
confding. At any rate, we do not see how the
monep is to do the female cause any good
until the World pays it over; and whenever
Miss Anthony has received the cash, we hope
that she will at once communicate to us
the encouraging fact that we may also reveal
the pleasing circumstance to an astonished
community. Such great events should
have a metropolitan promulgation. Mean
while the full extent of the Worlds
obligation to Mr.. Train has not
been fully stated. He solemnly declares that
the ungrateful newspaper obtained 10000
subscribers "on account of his connec- new
tion with it, but we fear that his enthusiasm
has led him into an error. If the World
should rejoin that it has lost 10000 subscri-
bers by reason of it's publication of Mr.
Trains letters and dispatches, and should
make strong affidavit to that effect, we con-
fess that we should be puzzled which to be-
lieve-Mr. Train or the W0Tld-and perhaps
we might feel obliged, in strict equity, to
compromise the matter by believingneitherM Mr..
Train (who has an imagination Of his OWN or
the W0rtd to which journal the loss of IL, 900
subscribers, or the hall of that number,
might prove mortal. The painful fact is that
Miss Anthony hasn't very pleasant prospect
of getting the money, which thus far is
merely one of G.. T. T. 8 brilliant financial
distractions. We wish that we were as sure
of receiving as the ReoOJUtiOn is of not re-
ceiving that neat and convenient sum.
Mr.. Train, being excited by his injuries at
the hands of the World, has sent us a very
long letter, with the request that we will find
place for it in our columns; and should we
decline to print it, Mr.. Train asks us to send
it back to his Private Secretary at some hotel
out VEST but really after his dreadful ex-
serience with the World, in respect of post
age, we think that he should be more careful
either of our stamps or his own. The main
facts in Mr.. Trains letter are: 1st. That he
was at the Dunlap House, Jacksonville, ILL.,,
when he wrote it. I'd. That he used q lead
pencil in writing it, which is nearly fatal to
copy in this Office. Sd. That he has $3.50
engagements ahead" 4th. That che has
travelled 238 miles in 24S hours" 9TH That
the telegraph, while it reports everything
else about him, neglects to mention his ''edu-
cation morality, and religion, and ''sneers
at man who practices what he breaches. "
Does Mr.. George Francis practice what
he breaches? If SO, he must
go through some extraordinary antics,
for a nobler rhetorical gymnast does
not add to the noise of this most noisy world.
We have never been able to imagine him
upon the platform without wealth of gesture,
without the most spasmodic action of the
arms, without convulsive movements of the
legs, without disheveled locks, without fire
cleaning from his eyes, without short but
rapid pedestrian excursions up and down the
stage, and without a vocal energy completely
Boanergesian. Sometimes we have fanced
Mr.. Train seventeen feet high, and with the
front of Jove himself. He roars. He
hghtens. He let's off thunderbolts. He sug-
gests .Stromboli, Vesuvius, Cotopaxi. He is
all that is loud, and he is all that is igneous
His very pidniSsimO is an impressive rumble,
as ifa revolution were going on in his stomach
Never tell us 1t cannot be that she practices
what he preaches"-at least, not in public,
though he may have frightened the ladies OF
the ReDoI1ItiOn dreadfully in private life.
MIR Train takes pains to inform us tha
''full houses meet him everywhere in hi
character of a lunatic and mountebank," al
well as of "a fool and "a humbug." Thu
other day he addressed tho Chicago Chambe
of Commerce ''for an hour and half, ," ant
delighted everybody. When he was in tn
land of the Mormons he was not SO fortunate
Amelia, the favorite wife of Brigham Young
did not admire him. Neither does Miss Susa
b Anthony. 1t will always be to us a wonde
that man of such uncommon genius and c
an imagination so fertile, of such remarkabl
eloquence, and of a person so attractive
should be so little favorite with the ladie
Perhaps it is because he roars too loud
Our earnest advice to him is to mitigate h
thunder.
''You seem to be pleased, " writes Mr. Trai
to u.s. sat the criticisms of the Western pres
concerning himself, Pleased pray what pl
it into Mr. Trains head that we were please