The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1869-09-30
An Ungentlem anly Attack.

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changed owners, aud to the astonishment
of every body, our old and respected towns
man, Fred Borcherdt, became the owner
and managing responsible editor of the
concern The best friends of the old man
looked upon the enterprise in which he had
embarked, as one in which he would net
succeed From life of comp rative ease,
and thoughtless independence, he, in his
old age, harnessed himself into a tread
fower, which, from day to day keeps the
physical and mental powers of man, tire
lessly and remorseessly at work. And this,
father Borcherdt, has shown that be can
not endure, and at the same time calmly
meet and return the blows Of adversity.
Again his editorial career has. .demonst-a-
ted, the fact, that he does not know how
to conduct q newspaper. This verdict is
not our verdict alone 1t is the unanimous
opinion of every body, and we believe Mr..
Borcherat knows it himself But there
| are certain things which be should know,
and which he cannot be excused for not
knowing. lie should know better than to
|. get mad He should know that christian
gentleman never throws unchristian and
ungentlemanly missiles at any one. He
should know better than to abuse his
friends. But towering high above all these,
he should know better than to use his print
ing press, as an engine with which, to at
tempt to satiate purely personal private
spite.
We refer to the attack which appeared
in the Tribune last week, against Mr..
Fuesscnich, which we publish in another
column.
This ungenteman attack, couchcd in the
most ungentlemanly and undignifed Ian
gage, is made by the Tribune upon Mr.. L.
because he gave the county printing from
his office to this paper also charging Mr.
f. with having been bought up by US, for
consideration.
Now, as far as we are concerned, we care
nothing about the crazy, libelIious, foolish
charge. But in justice to Mr. Fuessenich,
! we pronounce the charge malicious false
hood We never even asked Mr.. Fuessen
ich to give the tax list to the PILOT He
gave it to US because we had rever in3ulted
and abused him and his friends. Because
we had never denounced, coHdcmncd and
igmatized the social customs Of q grea.
majority Of the German population Of the
county, and advised them to return to
Germany, if they could not adopt Puritan
insult our village officers for doing that
which every man admits was done IN good
/ faith, and for the best interests of the vii
lage. Because the PILOT has never allow
ed its columns to be filed with bigotcd as
saults upon tho sincere religious opinions
OF large class Of our citizens And be
cause the Tribune HAS done all these
things- has denounced Mr. Fuessenich S
socia! customs, as "ilmmral" and loaf
erish, T" and his religious as hellsh, mur-
derous, Sc, it has received its merited
| don't get mad at us, we are not at you.
You have an elephant on your hands, III
the shape of a newspaper-so have we,
but with this difference, we contro! ours
Yours has broken loose, and is smashing
your party all to pieces We are sorry for
you personally, but politically we are glad
of it. Some day, ifyou will call upon US pr
vately, I'VE wiirevcal the round unvarnsh
ed tale of our whole course of love-what
drugs, what charms, what conjuration, and
| what mighty magic We won your tax list
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