The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1870-03-17

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in the Assembly, in the absence or nor
voting If "a Of its members. ~s4
The Waulegan Gazette and its
Logic. aa
III a late number of the Waukogan Ga
yette there appeared an editorial with the
caption: "a LESSON FOR DIR. MCKINLEY
The Gazette quotes a brief article from
the TELEGRAPH the 18th ,ult.. In which
we spoke Of the Gazette's being disrespect
FIJI in calling the Woman's Suffrage Con
vention at Springfield "The Hen Conven
| Il H. 1t then launch s out in jnstifica
ion and iaudation ofitself, and in abust
oursclf personally. For the informa
ion ofour readers we will state that tht
'Tasette is published and ostensihly edited
~ James Y. Cory. Mr. Cory is the pro
,rietor of the Gazette. He, however, en-
Is,loys another to edit the paper, at aboui
aalf a living compensation. This real ed
tor is a democrat, and to make up foi
The deficiency of his salary, writes for 9th
papers-mainly democratic, as being
aiore in accordance with his sentiments
md feelings. But, Mr.. Cory's keeping y
Loveridge to act the savage or the dove
FOR him, does not relieve him from
fe#
responsibility for what appears in the Ga
sette. IF, however, he derives any salts
faction from the personal abuse of our
.ftf, we shall not try to deprive him OF
hat satisfaction. We shall let that part
Of his Lesson tor Dr. Mckinley" pass
without farther notice.
Onr present purpose is mainly to no
tice the logic of the Gazette. We quote
from the Lesson for DR.. Mckinley: II
our venerable contemporary had sufficient
Iisure to read his exchanges, and his
time permitted him to attend to news
matters, or tpanything but pills and poetry,
he would know that the phrase . Hen Con
vsntion' had been repeatedly applied to
the gatherings to which we referred y
Well, suppose we did know it, would our
knowing it make the editorial of the Ca
zette any the less disrespectful? Admit
that the phrase Hen Convention has
been applied to such gatherings before
does that make the Gazette's applying it
to them again any the less disrespectful ?
According to he logic of the Gazette it
would. Let US apply the Gazettes logic.
Suppose the editor of the Gazette to be a
member of seine church in Waukegan,
and few newspapers should call that
church the "Debauchee Church" Ac-
cording to the Gazette, other papers
would be justified in calling that church
the "Debauchee Church." on the ground
that the phrase had been applied to that
church before. Some called Jesus a gut-
on, a wine bibber, and friend of publ
cans and sinners. According to the logic
of the Gazette, others would be justified
in calling him so too. Garry out the log
ic Of the Gazstte, and it is only necessary
for any phrase expressive of disrespect
and odium to be applied to convention
or person, to make it all right to apply
the same phrase again. And, by parity
of reasoning and the same logic, any act
-perfidy, perjury, theft, adultery, muir
der-becomes right by its having been
performed sufficient number of times
before, particularly, if those performing
the act are of the same way Of thinking
with the Gazette
1t only remains for the Gazette to point
out to its readers the number of times an
act, wrong in ITSELF has to be performed,
to make it right for tito be performed
again. This need not necessarily be done
IN another Lesson for DR.. Mckinley. Nor
need thesGazette, in another lesson, apply
any moro disrespectful and odious cpl
thets to "Mothers Livermore, Stanton,
Bradwell, or amy Of that bevy Of tough
old termagants who claim to be par ep-
cet5enc0 the friends of the cause of Woman
Suffrage" 1t might be al a loss to find
any more opprobrious epithets it has not
already used, that has been applied by
others. Wewill only add that, however
much we may prize lessons given us by the
press generally, in all seriousness and
conscientiousness, we would ask to be alb
solved from the teaching of the Gazette's
"Lesson for DR.. Mckinley" M