Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1870-03-19
The Tribune Flies to the Rescue.

new CONVEX; in its defense of the Tableau
performance given in aid Of the Episcopa
church, few evenings ago. With tho
maignity of narrow.minded bigotry, the
writer iDsinuates that the charge for adj
mission to the show" Influenced US to con.
denim several features in our comments
, last week. We affirm that we censure
nothing we did not honestly believe to be
not only out of place, but in very bad
taste, to say the least. 1t is the right and
duty of public journalist to express an
opinion upon all matters affecting the pub.
lie interest. and we mean to discharge that
duty as conscience may direct. We are
far from believing that because an act may
lie sanctioned by the church it must be
right Common sense should direct pub
lie opinion. instead of the prccept and cx-
ample Of few who desire to % lead" or eff.
feet sensation. When the Bible, the
churches, the clergy and the wellbeing of
society, were assa!cd by such modern
reformers as DcWolfc or Todd. We did not
hesitate to defend. to the best of our abili-
tv. those sacred trusts. No less now should
we refrain from as apparent duty. when
the church itself appears to sanction the
frivelities and vanitcs of life. If we err,
it is an error of judgment alone.
The Tribune says we were specially hor-
rifed that "a darkcy should stand within a
two feet Of a young lady for the space of a
minute, while their faces were seen at diff
ierent openings Of a curtain, though none
but a fault-6nder could see harm therein"
We alluded to this exhibition as an mpro-
priety, without intimatng there might be
any direct harm in it, although, under the
circumstances, we believe we could even
sustain that point in the argument, if nee
essary. 1t will be observed how ingcni-
ously the Tribune attempts to swecten
the nauscatiny dose, against its better
judgment, by placing stress upon the fact
that the darkcy stood full two feet off and
the exhibition lasted onlya minute. Ifthere
was no improperly in thus grouping the
races " a minute there could be none in
an hour, week, a month, or any indefinite
period. If our Republican friends choose
to form such associations, it may be their
own affair, but it will scarcely be claimed
that they have right to offend the sensi-
bilities of those who differ with them in
opinion or to force lessons in Radical ethics
upon their children.
Our contemporary closes with the follow
ing parting shot:
Thsoclassing Of tableaus gotten up by a
few ladies with theatricals merely shows that
our good Democratic editor is about as green
as most school-boys not yet in their teens"
How very cunning our opponent is, to
be sure. How anxious to impress the
reader that the tableaux were the work of
a few of the weaker SEX" torendcr more
outrageous the criticisms of great coarse
man. But this presumption is unfair.
The tableaux criticised by us were solely
and exclusively devised by gentleman of
the party, and not the ladies, or fiw Ia
dies, as the Tribune suggests. Aud in
conclusion, we must express our thanks to
the Tribune for entering the plea of ex-
treme verdancy as an excuse for our" class
ing tableaus gotten up by few ladies with
theatrcas." We did so dcsignedly, being
unable to distinguish any difference be-
tween twecdlcdum and tweedledce, simply
because one was patrouizcd by the church
and the other was not.
We have mere request to add, and that
is that our contemporary learn to spell the
plural of tableau correctly before having
anything more to say in relation to the
matter.
Ne The Walla Wala Statesman says
that letter received by gentleman of
that county from Jay Cooke states that
ground was broke on the North Pacific
Railroad on the 18th ult., at the crossing
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