New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1871-05-10


shared by NJ Maglscal, the enlightened ana
able Minister who has just taken leave Oh our
Government to enter upon the duties OF u
more exalted station at the seat OF his own.
NJ. Mariscal is profound believer IN the des-
TIMES of Mexico, and his devotion to her well
fare promp5s him to regard and honor this
country AS her truest and most powerful
friend We predict for him an ilustrouS
career and an caviablc renown.
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FREE TRADE H1RMONIES IN CHICAGO
What has happened to the Garden City
What strange blast has blown over Lake
Michigan s0uring the milk OF pastoral KIND
ness in the breasts of lis peOpicP We have
hitherto known it only as the moral oasis in
the Western Wilderness the spot where the
Millennium has already arrived for a trial trip !;
where matrimony is an assurance of bliss be-
cause five minutes misunderstanding Is
promptly cured by divorce where the lconinc
Times has lam down with the lamb-lil;e Tribune
and the infant Free Trade League doth lead
them But d dlscOrdant note has Just burst
cut amid these millennal harmonies. In an
evil hour our amiable namesake happened to
allude to The Times as IA Dlackmaller. The
fact is 40 universally known that nobody
ever dreamed that there was any 0ifense IN
mentioning it-any more than 10 call Aristidcs
Just, or Jay Gould slippery. But the expert
cnce of both of these worthless has shown
that the most opposite epithets pail at
last by constant iteration, and 80 tins Editor
got tired of being called blackmailer at the
exact moment when his eye lighted upon the
paragraph to that effect in the truth-reportlnS
Tribune. He let the sun go down on MS
wrath: but that did not mend matters lie
crew angrier "a the evening shades prevailed,
and at last came to the conclusion to post
the Editor of The Tribune. Hitherto Chica'
90 journalists have been noted for OBJ
serving the amenities of newspaper life
with almost bgOted strictness. When
they are friendly they are eifuslvcly COM
plimentary to each other, and even when they
are wroth, they avoid degrading personalities
and merely refer 10 the eStranged cotem-
porary as the bcastly Smut-machine when
"exhales It's nOiSOme vapOTs IN such street"
a phrase which sufficiently marks out the
pcccant Journal to public reprObatOn, and does
not prevent its editor and his censor from
drinking the cock tail of peace together
when they meet at the fremont House
bar. But the Editor of The Times Ill his
chOler scOrned the cOmmendable restraints OF
Chicago courtesy He determined to post"
the Editor of The Tribune by name. This
is an operation often mysteriously referred to
by high toned gentlemen in the South, but
rarely executed, as the threatened subject
usually prevents the catastrophe by previously
evisGerating the proposed poster. 1t exercises
AS powerful and vague an influence OveI the
imaginations of " gentlemen of spirit" as the
threat of Naming a member on the floor ex-
erts in the House of Commons. what would
.'happcn if you Named member ?" asked an
inauisitive philosopher of a recent Speaker.
" God only knows I" replied the awe-struck
dignitary, aghast at the bare possibility. Mr..
Storey posted" Mr.. White, and we nope he
liked the way his leading column looked when
he had done it, This is the mess he made of
it:
"Mr Horace White the responsible Editor of The Chs
eago Tribune The Editor OF The Times has hitherto been
led 10 believe Mr. Horace white TO be decent per-
than be esteemed TO be by the generality Of peo-
pie and has treated him such in journalistic and
personal relations. The Editor Of The Times Is i'm
PEELED acknowledge his and Is also impeed to
denouncc Mr. Horace white a lying scoundre and
this language personally MT Horace White, aud posts
it upon his Infamous forehead with the adhcsyeness OF
sticking plaster."
The first thing that strikes the reader of
this elegant extract ia that the writer, while
discarding the decency of periphrase for the
Editor of The Tribune reserves il for the
Editor of The Times. Was this done under
the impression that, bad IA the character Of
The Times was, that of its Editor was worse !!
that although the abuse of The Times could de
no harm, that of Wilbur F. Storey was a
positive advantage 1t is hard to imagine q
provOcation which would thaw the JrapDe blood
of the young philosopher who so mIsrules our
h0mOnym in Chicago. 1t is very certain that
the calm fluid in his veins, which even the
tariff on plg-ron cannot warm to simmer,
will never boil at being called vulgar names
by a man who has been sued and kicked and
hOrsewhipped in vain for endless ISLANDERS.
IL is thousand pities that when a man IA
angry enough 10 tell the truth of his enemy
he is almost always so beside himself that he
forgets what the truth il. There are plenty
OF things that could be said against the pres
cnt management of The Chicago Tribune, with
out deviating from or forcing the facts. But
Mr. Storey wastes good aud genuine article
of anger by obrieking three charges against
,Mr"Wlite. all Of which are untrue. He il an
ind aeIept politician and uaWlae editor; but he