The new Northwest. [volume] (Portland, Or.) 1871-1887, 1873-08-01

NOkeu dlldChS pOu Us as we anu Otnefs
considered him in honor bound to pub
lish with the same dispatch as the at
tacks.
This act Of our brother is wholly with
out precedent in professional ethics. It
is a most reprehensible trick, of which
we would not have imagined the editor
of the Oregonidn guilty had it not been
for the solieitous inquiries of friends,
which aroused our suspicious and caused
us to look over the files of his Weekly
edition. The course Of the OregORidR
spiked our own editorial guns, as we
believed the dmc1de honorable had
been made in that journal and of course
felt in courtesy bound to remain silent
in our own columns touching the mat
ter. None of the readers of the Weekly
saw our letter that was published I'm the
Daily in denial of the charge that We
were IAN apologist' for nameless
crimes, for more than a week after the
charge had been made, although the
letter was printed on the day following
the attack in the Daily, together with
an editorial announcement that the
Oregonidn had, in thus accusing us,
made "painful mistake"
Now, Brother Hill, the man who is
always parading his own virtue as be-
ing of a quality so far superior to that
of his friends and associates, but awak-
ems suspicion concerning his own rec
ord. We do not allege that you have
been guilty of social sins which you are
trying hard TO hide behind the cIamor
of your present outcry, but we do say
that your conduct awakens a suspicion
that your bawl of "stOp thief' means
much that you imagine does not appear
upon the surface. 1t pains US inexpres-
sibly to be driven to this conviction, but
men and women of good sense and
sound morals have just reason to doubt
the immaculate purity of man who
thinks it necessary TO proclaim his vir-
tue from day to day in the public prints
while trying to injure the reputation Of
ladies who see fit TO differ from him in
matters of public expediency. The vir-
tue that will not proclaim itself is not
considered the genuine article by good
judges. If the first ebullition Of our
righteous indignation that found its
way to paper after we discovered your
moral turpitude in transcending all
bounds Of professional ethics by attack
ing us in the Daily and Weekly Oregon
ian, and allowing a defense in the
Daily only, while Of course, leading US
to believe that you had acted fairly all
the way through, thus causing us, i'm
professional honor, to keep silent in our
own journal; we say il our first written
thoughts upon making this discovery
had been printed, you would have had
good reason to tremble in your boots.
But experience is making us wise and
merciful in these as well as other mat
tiers, consequently, the scolding we
should have given you, and which you
richly merit, resolves itself into this
exhortation: Do right in the future.
Atone for editorial trickery by honesty
and fair dealing hereafter. Remember
always that, though you may not have
committed one kind of sin, it is very
easy to prove, as above, that you have
committed Others for which the Great
Judge of all the earth will not hold you
guiltless. Remember to judge not, that
ye be not judged, and with what meas
ure ye mete it shall it be measured to you
again.
We don't want to quarrel with you
You have many good qualities Of mind
and heart, which, had you so badly
treated us year ago, we should il
wrath have lost sight of. And now, a
We in all kindness lay our journalistic
hand upon your editorial head, let III
say to you most earnestly, drop tn,
Pharisaical cant with which you ar,
disgracing the OregoRiGn. Say to Sen
ator Mitchell: "You have sinned and W,
are sorry, but do right in the future
repent, forsake, restore, as far as in yol
lieth, and we will stand by and aid you
AS we believe that no man sins beyon'
the reach of Gods abounding mercy
we will put your case in His hands
Shall mortal man be more just thai
God? Shall man be more true thar
his Maker?" Say to him: "You are We
young. You are brilliant, intellectual
sisId talented. Now prove yourself abl
to rise from the ashes of a misdirecte
life, and upon the altar Of ruined repu
tation erect a reparatiOn which shall b
immortal" Do this, o brother, an
you will live to see your name hOnore
in the land. Continue your presen
course and you shall fall by the way
Public sentiment, though rash at first
and sure to be exacting, always react
in favor of the prosecuted, even if tn
one so prosecuted be badly to blame
1t will do so in the case of Senate
Mitchell. Mark the prophecy. 1t grieve
us almost as badly to find in you de
signing intriguer against us, as
grieved and astonished us to find tina
Mr.. MitchelPs early record was bad
But We say to you as we say TO him, d
right in the future. Atone for the sin
Of the past by a noble restitution an
the people will honor you as a man
who, having acted dishonesty an
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