Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1873-07-24
THE LONDON PRESS.
MIR. Waterson Shows UpAnother English
al Fraud.

The LUNDON PRESS.
MIR. w aterson Shows u Another English |
AL Fraud.
This. highfalutin braggadocio finds
constant expression under all sorts of |
varying forms in the press of London, |
which is at once representative Of the
conventional British ass and an example |
Of the material well-being enjoyed by
the better class of Englishmen Tell an
Englishman he can't ride and he will
laugh at you. Yet he hobs up and down
in his saddle like Jack-in-the-box Tell
him the Times is a wretched old make
believe, and he will consider it ma
tional insult; but that is just what the
Times is. ysr @
have been reading this stately COM
pound of poppy-cock every morning now
for three weeks, having plenty Of time
to wade through it, and must say that
of all the illustrations of CANNON and
presumption furnished by the fogyism
of England, it is the most transparent
and absurd It resembles, as far as it
resembles anything, one of those fat,
well-dressed buffers whom you will meet
at any of the great houses in Park lane,
all insolence and breeches but, where
as here is fitness in the buffers obesi-
ty and swagger, the rotund deficiency
of the Times is a constant affront to
good manners, common sense and or
binary intelligence. The Times is print
ed on faultless paper, IN large, clear
type and to this extent it is worthy of
imitation. It has another virtue, also,
which is still higher and rarer-it does
not belong to the advertiser; and is, on
the whole, to be trusted in small mat
ters Like the sleek butler in Park
lane, it will neither lie nor steal for the
rabble It is only to be reached and
overcome by the remunerative demands
of the nobility. Nor is there any occa-
sion to quarrel with its decency. Its
cleanliness is undeniable But when it
| sets up for the first journal in the world,
and by the grace of this pretense di-
: vides its supercilious twaddle into two
parts, that which is tediously oracula1
and that which is helplessly silent, one
) is disposed to look for some solid inter
nal evidence of power. Thus moved tc
| seek, he will fail to find. To-day's
| Times is, like yesterdays Times, a mess
of inadequate gable about European
, politics, repetition of last weeks edi
? torial fatulencies, few scraps OF de
u sultory and unimportant information, ;
: line or two from America concerning tn,
y cotton crop and the Modocs, and vas
e and valuable array of crisp and spark
: ling advertising matter. You will no
l. catch a CLEAN of sunshine or ray O
! hunor in the Times during a twelve
month It is habitually belated wit
!. its news. Written in feeble and finishe
=" English it is; but that is all. Wit
faultless Typography, its make up
n a bungle of bad taste and framework
er with prodigious resources, it has neithe
6 variety nor enterprise. Why is it
D. power in the land? Because it is a rel
k resentative of that slow-moving, o,
j. eyed, upper and middle-class Bourbon
Of stuck its head behind the rotten woode
he walls of England, refusing to bulge OIL
IN of sheer perversity, and hating progre:
s, because it sees and knows that there
r good in it. The Times, however,
v losing, slowly but surely, its infuent
< with it's circulation. 1t is already e,
he ceedea by the Telegraph, and viii pre-
er emily be equaled by the NeUs.
lie Its competitors, the Telegraph an
Id the NeUs, are brighter. But they a
he miserably behind the American journa
ed in everything except their moderate
es and culture, and certain good faith
Id the matter of advertising, which the
We have found profitable, and which evel
y, newspaper that adopts it Will find
O. equally So The Telegraph is certain
to better written than the New York He
m aid, but it is neither so brilliant nor
i'd enterprising as the New York 1ribua
IS The press of London is certainly mut
to behind the press of New York, Chicae
lie and Cincinnati in enterprise and
its power. It is decent, but dull, al
ed strong only as it represents and illu
es trates the conventional weakness of Il
ed English character. Cor. Lou
Is UiLle Courier Journal.