Wilmington daily gazette., 1873-11-12
Incorporate Language and Unjust
lnstnuatlons.

Without intending TO lecture any one We feel il
due to ourseif as well as 10 the position OF the
press generally to call attention 10 q habit thai
seems wrong and yet is, we are told, approved in
many unthinking circles
The use Of intemperstc language and offensive
illusions is wholly wrong, and cannot be justified
or honorablY accounted for in the great majority
Of cases. That provoking evils exist will Of
course be admitted; but is it not better to bea'
with them than to sIandcr a whole body Of men,
or a class OF merchants tradesmen, for the acts
of one person the carelessness of establish
meBtr We think so hut there arc cases where
it will not do to delay before the oense stated
And, therefore, believe it is better to name the
party interested than to lay the charge at the door
Of a dozen or twenty persons, only one of whom
could probably have been guilty Of the neglect q
the offense, of whatever nature. A recent num-
Der OF Every EreHiug contains an editorial article
from which these words were quoted and COM
mented upon "the Board Of Education contains
some druHkards and some fools, and tiorc ought
TO be some check Upoa rs de'aanasn In reply to
this offensive, Incorporate and hard language the
Republican, OF Monday, says;
There Is not a man in the Board who does not
possess fair ability, aud taking the whole number
together, will favcIAbly compare with any other
similar number Of men in our city Their course
has not been marked by eNtTavagauce or ineffi-
cheney. Abe Salaries were advanced, committee S
were appointed 10 select sile for a new school
hOuse,Ian also to make application through the
Council to the Legislature, authorizing the bor-
rowing of $4,000 for school purposes before many
of the present members were elected and the
question in regard TO the co-educalIon OF the sexes
In school No. l, had likewise been disposed Of.
The oensure of the present members of the Board
is therefore unmerited, and the insinuation in re-
gard to thei conduct must prove harmless"
II, as says the Republican, ''thc assertion OF
ErsTy EUeaiag, is "unWarranted by the facts" the
"iDsinuation in regard to their conduct" cannot
prove "harmless." On the contrary, it is certain
to Prove detrimental in very many ways.
Ii the Beard OF Education contains "some
drunkards," it may have been advisable to pub
lish it. But in doing SO the names Of those should
also havs been Published. We are not called on
to disprovs what Euery EUfning has said But
we believe the Republican speaks more truthfully
Of the Board. We have never seen am Of theyn
drunk" and do moi think the whole Board should
be smirched in that manuer, since they are most
Of them men who do not indulge in strong drink.
It is' sometimes difficult &c determine exactly
who are "iools." Bot it is so easy 10 apply the
term that the ignorant are generally found using
it most frequently. And they apply 1t to those
who are able TO teach them in nearly every branch
Of education and not unirequently some of the
arts aud sciences. Perhaps no word in the Eng
Ish language is more frequently used inappropri-
atey or without just conception Of Its import not
wthstanding the scrpturAl injunction to avoid it,
which EUeTy Ereaing may not be too old to re-
member, or toO wise 10 profit nv respecting
We hope that persons living abroad, OF stlan-
gers TO the members of the Board of Education
living in our city, will not base their opinion Of,
orFePect for that body upon what Every Ereamg
has said