Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1874-01-05
Largest Circulation in the District
Reading Matter on Every Page.
WASHINGTON CITY:
MONDAY -............ January ), 1874
The Goddess. FafthIess, Independent.
satanic, acknowledgements PresS.

E"nlCf PfeSS.
The Dayton Journal very sptly designstes the
faith, or rather want of faith, of a conspicuous
portion of the press Of the country as s'ths
don't beleve-in- he-chastit y-or- woman the
honesty -os-men- and the goodness-of- God doc
trine taught by the Independent school for
scandal press" This is a true bill. The reader
OF these papers who believes what he sees there
habitually must come to the inevitable conclu-
sion that there Is no God, no future no virtue
in man or woman. The effect is to make Gym
les, infdels, and misanthropes of all, and espe-
cisly impressionsble young people, who get
their ideas from these sheets. All generous
aspirations, hopes, and faiths are held up to
utter scOrn and derision by the Backbites and
Sneerwells who guide the "independent" inf
del press. There are no bounds to their Mephis-
tophelean mirth when some unsOphisticated
youth, fresh from the family circle, ventures
the opinion that there are true men and
good women in the world. How they
roar with laughter at the idea that
any man in public life who processes mo-
rality or religious belief is not an arrant hypo-
critic. What exuberant delight they find in re-
peating many times day the sneering appella-
ton of Christian statesman" What an nm
failing subject of derision with these papers is
the effort of "the Young Christians of the
country to bring young men from the
streets and the grog-shop, to the influences of
the library, the lecture room and the church.
When the New York Sun in its trade of defama-
tlon pronounces the women in Government en-
ploy, one and all, a set OF shameless prostitutes
how greedily the mutual admiration society of
independent papers in Cincinnati, Louisville,
Chicago, and elsewhere, copy the vile
SANDER with piquant head lines and edi-
torisl notes Of exclamation and admiration
And when an indignant response is made repel-
ing the miserable falsehood and pointing out
that large proportion of these female clerks
are the widows and daughters of our patriot
dead, struggling TO make an honest livelihood
for themselves and the feeble and helpless ones
dependent upon them, does the San and its sym
pathetic sneezers OF the "independent" press
retract the Islander? Oh no, they ne YER retract.
Tins would take away from their independence
their infallibility as the expounders of the doc
uine Of total blackness. How the echoes wake
up the line of the independent school-for-
scandal press when a clergyman falls from
grace. How instantaneously the delightful It'd
bit is reproduced, and with what a chorus of
sneers at the "cloth." A black sheep here and
there is par AIDED as type of the whole clergy.
They can make no discrimination in favor of
the grand army of true, self denying preachers
who have labored to make their fellow men
better and happier in this world and to give
them faith and hope for the great future
so, too, because New York has had Tweed
all municipal officers throughout the country,
and especially those who have a spark of energy
and public spirit, are denounced as Tweeds.
With poverty OF ideas in keeping with the
narrow minded indseriminate abuse INDUCED
IN by them OF everything that encourages pro-
gress, high aspirations, faith in God, man, or
woman, they repeat with parrot-like iteration
the cry Of Tweed" Tweed all along the
line, whenever and wherever a street is i'm.
proved, sewer laid, a building erected or a
nuisance abated. Truly we ought to be proud
of our dignifed, judicial, large minded, public
spirited, benignant, Independent press"