Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1874-04-23

Jack because MS back Bone Is made OF
india rubber. Such a spine wont let a
man stand up straight, SO we pity
Jack rather than blame him.
The TriJaTse don't like it because. we
expose the deviltry that IS working
our ruin as a community. Jack calls
it ''waiI'' and really says ''no10 don't
tell such things, keep mum" But we
don't keep mum worth cent. Jack
don't want us to cackle till the egg is
laid" We'd rather cackle now
Jack, if it makes no particular differ
ence to Jack, than wall by and by
when it proves to be the egg Of a cock
atrice. The Tribune don't like it be-
cause we don't like the illegal voting
that was INDUCED in on election day.
We are sorry. hut we declare, We don't
know how to help it. IF our spine
was made of india rubber may be we
might learn to love such a condition of
things.
Jack don't like the name he, him
self, gives the party with which we
work. ''GoD AND MORALITY" don t
suit Jack, at all, and then Jack says
this party chad already set the exam
pie alleging that the God and NOR
atty party had defed the law because
Sheriff Lavigne did not see fit to call a
special election contrary to lam,-to
precedent,-to 1usloce and in face of
the fact that State Attorney Sloan
didn't know positively whether or no
it was his--Lavigne's, duty so to do.
And then the Tribune does become hn-
Iy. 1t tells what it would Ike to see
done, and spreads itself Ike hawk
over a defenceles8 chick, and bristles
like a porcupine. And yet Jack fell
lowships with these men, and they are
sshail fellows well met" and the
''goose hangs high" and there is such
a halo of levity in all the temple
wherein their idols are worshiped that
we don't blame Jack, we only are sorry
for him. Jack shouldn't have spoken
SO bold. He will hear his ''bossea"
whistle by and by, for such talk isn't
orthodox, and then Jack will have to
put his lateral appendage betwe en- his
trotters and trot home and may be
they wont let him out on another hunt.
Don't flush the chickens Jack till you
have orders. Now there is another
little trouble with our brother. He
don't like our jokes perpetrated on the
election, and he tries to make the Ger
mans and Norwegians believe that we
are a sworn enemy Of theirs. Now
Jack knows that we don It rail against
only the dishonest of those nationali-
ties-those who willingly 'prostitute
the grandest Of all privileges and
every right minded German and Nor
wcgian Will say "amen" to our ez-
preston. But Jack has forgotten one
little fact. There was once a Know
Nothing Party, and an Irishman or a
Norwegian, or a German was WITH IT
an ostracized incipiont traitor, and
only Americans were believed by that
party to have any rights which an
American was bound to respect. Our
dear brother, Jack, forgets that he
was an korored member of that party
that he published and edited paper
in Chicago-and O! how foreigners
were raked down in its columns ! We
think we see Jack marching in pro
ce8sion, carrying a torch, clad in rub
Der coat and big cap with a waving
plume, or may be he upheld banner
inscribed--'' PLACE NONE BUT AMER
1CANs on GUABD = and we think we
can almost hear the echo of applause
in which Jack joined when such an
utterance as this was spoken by sone
cred hot" Know Nothing orator
"Om country is IN jeopardy Or
rights aoiU be arrested from as # oge al
Zoao these foreigners to help make oar
lars. let americans ruIe America. "
But then Jack has forgotten those
things, or he has reformed Which is
it? He was once Republican, but
Hanchett didn't give him a consul
ship and he soured on the parity and
went to Missouri, and-but what's the
use Of recounting the devious ways Of
Jack. s'He means all right but
that back bone and the loaves and the
fishes, and the devil all conspire
against him, and he can't be the Jack
he used to be. But we hope, hope for
Jack, and we are only waiting-wait-
iag= waiting.
kuOthnr. Victim,