The New York herald., 1874-09-19
A Statement About Sta atements.

Mr.. Tilton has made another statement,
which we print to-day. Mr.. Beecher has
made statement. Mr.. Moulton has made
three statements. The committee has made
what it has the audacity to call decision, but
which is really nothing but statement Gen
eral Morris has made number of statements
MIR. Tracy has made o statement about Mr.
Moulton's statement and about himself
Susan B. Anthony has made q statement. So
have q number of other old women. Mr..
Shearman has made o statement. Brother
Raymond has made very important state
ment-viz., that to attack Mr.. Beecher is to
attack the throne of God itself. Miss Proctor
has made legal statement Elizabeth
has made several statements. Bessie has
made some shocking statements, which, as
usual, are irreconcilable with each other or
with truth Mrs. Morse has made state
ment Samuel Wilkeson has made state
ment, briefly but forcibly referring to the
''Life of Christ Mr. Carpenter has made
statement. Everybody has made statement
about somebody else. I, thou, he, we, you
and they, he, she and it, have or hast made
statements. There are almost as many state
ment makers as there are candidates for the
Vice Presidency, and they constitute large
percentage of the population.
Now, this is our statement. Having read
all the statements Of the other statesmen, is it
not time to state that any further state
ments are a bore? We think so. The
public, from the facts presented, has been able
to form general idea of the case, and the
details of the private life of the romantic
people of Plymouth church, their outcomings
and their inwardness, have ceased to be in
terestng. 1t may be agreeable to the states
men to see their portraits in the illustrated
papers, and to have the fac-similes of their
dreadfully bad chirography published as a
warning to our public schools, but it is
not agreeable to the public. The news
papers, too, have other duties to per-
form than those which concern Mr.
Beecher and his wild companions. There are
murders in Montana, larcenies in Louis-
ana, crim con. in Connecticut, arson
in Arizona and outrages in Ohio. We
cannot confne ourselves to q single
crime IN DrOOklyu MUCH tS we respect tQaC
crime and those criminals, other sins and
other sinners have claims upon us which we
are in duty bound to consider The ques-
tons of Mr. Beecher's guilt, of Mr.. Tilton's
sufferings of Mr.. Moultons veracity, of Miss
Anthony's virtue, Of the sanity of the
Plymouth church committee, are important
but other men have sinned and it is possible
that others have lied, though probably not to
such an extraordinary extent. As Mr.. Tilton, if
he has been wronged, has an opportunity of OBJ
tanning some redress in the courts to which lie
has appealed, and as the friends of Mr.
Beecher, if he is innocent can prove it better
in court than in the newspapers (for unfor-
tunatey we cannot compel the statesmen to
swear to what they say, why should not both
parties wait for legal decision? They should
understand that the public is sick of this USE
less and fruitless discussion, and is very we'll
content to hear no more of the case till it
comes up for trial in October. In the mean
while we have only to say to these Brooklyn
statesmen what General Grant said TO the
nation when he was first elected President, and
we trust the suggestion will have more salts
factory response. 'Let us have peace" said
the President. 'Let US have no more state
ments," say we.
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