Lyon County times. [volume] (Silver City, Nev.) 1874-1907, 1875-07-29
THE FALL OF GENIUS.

The atndian" editor Of the "TerYi-
.orial Enterprise" has been fairly
atreed' by the TIMES in the discus
sion of Indian affairs, and like his
Dorwipian brother of the cocoanut
moves Of Tahiti, sits upon the fur
slermost brarch of his leafy retreat
making ugly faces at the pursuer he
could in no other way evade. Were
.le game worth the trouble we should
have no difficulty in shaking him
down again, but we are bound to con-
slider the evasion a virtual back-ou of
the grandiloquent propositions at first
laid down by the ''big paper of the
Pacific Coast" and its high priced
peEcil-pusher. In Tuesdays issue,
li'1o all that have preceded it, the
Enterprise" fails to produce a soli-
sary line Of argument in defense of
the theory it SO grandly put forth,
but launches out into a senseless and
rrjournalistic TRADE of abuse upon
the author of the articles which have
30 completely floored its $4,000 edi-
tor. As specimen of editorial froth-
ing at the mouth, the article in Tues
days Enterprise" is success, but in
every other particular it is an igno-
minious failure; and whoever has
been guilty OF making the author of
II believe ne is fitted to conduct a
respectable newspaper, should be
hunted out and compelled to place
an ample apology on the records of
Storey county. A. newspaper of the
acknowledged moral standing Of the
TIMEs cannot afford to descend to
sbe base recourse pursued by the
''Enterprise" in this discussion. There
is law of gentility which will not
permit gentleman to engage in a
scuffie with blackguard, and it fully
applies to journalistic controversy.
The excrutiateingly polite moral de-
formity w1o scatters writing fluid and
spoils pencils for the "Enterprise,'
swells up like a toad whenever any
other Nevada paper dares to criticise
the position of a paper from which
he draws salary, and had we not
succeeded in penetrating the thick
and soggy coating of his limited
brain, we should have never known
how much wind is required to initiate
him. He thinks we would make a
A~e1- l;a.4--~-k---l~-- ETo Uanaoe
say as to that, but we feel certain that
the heavy man of the Enterprise"
would have made good Indian, and
deem it unfortunate that the manifest
accident which has caused a usually
wise Providence to affiict the world
with his troublesome presence, did
not at the same time present him with
ared skin and pair Of moccasins'
1t would have been pretty rough on
the Indian race, but an inestimable
blessing to the rest of mankind. In
one respect the Enterprise" editor
Is at disadvantage in this discussion;
he has a very unpopular side of it,
for we do not believe there can be
found ten men in Nevada who know
anything of pioneering or Of Indian
character that will indorse the pres
emit sickly sentiments of its editor on
the Indian question. They know
from experience that his assertions
are the merest twaddle, and that no
one not born with a9wooden nutmeg
in one hand and a Boston cracker in
the other, will give the slightest cred
ence to his many tales of atrocities
committed by the white pioneer
against the brutal and totally un-
worthy Indian. 'There is a tide
which taken at its food leads to for
tune There is also q ''tide which
taken at its flood" leads one to make
q damphool Of himself, and judging
from the editorial articles of the 'sEn-
terpriseh on Indian affairs its editor
in-chief has launched his canoe on
the waters referred to. Mr.. Daggett