National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1875-08-10

the neutrality-suspicious. speech Of
Mr.. Gowen, the president of the Reading
railroad and coal monopoly company, and
has space enough now, with only its Gus
tonary seven columns of advertising, to
treat OF such unimportant subjects as Pete
Herdie's Susquehanna Boom-bill. But
there may be money in'' both Gowen and
Herdic-s presumption, the realization of
which would induce sucha man as the
Times editor to sacrifice space. comfort,
and, for that matter, what little honor he
has left.
Be this as it may, it is apparent that he
is bowed before the shrine Of Ananias and
wears the livery of Saphira. He aims to
print an independent journal, or pretends
to, and succeeds in being so independent OF
the truth that his paper has become noted
as the organ of the basest and most illiberal
prejudices. 1t has no word of encourage
ment or good cheer for any one whose po-
htical faith hinges upon devotion to those
principles for which the soldiers Of the
Union fought during the war, and when
any one attempts to recall the hayward
stragglers from.the Republican ranks, he
finds malicious delight Il belit-
ting their efforts or sneering at
their desires to keep fresh in the
memory of the people the priceless
achievements Of that struggle. There is
no moral impulse, and can be no patriotic
design at the bottom of such policy. 1t
is simply the result of a reckless disregard
of honest obligations, and no doubt is
prompted to some extent, as in the case OF
that oary-headed old sinner, Dana, by
personal disappointment and consequent
malicious desire for revenge. The satis-
faction to be derived from it is fleeting, as is
the success which attends it. No intelli-
gent man will yield to him the credit of
being honest, and while the thoughtless
may smile at and enjoy his jeers and jibes,
his influence for good or evil is confined to
his own person. The public respect CRATE
fully yielded to journalists who represent
fixed principles. is withheld from him, as
it is from the bushwhacking guerrilla by the
honest soldiery who contend for sacred
rights. The determined and well-defned
critelions by which the public judgment is
formed of men in his position, must con-
stantly arise as spectres before him to point
with unerring foresight to the disgraceful
elimination of his Maynard career, and at
no time in the course of it can he lay his
hand on his heart with the qualification of
knowing that its beatings respond to honest
and high minded impulses. But his great
est disgrace is that he is not original; he is
simply the feeble imitator of the iniquities
of others. A man by nature, he is an ape
by choice, and very poor one at that, for
for while he aims to be as wicked
as his most depraved exemplars, his
better nature is not yet sufficiently
numbed to allow him to sink the aspirations
bred of early influences entirely out ofsight.
Calculated to lead, and to lead brilliantly,
he has become an humble follower in the
paths of his interiors, and will soon be
ranked with the horde of pigmies who
crouch at the feet of Charles A. Dana, and
learn from that veteran calumniator how to
demoralize the public by decrylng every
thing that is good in the world. Finally,
1t will be recorded that he never spoke well
of any one and no one ever spoke well of
him. As a second-f fiddle to the New York
Sun, his journal will never reach higher
position than that it now occupies.