River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1875-04-09
Idiots, Every One of Them.
Farmer Reynolds in the Grand Rapids (Micl
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idiOtss Every One of Them.
Farmer Reynolds in the Grand Rapids (Mich.)
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If the jury in the scandal trial disagree
in everything else, they ought 20 be unan-
imous in verdict that all the leading
characters in this great ''foul play" are a
pack of downright fools. Beecher is
fool for having taken fancy to the little,
wea2en. faced, hollow.chested Elizabeth, in
the first place. How any healthy, we'll.
balanced masculine could become enam-
ored with such charmless creatur,
THAT is, if the reporters don't lie and
the photographs are all right is
an inscrutable mystery. Then
Beecher's letters show him to
be an idiot. Any ordinary schoolboy
that should write such insanity and twad-
die would either be expelled as hopeless
or made to stand on the floor with split
stick on his nose.
Tilton is a fool, and worse than fool.
All his spoony, soul-stricken efinsions to
Elizabeth show it. Nobody but a fool
and great he fool at that--would volun-
torily advertise his wife as courtesan
and himself a cuckold. 1t is only the
more contemplate to be done in self-de-
Tense or self-protection. A higher order
of gallantry than that can be obtained
in the domestic relations of the
brutes. Who ever heard of even
a dog turning against his female mate
The lion and the wild boar will interpose
their bodies and DEFY death in the pro.
i'm nG ha
young. Tilton is a fool because he has
put this nasty matter in the papers and
in the courts. Any man who will figure
up with the alleged seducer of his wife as
to the doubtful parentage of her child is
an dbOmindbie fool. And he is an ar
rant coward and an abject puppy besides.
Instead of he no he must be an irredeem.
able assam unmitigated, pusillanimous
jackass, If one may be pardoned for the
use of such inoffensive terms.
Elizabeth is fool. If guilty she was
a fool to own it. She was fool to let
Beecher fool with her, anyhow. Tilton' 5
idea that she didn't know when insulted
makes her most insipid fool. Why,
any third-rate servant girl in fourth
class hotel knows better than that. This
idea that a iull-grown female don't know
when she is sedueed, and is so innocent as
to mistake sexual intercourse for a relig-
ious sacrament, is childish and contempti-
bic. There isn't a .year-old girl in
the United States (unless she is a fool)
that can be fooled like thai. Besides
Mrs. Tilton's letters show her &c be a
downright gusher and idiot.
Mrs. Beecher is a fool for not scalping
Henry Ward; innocent or guilty he
ought to be scalped. His letters show
enough for that. Besides, Mrs. Titon
showed more than what was found in his
letters.
OF course Frank Moulton is fool. If
he hadn't been one he never would have
acted as news carrier in this dirty mat.
ter. He wouldn't have lied for either or
both of the parties. lie would have
promptly kicked Beecher and Tiiton TO a
lunatic asylum.
Bessie Turner is fool. She is a fool
to suppose that any body will believe that
Tilton could have taken her from her
own bed and carried her to his without
waking up and she gushing, full-blown
/ girl. DOsn
And the counsel on both sides are fools.
They are fools to drag out the testimony
as they have. They are fools in not get
ting all the money in the case and then
telling their clients land at least two.
thirds of the witnesses to take arsenic,
or to 60 to-Europe.
Than the Brooklyn trial there never
was dirtier job conceived of. 1t is a
disgrace to the Nation. 1t is a shame to
religion. 1t is disgrace and ruin to the
contestants. 1t is legal and moral lunacy.
There is not an atom Of good in it. It
was conceived in idiocy and rottenness,
and will probably end in sorrow and
death. And the publication of the trial
in the newspapers ought to be discon.
tinued. At least these are our senti.
ments.