The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1875-02-18
TFor the News.
For the NeWs.
Consistency VS.. the Editor of
the HiIlsbOrO Gazette.

the HillsborO Gazette.
Mr.. EDITOR The article in last
weeks "News" on this subject, by a
"Moral- high pressure -bright-particu-
ar-brainless- -bigoted-ass," seems to
have raised tempest as boisterous
and obstructive as could possibly be
contained in the small amount of
space allotted to the brain. of the
Editor of the Hillsboro Gazette.
The epithets contained ii his ar
ticle are placed together here for
two reasons: First, that they may
see how little consistency there isin
a man of moral and intellectqst .cul-
ture, such as would entitle Dim to
WELD the pen of an Editor. d4yoting
nearly whole column to the answer
of an article emanating from such a
'brainless" source When I sit down
to write an article for newspaper,
in reply to ''tbe braying of an ass,
you may set me down for a - con
test in which I regard my foeman as
worthy of my steel"
Secondly, in order that a discrim-
mating public may perceive the ex-
tremity to which he is driven, by see
ing how these epithets have been
substituted for arguments.
Now let US come to the subject.
The offensive article denounces Gen.
Schenck's book as strongly as does
the Gazette, but he charges that Gen.
Grant and the Republican party en-
dorse the book. When this is proc
ed, I will denounce Gen. Grant and
the Republican party in the same
terms. My object is not to defend
either, but to point out an evil, and
if possible thereby prevent its spread.
Gambling is the same in its dreadful
results whether cards, dice, domin-
oes, chessmen, horse shoes, fast hor-
ses, or guns, are used as the medium
through which these results are
reached. That man who would de
nounce murder if perpetrated by
poisoning or by stealth, and apollo
gize for or advocate it if performed
by open assassination, would be re-
garded as insane yet how like this
is the denunciation of Gambling
with cards, and the advocacy of it
with guns.
But, says this intellectual and NOR
al Bro6dig'aag, we were not aware this
was gambling. Strangel why where
could the man have lived all these
years, that he should not have known
that these same County Fairs have
been for years regarded by the best
men of this country as schools where
the first lessons in gambling are
taught; He does know it, and SO do
hundreds of others whose positions,
like that of this Editor, are disgraced
because they have not the courage to
say so. Fairs are very popular, even
Church Fairs, as he sneeringly init
mates but this does not make them
right Heavens livery has often
been stolen by the Devil.
The fact is, if County Fairs, Church
Fairs, Masquerade Balls, and Shoot
ing Matches were things that belong
ed exclusively to the Republican par
ty, they would all be denounced in
unmeasured terms by this same Ed
itor. If they were all Democratic
institutions, they would all be cham
pioned and defended by him. Fealty
to party is everything, and it is upon
this principle that we account for
Senator Shepherds vote on the
amendment to the Adair law. We
have regarded him as temperance
man, but the party to which he is
allied is an Anti Temperance party,
and with him fealty to party is Of
more Importance than fealty to
principle.
Do I know the provisions of this
Adair law? or have I read Mr.. Rees's
amendment? he asks. 1 know this
and the whisky-seller knows, as well
as Senator Shepherd and the Editor
of the Hillsboro Gazette, that the
trembling, heart broken wife of 6
drunkard will not dare, at the risl
of her life, to give the notice required
by this act, and which alone entities
her to any redress before the law.
As, for the moral character of the
Masquerade Ball, let him try it b.
the standard established by thu
church of which he is a member
Let him practise what he breaches
and if that church does not bring
him to account, it will be anothe
: sad proof of the degeneracy OF tn
times in which we live.
As, County Fairs and Shooting
Matches are primary schools in gan
: bling, so these Hops and Masquel
: ade Balls are purlieus to licentiousnes
D and prostitution, and there is no cor
sistency in the man who champion
, these things, becoming franticall
# excited and raving like mad, whe
d accused of immortality.
Feb. 13, 1875. TANTUM.
i, The Greenfield Chief notices tn
remarkable longevity of four broti