The Grange advance. [volume] (Red Wing, Minn.) 1873-1877, 1875-04-06
Idiots. Every One Of Them.
Farmer Reynolds in the Grand Rapids Mich
Faqle

Farmer Reynolds in the Grand Rapids (Mich.)
Eagle.]
If the jury in the scandal trial disagree
in everything else, they ought to be unan-
imous in verdict that ali the leading
characters in this great ''foul play are q
pack of downright fools. Beecher is a
fool for having taken a fancy to the little,
weazen-faced, hoAow-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 a split
stick on his nose.
Tilton is fool, and worse than a fool.
All his spoony. soul.stricken illusions to
Elizabeth show it. Nobody but fool
and great he fool at that-would yolun-
torily advertise his wife as courtesan
and himself cuckold. 1t is only the
more contemplate to be done in selfde-
fense 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
dog turning against his female mate
The lion and the wild boar will interpose
their bodies and defy death in the pro.
lection of the brute mother and her
young. Tlton is 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 dboninable fool. And he is an ar
rant coward and an abject puppy besides.
Instead of he 70 he must be an irredcem-
able assam unmitigated, pusillanimous
jackass, if one may be pardoned for the
use of such inofensive terms.
Elizabeth is fool. If guilty she was
fool to own it. She was fool to let
Beecher fool with her, anyhow. Tilton's
idea that she didn't know when insultcd
makes her a most insipid fool. Why,
any third.rate servant girl in fourth
class hotel knows better than that. This
idea that full-grown female don't know
when she is seduced, and is so innocent as
to mistake sexual intercourse for a relig-
ious sacrament, is childish and contempti-
ble' There ism t q ten'year.old girl in
the United States (unless she is a fool)
that can be fooled like that. Besides
Mrs. Tilton's letters show her to be a
downright gusher and idiot.
Mrs. Beecher is fool for not sca]ping
Henry Ward; innocent or guilty he
ought to be scalped. His letters show
enough for that. Besides, Mrs. Tilton
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. He would have
promptly kicked Beecher and Tilton to
lunatic asylum.
Bessie Turner is fool. She is q 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. Bosh!
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. It is a
disgrace to the Nation. 1t is shame to
religion. 1t is disgrace and ruin to the
contestants. 1t is legal and moral lunacy.
There is not an atom Of good itf 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.
Yellow Jack.
WASHINGTON, April 3.-.-Rear Admiral
Mulaney, commanding the North Atlantic
station, reports that one Spanish man-of-
war, lying off Havana, has forty cases of
yellow fever and another thirty.six cases.