Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1876-12-29
THAT OUTRAGE MILL"

The Granger smells as sweet as new mown
hay. But when it says that Peacemaker
"gives credence only to the productions of
the outrage MILL" it is trying to cut big
ger swath than it can carry. Rural sim
plicity is beautiful, but moral "swagger :"
is simply pItiful if not ridiculous. Does
Granger mean to say that Peacemaker gets
all lis information from Republican news
papers and that these papers are outrage
mills grinding out panic stories about
Southern Outrages? II so, permit us to
say in plain saxon that the farmers of this
Republic need to scratch their heads for
brains If they ever carry grist to such
mill as the Granger is. If the Granger con-
tInues TO publish such insinuntions about
the Republican press it grinds out stuff
which men ought to be ashamed to carry.
Southern outrages are reported to us by
Republican newspapers and are condemned
as characteristic of barbarians and savages,
II the Granger would do the same thing,
own up and tell the truth about Southern
outrages instead of saying that the pub
lished reports of them are grists Of lies
ground ont for political effect by Outrage
mills" set TO going by party wire pullcrs,
it would do a better service for our coun-
try, and fulfill a higher mission. The
Democratic press may look we'll after its
lnurels. The American people are about
tired of a class of "cut throats" who try
to hide under the covert of party North
and South called Democratic and is un-
worthy OF so good a name rs that of cop
perheads and rattlesnakes. But stop a
moment. Brother Granger, want to say
a word to you and your Democratic friends.
Do you not know that while you are COW
ering up crime, and sheltering criminals
that you are undermining and tearing
down the Republic? Trying to make the
yeomanry believe that the Internal demons
of the South who stuff ballot boxes, rob
women OF their virtue and asSassinate and
mangle the bodies of their husbands, mur-
der innocent babes and orphan children,
are mere fctions in the brains of RcpubI-
can editors who grind them out in "out-
rage mills" as the miller grinds out his
corn in a grist MILL! Oh Granger
Granger! The very devil il in you. Can
you not be delivered by some miraculous
incantation? Are you an airy myth =?
How do We know that you live and have a
being? We certainly know you not except
by the press. No kilograms announced
your birth. No committee of FIVE visited
you to see whether you have flesh and
bones. And yet, pardon me, my dear Gran
ger, believe that You are and that you be-
lieve you are "some" too. Well, then We
have more proof, or vouchers that there
are men in the South who act like hell
hounds prowling around innocent dwell
lings, tearing in pieces the bodies Of men,
women, and children, crushing the fOndest
hopes and tearing asunder the ienderest
ties in an "outrage mill" you've been so
dozingly drca ming about. Oh yes, class
of men may "raise hell" right here in
the U. S. and the Granger and Democratic
press tell us that the whole concern is
fiction. They are "only the productions
of the outrage MILL" A party so men.
dacious ought TO hear its doom by an an
cient prophet. "Oh We serpents, We gem
Grafton OF viperS, how can We escape the
damnation of hell" PEAcE-MAKER.