Los Angeles daily herald., 1876-06-03
Lines of Regret.

than another it is our inability to so
conduct the HERALD that its articles
and general policy will meet the ap-
proval and endorsement of our es-
teemed cotempofary, the Evening
Cypress. We have labored long and
diligently; we have spent sleepless
nights; we have consulted friends;
we have counseled with the wise; we
have conversed with the shrewd; we
have struggled with every conceiv-
able plan and theory, in the hope that
we might win passing commenda-
tion from that learned, erudite, digni-
fed, high-toned, gilt-edged journal.
We have heen especially anxious for
this favor, because we know that our
cotemporary is edited by the wisest,
ablest and most successful journalists
that have ever ignored their legiti-
mate calling to electrify and mystify
a gratified and much obliged world
with scintillations that all delight to
liken unto the love of God-journal-
lists who have lifted numerous papers
from comparative obscurity to faith
omless oblivion. But, alas, there is a
limit to human power, and there is a
point beyond which human capability
cannot reach. They will not be COM
forted, and in place of the much cov-
eted approving smile the condemning
frown still confronts us. The HERALD
is called "penDyswipe Sheet" and
accused of laboring to shake public
confidence in the Express. We do not
understand the term "pennyswipe
sheet,n but if it means a paper unlike
the Erpress in trimming and syco-
phancy we have only to say all right.
We are fearful that paper which,
though owing its birth and existence
to the Republican party, betrayed its
parent and sold out it's fosterer; that
filled its columns with assurances of
the soundness of bank of the stabil-
ity of which it either knew nothing
or deliberately lied about; that de-
nounces the Iaboring masses who are
taking legitimate steps for the abate-
ment of the Chinese nuisance as"irre-
sponsible parties," cannot reasonably
urge strong claim to public conf
dence. But be that claim strong or
weak, we positively affirm that the
throes and pains and smarts and aches
now shaking our aguish cotemporary
are due to no int entional shaking of
ours. On the papers own record it
was denounced and condemned by the
Anti-Chinese Club of this city. This
is none of our Shaking" On the pa
per's own record the misinformed and
deceived depositors of the collapsed
bank denounce it a falsifying, public
deceiving, capper and stool-pigeon.
This is none of our Shaking" By
and in accordance with the Assignees'
report, the paper's indie btedness to the
bank is placed among the "bilis re-
ceivable.n If the amount cannot be
received before January, or at all, so
much the worse for the creditors, but
it is none of our" shaking" We deplore
the fact that the Erpress is so unwise,
so inclined to trimming and so addic-
ted to venality as to draw upon itself
the condemnation of the fair-minded
portion of the community, but must
insist on being relieved from the re-
sponsibility of having placed it in the
unpleasant position it occupies. We
cannot account for the idiosyncrasy of
our cotemporary in insisting that the
HERALD has sunk it TO the level it
now occupies, unless it is true as we
have heard that declining fortune
drives people into sort of blind fren-
zy under the effect of which they
strike alike at friend and foe. We
feel kindly towards the Express. We
have always regarded it as paper
nearly up to mediocrity in ability, with
gutta percha code of PRINCIPLES and
kangaroo instincts, and we sincerely
hope it will survive its present attack
of impecuniosity and ill-temper, and
ultimately attain position approxi-
mating respectable journalism. We
apply no harsh terms to our unfortu-
nate cotemporary. One of the lessons
of our youth was to deal gently with
the erring, and in remembrance OF
that lesson we write these lines more
in sorrow than in anger.