Lyon County times. [volume] (Silver City, Nev.) 1874-1907, 1876-03-13
DAILY
LYON COUNTY TIMES.
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Terms, 25 Gents Per Week.
OFFICIAL PAPER Of LYON COUNTY.
Ray CORRESPONDENCE,
SAN Francisco, March 8.
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ILL AAhAsAAAl - - -
THE time was When great crimes
committed in high places by impor'
tsut personages could be kept from
ne public eyes and ears; but thanks
to electricity and ink, the privileged
reign of princely and reverend enc
roeues has come to its eternal end
"The king can do no wrong," is OBJ.
solete, and the sacredness Of "the
divine vanishes into smoke when
ever the newspaper passes the porc.
tails of the palace or the cottage
The electric wire and the printing
press have leyeled. distinctions, and
the day has come when the humble
son of toll is the peer of the helr-ap-
parent to the throne. TttTf#|ifl
"princes and lords are but the breath OF
kings; tL. f-rkgs f.
An honest mans the noblest work Of God"
While we cannot rejoice in the
downfall Of great men in any sphere
of life, we do confess to qualification
in the thought that the great public
in our own country at least, have
been raised to the judgment-seat and
can announce their inexorable sen.
tenoe to-day as well as it can ever be
done in the dreamed-of future OF the
Sunday school books. This is the
grandest progress OF our AEGEAN
age of marvels-and is a bequeath-
ment to posterity of which every
honest man and woman has reason
i. to be proud. = ''~ -
But ten short years ago, who
could have dreamt that the Rev.
Henry Ward Beecher. the pulpit
idol of America, could ever have
been brought before the public
gaze, rs it has been his great mis-
sfoitune to endure during the past
few months? 1T would years ago
y. have been. sscrllegesto even have
whispered with baied breath word
tlnged with suspicion VI his belng
less than purity perscnifed. With
ont utterlng q word here tlat
might offend the most devoted OF
his friends who may yet think him
innocent of every wrong Imputed to
him, we are not sorry that one so
elevated can be cited aaillustration
of the thought that at. this moment
finds expression by our pen. Thou
sands Of times have clerical rogues
'debauched the fairest of ''the Lord 8
lambs" who confided in their honor
and sacred callings,' and the
guilty have too often escapeu the
Just demerits of their base deeds;
but one single case of one so illus
trious as Beeeher being SO charged,
though even not convicted, is be-
yond all price for the insEuction it
imparts to the masses of the people
and the salutory lesson it reads to
the clergy. sg .ET8
Superstitious reverence Of men
has been the. eurse Of the world.
He prays best who does best.
Words are idle. And that is the
{ touehstohe towhich men are brought
to-day aud no covering of sanctity or
tinsel, name or place, can shield the
criminal who betrays a sacred
trust; there is no dignity now to
even "hedge king" tttt a<'t
The jury at St. Louis acquitted
General Babcock and there is
much satisfaction expressed at the
verdict--as was the same at the ter
mination of the Beecher-Tilton trial
That Beecber and Babcock- were both
guilty in the impression ofeefy many
people, but probably not ,ehe of these
so convinced would have been a whit
more satisfied if the accused had been
convicted and signally punished. The
exposure, with the coloring Of guilt,
Is the lesson that the public wants to-
day, and with that 1t Is fully avenged
The rack and the faggot have passed
away, and the people are thankful
1hat their use can meyer again be
knawn'a as the punishment of Chris
'uan nations. The fear of such public
exposures as suspected men in high
places are everywhere threatened
with nowis worth more than u thW-
sand imprisonments in penitentiaries.
when arrested and brought into
court General Belknap's manly,
commanding, i person fairly groaned
with the emotion Of shame. He would
snave'died q 'dozen deaths on, the battle
iieid rather than to have met thega
sof the idle and curious loitering ut
t!he doors K the Court House. What
INTENSITY Of agony he sufferedi TAe
very sympathy OF his friends is gall
sAna wormwood to him, rams mon
with Beecher ON the ragged edge
'of despair for years; Babcock, the
power behind the Presidential throne,
'who could raise up the unknown or
cast down the proud officeholder
almost at his will, apd sway scep-
fler as powerful as royalty itself-he,
stripped IN moment Of his influence