The Manitowoc tribune. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1866-1878, 1877-03-15
R4CI CGRRFBPONDENCE.

An aspiring genitis, whd is destined to
make a noise in the world, if a cruel
Providence does not cut short his am
bilious career, recently wrote the follow
iilg 1etteF f' = Western cooperative
printing house:
How much would you charge hundred if 1
would want five hundred or thousand week
of your newspapers have you papers to publish
once week and have you them to publish
tw'cf week does the law demand that man
publishing a newspaper ha7s Il ttcrstsed in the
Secretary of State Office or does the law delnaid
that it be recorded with any officer
can man select an artical for
newspaper without the publishers consente
when a man selects an artical to print does he
have to give the name of the newspaper he got
the artiea1 out of how big paper would I have
to pffHt to bs worth two dollars 4 year and
woiiid l!avE tn gife AIRY part of it to the gov
ernment as tax can mali Sc firied for net
stating all the facts in an artical he puts illtG
his paper eff it was impossible to get all of them
in time can he be fined eff his paper is be-
hind in gettin out which politics is the best
ijayin lid r tie st.erif bound by law to give
me all his printing eff l have tic Citly paper of
his politics in the county can l get editorials of
you how much would you charge pease.
To which the following answer was
seilt
DEAR SIR: Yours at hand. IL tsp's weuld
say, the labyrinthine windings and intricacies
of civil enactments are well-nigh infinite, and,
to those who have yearnings after the inscruta-
ble more difficult of solution and syllogistic
e1ttcfdation than the problems of Euclid or the
tytilupBan ,nysteiies. flik iiftEtpfktat'ors of
the most eminent forensic elucidators have in
all ages been widely adverse, and not infre-
quently dramatically at variance, with the pro-
mulgations of the most exalted tribunals.
This, as you will readily perceive, has culini-
mated in confusion of ethics well-nigh incom-
ptehensible to those of the most obtuse procliv-
ttissi sttA Avfn the brightest examples of the
most incandescent and evaIiusIt tttt FstttIfs have
had to yield the palm, and effervesce in the
most fatulent and diabolic manner without the
slightest regard to the intrinsic merits or alb
normal demerits of the case in point: But to
illustrate: The superior tribunals of this, as
well as all other countries whether monarchi-
cal or democratic in polity of administration
ana form OF diplomacy exercised 10 render III
vulnerable the inalienable rights and boons of
citizens and subjects inherent al,ik, tc plebaian
and patrcian-have, since the earliest periods
of antiquity welded the balance of power in
all parabolic matters of this kind, and from their
cilimerical emanations there has never, to our
knowledge, been the slightest microscopic, or even
infinitesimal, fraction of chance of escape or
from the polarity of the problem, even when
the idiosyncrasies of the promulgators them
selves, or their factions by deputy, were dis
posed to cireunvent the doetrinal segments of
tie pafa11ax But to niakH the matter still
more clear to your asinine perception, take the
well-1nown example of the Hebrides and insti-
tute a thorough and circumspect review of all
its intricacies, and you will readily comprehend,
with even Faistafiian obesity, that the proba-
bilities of your ever being eliminated for your
imbecile desire to promulgate and disseminate
the exhalings of your vacuous Uranium in the
manner conceded as Archimedean, are, in an
arith1netical point of consideration, scarcely
more probable than that the potentate of Hades
will continue to exercise dominion over that fer
vid territory until the grand finale of destiny.
Any further information you may desire will
be cheerfully furnished on application. Very
truly yours, ****