Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1877-10-06

flute With his ten toes the tune Of pro-
toPlssm-
We have heard il said hundreds OF
time. and perhaps IL may have been
dropped into the ear Of this moskey
~Lef me make the songs Of q nation,
and do not care who makes its laws -
- II might be said: lie; me- ooafrol the
eAricafHres of q nation, and I do MT
care who srites the newspaper srticlcs =
They dezl with matters in . way that
everybody Imprehesds- II IL not even
necessAry that Oee should know his let
t<rs, in order % read the lessoa of the
picture. IL tells the Whole starry a. .
gsssos. II zrgB-s in style that = not
- - r-fgte1-nO mAjaz ~ minor premise
- prooe~s q logic t@~. admits q aues-
tea II appeals directly % the inasina-
tion- ~hlcA i t,se most active of thu
m11f4l f4cuities- Is . eArSezfure fhers
= EcaerGlly an element q tie ladirru1s
has so Always-if some9imes aeAls sit
sst,I-r.s. uhe-e 81 0ssrPoWering ssnse e
is4-gzsti.na i th- eH-es pro1accA Thers
ar som= <-eaf cnrse2tzFe= In which tA=rs
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O. Mmu-e the f&ocy. uh4s@veF feeAinzz -
$50 60 eastszP, nay he also ezcisei
is EpgAAa4 th1Ee J. h4rilE . sAzm il
ChErrk q STAT thAt rs al felf Ia
pa1cEEvE q tae cErlcafaFizrs psorE
WA@t hzs been 3uzs n~&reE k0se every
e~iy knDEs- Tsers are falii<s whi-h an
@n~; eGrcfaally eisF-o-ed e b. tAis
Ag~ncy- TAeFV are CRISES whieA ear b.
ru@chc3 Ia - osSer Wsy- Th< pa e m
rs1t1cs, winter nay nni ~ hzlf - scr-
vice4Ale - fas artists pail
II h = xift hs~xSex. tat shazld a.
saFs b. a-cd vita discFetias- Ifkhe carr
estHTs nay Do good. Il may also iuEict
terTi,le wroag ard hxrm- There ATe
ssne things with which Il has NJ night q
mesidis. whO that ever reaA IL ean fuE-
g-i the noble ealggium of AbrAham Liza
cola, IN whioh tire Lo1don PsaeA re
tr4ctcd and apslogizsd fT The miserable
treatment be h2i sometimes received On
the pages Of that fzr-spresd PviSti There
are men still living who might justly de-
mani = similar retraction from those
who held them up to public ridicule,
when they were dong their best 10 save
the land from the ravages of fraud and
corruption.
Every approach TO vulgarity in this
department should be frowned upon by
the people. A caricature may be gross,
without being indecent, but grossness
corrupts the taste, if not the morals.
Papers are hawked about here and there,
and sometimes bought by the unwary as
we'll as by the vicious, that are not fit
for a decent persons eyes. They are
likely to be as fat and spiritless as they
are vulgar.
A publication in the hands of high
toned men and conducted by artists of
real genius, ready to expose the myriad
humbugs of the day, and hold up to
scorn and ridicule crimes and follies that
perhaps can be reached in no other way,
would be a powerful check upon our
blatant politicians, and dishonest repudia.
tors, and philanthrophic quacks. There
are well-known periodicals in which this
work is done to certain extent, but not
always with due discrimination and i'm
Partially. A publication of this sort
should not be conducted in the service |
of any party. 1t should be open to the
ventilation of every abuse, let it exist
wherever it may. 1 could give a list of
persons, manyof them distinguished 10
other ways, who can do very good work
in this line, but their sketches are re-
served for the private inspection of
friends, and the public reap no benefit. |
If the channel were open, they might |
teach us all some valuable lessons. For,
after all, caricature is only the writing in |
hieroglyphs, as the ancients wrote before |
the invention of letters and as the Ameri-
can Indian writes now. The old cathe-
drals are full of caricatures, carved in
wood and stone. Sometimes they are
frightfully gross, because they were done
in gross age. The higher culture of
the times would give better tone to
these adOrnments now. And, in closing
let me say that you may learn more from
good picture that you can from a
stupid essay.---Bsshop Clark, in N. Y.
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