The Hartford herald. [volume] (Hartford, Ky.) 1875-1926, 1878-08-07
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subjeet, and less ambitious of little
newspaper nOtOriety, he would have
saved himself all this trouble to set
himself in a pardonable shape before
his readers but when a man dares to
pluck public sentiment by the beard
and insult the moral sense of whole
community by making a reckless
onslaught on their most cherished
principles, he need not expect to
escape the natural consequences of his
temerity-a general pelting and taboo
ing. With a singular persistency, he
still continues to write and publish
but whether it is with the innocent
ambition. of Goldsmith's village dan.
GERS
The harmless pair who simply sought renown
/ By holding out TO tire cath other down,
or whether he expects by his peculiar
powers of " analysis and synthesis," to
ferret out the defects of old temper
ance societies and inaugurate one of
his own, scott-free from all defects,
and thereby rout Murphy and his Co
horts from the field, all.ttying time
can alone determine.
But really | can not believe that he
has any wish to become rival of Muir
ply or any other temperance agita-
tor--he has no ambition to win tenn
perance laurels. A wreath of the
leaves of the vine, such as that with
which the bowling devotees of Bacchus
we're once accustomed to adOrn the
temples of the drunken god, would
better become his brOws. No odds
what the gentleman's private habits
may be, he has publicly committed
himself to the cause of intemperance-
his printed articles will bear no other
Interpretation. When a man possesses
love for a principle and then turns
round and abuses every body else that
avows it, he lays his motives open to
grave suspicion. No odds what fiat
tering testimonials Outsider" may
have received with reference to his
essay, his readers will now render a
verdict for or against him according to
their temperance or anti-temperance
procihvi,ies, and that he is not opposed
to tie manufacture and sale of spirit.
nous liquor is pretty evident to any
one who has examined his printed ar
ticles. 1t is also plain that he enter
tains n particular dislike to Murphy
ism, and loves it none the more per-
haps for having measured swords with
some of its adherents and come off
second best in the encounter. He
says if it were not for the little contrO-
versary going on in the Hartford HER
AID and few tattered blue ribbons
worn by barefOOted urchins, Murphy
ism would be as dead as Cesar and
equally forgotten. The hundreds of
ladies and gentlemen in this county
who wear those blue ribbons will give
their united testimony against him.
Murphyism is rot dead but lives and
strengthens in the hearts of hundreds
of thousands of the American people.
lie denies masquerading in bor-
roved habilaments; but why does he
so persistently withhold his proper
name and re-hash his subject week af-
ter week over a nom de pLrnIc' That
fact per sc is an imputation against his
honesty, and affords sufficient evidence
that he does not wish to father in a
legitimate way his literary paintings.
Perhaps it Is his prime ambition to
furnish the world with few immortal
masterpieces of anti-temperance litera-
ture. and,slike the celebrated Junius,
die iIIcogltitO.h a sg
Outsider is evidently afflicted
with cacOsthss scribepdi; or, in other
words, with an itch for writing. and
his articles afford practical illustra-
ton OF the fact that the pen as well as
the tongue runs the faster the less
weight il carries and he possesses the
ability indispensable to all lOng-winded
authors-tO. write as we'll without an
idea as with one; and his subject az
fords ample room for the exercise Of
this popularity in bis genius. His
talents suit his exigency; for if there
ever was cause perfectly sinless of
any argument 10 support it, it is his.
BY an extraordinary effort Of his vast
analytic and synthetic powers, he has
+arrivedat- the conclusion that the only
way to put . stop to the evils of in
TEN perance Is to hermetically close up
the saloons. But unfortunately for his
sagacity he can not claim this as his
discovery and if he could, il would
prove abOrtive in practice for if the |
saloons were closed the merchants
would fill their cellars with liquor, and
sell it By the quart. u and the
case would be as bad as ever.
We Murphyites propose to put a stop
to the evils of strong drink, by stop
ping its manufacture and importation,
and my word for it, the saloons will
not long remain open. The under
taking is a herculean one, but we believe
it can be accomplished. In order to
succeed in this, the national mind must
be aroused, the national heart must be
fired, until the people of the whole
country act IN concert, and march
shoulder to shoulder against the COM
mon enemy. The prospect is encour-
aging. We see our hest citizens fall
ing into the temperance ranks, while
drunkenness is continually sinking TO a
lever and lower grade of men. Drunk
ards are being more and more elimina-
ted frnm good society, while sober men
are beginning to regard them without
any degree of allowance. The impres.
sion is being rapidly made on the pub
lie mind. that for man to be respect
able, he must be sober, thai 10 have the
confidence of his acquaintance, he
must he, sober, that to represent the
people in legislative bodies, he must be
sober; that to hold any Office of honor