Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1878-07-02

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bellion broke out, it would have favored
the dissolution of the Union and the rec
ognition Of the Confederate States. If it
were printed in Peking, Constantinople,
Rome, Moscow, or Edinburgh, it would
favor Buddhism, Mohammedonism. Ca
tholicism, the Greek or Protestant Church,
md would advocate any faith and uphold
any superstition favored by a majority of
its advertisers and readers. If it were at
Salt Lake, its proprietors would take
A PLURALITY OF WIVES.
In order to increase its circulation among
their wives relations. If the mob ever
gained a~scendancy, and by crime and vic
lence accomplish the utter subversion Of
the rights of property, and the overthrow
of all government and social order, the
press will howl in sympathy with the Wild
est u~tterances of the proletaire. If corpo-
rations absorb the wealth and enslave per-
sons of the community, the press of San
Francisco will uphold them, do their bid
ding, md excuse their acts, just so long
and just to the extent that it will pay.
The party press does anything to excuse
and palliate q party crime. The religious
press supports and advocates the faith and
dogmas Of the congregation that supports
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and combats the faith of every opposing
sect in utter disregard of sense or reason.
Journals devoted to special interests would
destroy any other industry that stands in
the way of the one whose slave tnev have
become. Journals established in the inter
est Of orders, classes or nationalities, are
just as narrow, bigoted, ~prejudieed, pas
sionate and stupid, as the order, class or
nationality to which they belong, and by
which they are governed.
The newspaper press of San Francisco is
as full of
JEALOUSY, MEAN RIyALG
And contemplate competition as it can
possibly be. To such an absurd extent is
this carried, that if one journal happens to
be the first to advocate a good measure, or
a good man, or applaud a good deed, the
others will denounce and oppose.
If one suggests a matter of i'm
portance to the public welfare, or
calculated to promote the public good,
another will resist it, unless it can
prove by its files that it was the first to
originate the idea. If one could suggest a
specific for a contagious disease, or dis
cover a preventive to the spread of contla-
grations, or the occurrence of earthquakes,
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demic continue, and would rather see the
city burned or destroyed by c~onvulsion
than that its rival should be credited with
the suggestion that secured safety.
The San Francisco press never agrees
upon any important question, never was and
never will be a unit upon any important
proposition. When the Germans threat
ened Paris its press co-operated to support
a government that would resist an in
vasion. If the lice and frogs Of Egypt, and
the rats of Norway, and the graSshoppers
of Kansas should besiege San Francisco,
the press would divide-some for the lice
and frogs, and some for the rats, and some
for the grasshoppers, each exercising its
best judgment and using its best efforts as
to which would get III first.
CowARDICE
Is another distinguishing trait of
the press of San Francisco. Its bold
ness is mere bravado; its fearless position
is never taken except it is backed by
money or the mob; its attitude is always
one Of expectation; Now and then it storms
with sheet iron thunder. Now it swaggars
with its coat OF mail covering its back, eX-
pecting to be kicked as it turns to run
then it menaces with a stuffed club, and,
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some bank, or corporation, or party, o. To-
cal interest, determined persistently to
grind ont its unearthly and discordant
music, till it is. paid to move on. 1t is
usually paid. and it always moves on. Tit
press of san Francisco never takes an I'M
popular, and, at the same time unprotit-
able position, if it knows it. 1t sometimes
make mistakes. Sometimes the passion Of
the proprietor overcomes his judgment,
sometimes audacity is relied upon to get
out of a bad place. and sometimes there is
an apparent standing up for the rights Of
the people, III the hope that it will pay in
the long run.
We have known it for months to play a
wagon road against a railroad, but finally
it was
SPIKED WITH \ GOLDEN SPIKE.
We have seen the members Of a corpora
ton denounced, abused, slandored and vii
flied, and, in turn, have seen the same
men eulogized, praised and commended TO
the highest point Of laudatory and fulsome
exaltation. We have seen a banking and
a stock operating firm fairly ~beslobbered
with nauseous adulatiOn, and then again,
as the result Of a { disastrous turn OF stocks
or an accommodating kick from an I'M
comfortable corner, We have seen the
heavy press become Indignantly %virtuous
and denunciatory of the very men around
whose table it had hung for crumbs, and
have heard the NANCY dog bark and howl
at those whose sores it had before so sla-
vishly licked.
We have seen the
BLAcKMAILER OF TIE PRESS
OF San Francisco, carrying his flag nailed
at the mast, boldly Haunting it over his
pirate deck; have heard him proclaim
that his guns were double-shotted for a
broadside of slanderous defamation. We
have watched the explosion, and it was a
blank cartridge we have waited, and
heard no report; the guns had been spiked.
We have seen the other and less respecta-
BILE of the freebooters' craft slip out in the
disguise of commercial Responsibility from
its hiding place under the Isle of Pines,
and in the dark steal up and stab the hon
or of a citizen, the standing Of a mer-
chant, the credit of n banker. We have
seen proud, honest, ambitious public men
assailed and driven out of public life in the
Indulgence of some mean revenge. We
have seen idiots, dolts and dunderheadS
dragged from the s6cluslon of private life,
their stupidity made to do duty for integri-
ty, and their obseurity made to stand for
good character. We have seen a pious ass
placed upon the bench because he was a
good man
We have great contempt for the press of
San Francisco, because it is insolent, auda-
cious, vain-glorious, boastful and coward
w. 1t is worse than the men who own it
and
COP KNOWS THEY Il BAD ENOUGH. ..
There is a degree of ~mendacity, cowardice
and responsibility attaching to types,
presses and paper that is, if possible, even
more cowardly and more contemplate
,bor tho man who control them. The pro-