Daily Los Angeles herald., 1879-03-22
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tsImp OF help and "hell bound
lloln'' ~, with deep humility, we
nfoas ourselves to be, If we accept
" new Kearney gospel; opposed
evsFy form OF violence for opin-
@1'o oeke; reverencing, as we do,
oo speech as the Palladium of our
1bertles, We are not prepared to
<odorSo pure blackguardism. 1t
somewhat singular that Denis
koarney had to come down to one of
10 sscow counties'' to strike q deep
nEraiued chord of American man
ood. The coarse and brutal per-
ANAL assaults OF Denis Kearney
Iave been dIgnified with the name
politice! The fact is that he has
1on amply . licensed scold who,
. the old days, In England, would
&ve been treated TO the "cucking
locl." Every movement Of this
S1ftical .mashern has run In the
Move Of 'sD-n your eyes, pm the
Ioat washed blackguard. Deny
that I say and ysur teeth will be
nocked down your throat"
while, ~ we have said, we dep
nGcats violence in politics, we are
kot In = mood of mourning which
on't admit Of consolation in know
E1ne that, In the ''cow countless"
kis 6laskguard Roland has met q
unusoular and determined Oliver.
! ~ are told, In the scriptures, that
~ who takes the sword shall per-
inh BY The sword. This august
ophorism may be paraphrased
tkus: 'sHe who makes of his Jaw
hone an instrument of aggression
and : dlssemInator of scandalsS
shall have his jawbone, even
though it be that Of an ass, broken,
by people Of his own kind. The fell
1ows who Introduces this new style
of American politics must fight it
out on that line, though it
1nkes all summer, without
any special interest from US. Had
Ksarney whipped Rule, instead of
Rule whipping Kearney. we doubt
very much whether the essential
11snes Of American politics would
have been changed one jot or title.
Bule may have made himself, by
The Santa Ana incident, Us big q
4 blackguard a. Kearney. He could
not, under any circumstances, have
made himself q greater.
The one salient feature of the
whole thing fs that the "cow coun.
-1iea,l are ahead of the metropolis OF
the State In the political elements
which are represented by the bull
dog Instinct Of not suffering your
eelf to be out fough when it comes to
the grapple. Kearney has terror
4 ised San Francisco. He can't, by
several removes, intimidate the ro-
4 bust race Of his own kind which
inhsbits Southern California. 1t
has been established, lin fact, that-if
e bounce and violence are to be, In
< difference TO man who is scarcely
warm In his seat as an American
eltiEen, the leading element in
American politics, Denis Kearney
r. not the uncontested champion in
this novel arena. He will OCCASION
ally drop down upon people who
object to be gone over with the
mlButeness with which a Billings
gate fish wife dlsposes of her op-
ponent. Not every American will
eonsent to be blackguarded with
out Z blow.
We heartily hope that both Kear.
nsy and his more robust opponents
will, with infinite relief to every
body. disappear from the forum of
American politics. But, on the is
sus Of vigorous blackguardism thus
raised, the metropolis of the Golden
Gate has to lift Its beaver 10 the
South. We are told that when the
conquering army Of Alexander was
iii the full tide of its success 1t came
upon statue Of Osiris. The tradi.
lion was that II any human being
dared to raise his arm to strike the
efigy Of this deity the whole world
would crumble to pieces. A scep.
tical soldier Of Alexander deliber-
ntely lifted his mailed hand and
! struck the marble Osiris in the face.
It is hardly necessary to say that
the world did not crumble. A lot
/ Of very misguided people have ele-
waited Denis Kearney into an Osi-
rIs. Rule, Of Santa Ana, has
shown that II his blackguardlsm is
met with energy, Kearney, though
struck in the face, does not shiver
the world to pieces in his duplex
elliptIc wrath. Something learned
b something gained; and purely
local achievement, not derensible
ID point of taste or morals, and
which we repudiate In toto, but
very significant, Notwithstanding,
has been recorded, to which we in
vie the attention Of the over