Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1879-09-13
TaE SAX r.Axc,>co CHRONICLES

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We believe that tho Chro~ie,e newspaper
Il Q most debauched, unprincipled and
oharacterless sheei; that 10 has done more
within three years to disgrace. di.honor
aud injure San Francisco than all other
causes combined; that its suspension and
death would 10 . healthfal thing for the
morals, the welfare and prospsrity OF our
eity, aud that the death OF Its two pro-
prieton would be = lees serious calamity
than tho survival Of this most pestiient
and villainous Of all newspApers.-Ar-
yosaut. IL
Yea, verify. that wicked Journal did
drive ahead and flourish like unto .
green bay horse. although people per.
ceived its exceeding lswdnsss and in
hersnt cussednsss. And II was not
altogether among the upgodly jewellers
In San Francisco that the charscterlsss
sheet did altogether flourish either. but
IL penetrated unto the uttermost parts
Of the land. Even good men took 1t
because OF its wide-awake proclivities.
and propensity for giving all the news
from everywhere. regardless OF trouble
or expense. They did not look to 1t for
anything like straightforward moral REQ
tituds or honest principles for Ii never
had any. and whom they saw articles in
81 which narrowed their political souls
and gave them q moral dyspepsia, or
read some demoralizing sensation
through to the bitter end with many q
conscientious groan or q sigh they would
cast II impstisntly aside. muttoring their
wonder that any such newspaper should
bs allowed to live and circulate in any
well regulated community. But they
kept ON taking it all tho anne. The
Chronicle has also served a good purpose
in the matter Of comparison. as showing
the difference between q scandalously
wicked journal and all tho others. so
moral, honest and heightened, published
in that same city near the ocean.washed
portals Of the Golden Gate. The Chron-
iole has seemed to be q necessary evil. .
sort Of journalistic pirate or devil. com.
pared with which the Argoaaa wanted
to DO an angel OF light and pattern Of
true moral and literary rectituds. 1t
was an Ishmasl. against whom tho hands
Of Its journalistic contemporaries were
always raised. yet which did not care q
curse for any Of them. The Chronicle
followed its own shameless. unprinci-
pied courss regardless Of good or bad
opinions. aiming high or low as its mer.
canary management saw at. and as
ready and willing to blackmail a saint as
to curry favor with the devil; the chief
organ OF q high aspiring political party
and OF q walking match at the same
time. It's keen management never lost
sight Of the loayes and fishes in either
case.
The serious tribulation recently brought
down upon the Chronicle with q ruinous
crash by the wildly injudicious and
cowardly assassination act OF De Young
was q source OF Joy to all its contempor-
aries. Especially gratiaed was the
stately, prim old Cal. Pickering smiled
~bsnignantly as he dry washed his hands.
rubbing them gently over and over each
other. as he fslici:ously remarked: 'Ah!
now's my opportunity; I must improve
1t. There's business. there's nutriment
In It," And 80 earnestly did he work
to make tho Cal prosper on the down.
fall Of the Chronicle that everybody saw
II and commented unfavorably upon the
idea. Indeed so emulatively ambitious OF
stepping into the shoes Of the apparently
dying Chronicle did the Call become. that
1t oven stepped over the bounds Of its
old.maidish reserve aud discreet prudish-
ness. and its last Sunday issue equalsd
the Chronicle in its nastiest days.
De Young Is in trouble now. and the
Chronicle is under o cloud. II Is indeed
fortunate for him and his paper that
Kalloch did not die; also that his intend
cd victim was not q man OF better moral
worth and higher standing in society.
The storm Is passing away. and men,
cries OF current events are not long in
fading into oblivion. Tue De Young.
Nspthaly scrapc subsidized quietly into
the shade, and so too in time will the
De Young-K alloch scrape. Both were
cowardly affairs. and the principal actors
in each were oil pretty much the same
style Of men. But will the Chronicle
ever regain its former condition Of
wicked prosperity Will the people ever
become refined aud educated mp to q
condition Of society which will refuse to
support such o paper rs the Chronicle has
been and necessarily must be under the
same management Time alone can and
will solve the problem.