The Leavenworth weekly times., 1879-07-17
TALE wuru A MORAL.

ia the Bur N oi July, one yeAf ago
F.rd W-nh.li, publisher Of the Daiiy |
Evening" frezs, ro.k sndden end French |
Iess. # rh.- a...,ru ppli-, leaving behind Lu-
merous sor. owing friends and dependent |
creditors, and twelve months later, upon
the came nation al hold .y his prototype, ].
Edward ESing, publisher of the Daily
Morning APpeal, makes his exit from the
scene Of action in the same manner and
under similar circumstance. There is a
moral attached to the story Of these two
peripstetic dead beats, who lived by their
wits and pursued course Of dishonesty
and swindIing in preference TO one OF busi-
ness integrity, but where such fellows are
known their course eKcites no
surprise whatever. To begin
with, neither came here with char
sc:er or capitsl; having no position to sus-
tain, they were not in any way sccounta-
bic to society or morality for what they
did; endeavoriny to depend for the support
OF their respective papers upon the hates
and pre- idice- Of a small and insignificant
portion Of the community, no one won
dered ~hen the fraii support gave way and
they found themselves in the slough Of
drb;, leaving no way hut flight as a passage
ont of their difficulties. Neither of the
papers inaugurated by,hese gentlemen were
born in rezponse to healthy sentiment; the
manner of their birth and the hard labor
attend Mt upon TIL, birth gave no
promise OF a Wig )rous lie, and these sheets,
fed upon the pep of revenge and personal
prejudice could do not otherwise than bsro :
ly exc cut miserable existence. Whether
or not there was anything peculiarly ap-
propriate in Messrs. Wendell and Ewing
choosing the national birthday as the date
of their fight may perhaps be a matter Of
contention, and then again the fs;es might
have Designated it as q mater Of poetical
Justice. When Deacon Houston took upon
himself the management of the Commercial
the proprietor of this paper gave him just
three years to run, and it was in that time
to a day, in fact, when the Deacon ceased
his editorial labors, laid down the "tfipod'
and the Commercial became merged into THE
TIMES. Strangely enough, toe, a national
hold iy was chosen as the date OF this great
consummaiion, for it was upoa the first day
of Janusry, 1876, when the Commercial
ceased to be.
Newspaper which expect to exist upon
the sole foul ljaIioa Of petty spite aud per-
sonsl pr jndice may profit by the examples
set them b, their predecessors. Ewing OBJ
tained 500 from l.. B Wheat, to aid in
the maintenance Of his Appeal. and yet Ex'
ing is fugitive from justice, and Wheat il
Just 40 much out of pocket and nothing to
chow for it. The ippeat was the official
orsan OF the Democr 4tic head Of the police
department, and yet with all the
official Influence exerted to keep i,
up it vent down to su untively grave and
there are noue 50 poor as to do its memory
reverence. We h ave endsavored TO illustrate
the moral which adorns this plain unvar-
nish.d tale Of " sndell and Ewing merely as
a matter OF warming to those who foBdly
i'm sgine that the expenses incident upon
the publication of a daily paper can be
paid in promises snd the pitiful donations
of those who seek TO vent their spit
sgain-t trose they don't like. Ewing
promised to paw and didn't, and the ocnse.
quence il that he is an ou,lrs, fugitive,
a wsud.rer from family snd home but
thi, il the ineyitabI. end of the swindier
and dead heat No newspaper can I've if
IL does not meet n want; il must fill place
and il there is no place to fill, starvation is
the inevitable consequence. Wendell de-
serted his family and Ewing has done the
same: both cheated their creditors and
were forced to seek safety in flight to pre-
vent the law taking its courss; both were
successful in making failures Of that bas-
tard journalism which the people could do
nothing else than repudiate, and thereby
1 hangs the moral of this tale