Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1881-06-21
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TUESDAY EVENING. JUNEs2l, 1881.
Is whisky . Cooling Drink.
Governor Tom Young of Ohio, is very
humble man, indeed ; a deal too humble
for man to be, let alone a governor. he
writes to General Grant that he is
4" panied to read" in thenewspapers that
Grant in an interview took occasion
to allude to me as a liar" And he
declares 1 loved you as a soldier, and
I still admire you as a man, and your as.
sertion now that have lied about you, or
1 want to sbelittle' you, is both unkind
and unjust to me. There is but one man
in this great nation who could ever sue
ceed in belittling the great soldier and
statesman Of whom our nation is justly
proud, and that man is not your humble
friend,
That is very sweet in Governor Young.
He still admires" man who publicly
d" alludes'' to him as liar, but ventures
to oexpress an opinion that such allusion
is Z" unkind and unjust" to ono who is
his "humble friend' and has been his
active supporter. We are bound to say
that the governor is justified in ccnsid-
ering Grant unkind and unjust in call
ing his humble friend liar, particularly
when the humb ble friend shows that he
said nothing that was not true. 1t may
generally he said that when man call
another liar for telling the truth, he is
unjust, and not particularly kind but
when he thus abuses a faithful friend
who has spent his time and money fol
him, and is his friend Notwithstanding
he calls him liar, and he too, a COVER.
nor, the case seems to reach beyond the
power of language to do it justice.
We can't imagine how Gov. Young
attained to such sublime control of his
temper and to such intensity of patience
1t is not natural to the Irish character
and Young is an Irishnan in every fibre
and aspiration particularly in his fond
ness for whisky, which he drinks like
water and with as little disturbance OF
his equilibrium. The temperance So
cieties ought to devise some way Of get
ting Gov. Young away from public OBJ
servatiOn, for he does not illustrate the
beauties Of temperance and its close al
lance with Christianity. When so great
a topper shows himself to be so brilliant
a practiser of the Christian precept t(
love those that revile you, there is room
for the query as to whether it is moi
really the whisky that produces thi!
marked composure of temperament. l,
doesn't generally act in that way, it i:
true and may be it is only when taker
in large quantities, and all the time
as the governor of Ohio takes his
that its virtue is duly exhibited
Ifa barrel of whisky per week in fifteer
minute doses through tlo day and nigh
will induce an Irishman to turn his lef)
cheek to the smiter of his right, and Il
declare to the man who calls him a lial
that he is still his admirer and humble
friend, we trust that the editor of tin
Philadelphia Press will be induced t.
try the prescription. Congressman Beltz
hoover calls Mr.. Smith a liar and MI
Smith does not have anything bette
at hand to say than that Congressman
BeltzhOOver is another. The congress
man has the best of the issue, since III
proves by the witnesses of the Press tina
what it has said of him is not true
and there is therefore this variance from
the case of Grant and Young, wherein
Young showed Grant to be the liar
The editor of the Pres does not hav'
the same prOvocatiOn as kGOv. Young
seeing that he is not unjustly called ;
liar; and perhaps Gov. YOung's pre-
scriptiOn won't work in this compare
lively mild case Of injury. We shoul'
like, however, to see it tried, Just to b
satisfactorily assured that it is only whel
a man is incorrectly called liar tina
the consumption of liberal quantity o
whisky will serve to make him as cool a
cucumber under the provOcatiOn.
Congressman Smith, who is called lial
for telling the truth, will:consume bar
rel or two with Editor Smith, who il
called a liar for lieing, the efficiency o
the spiritual influence will be very salts
factorily tested.
It is by no means 4 new idea tina
whisky is cooling it is only in this cas-
a new application of an old notion 4
reporter of the Memphis Appeal de-
clares in the issue OF that paper of jun
18th, that an attache Of the court hOus
in that sun-stricken city said to hin
during his perspiriRg search after items
"You fellows have false idea of keep
ing cool. You drink ice water to keel
cool inside while outside you are yer.
hot. This is wrong. You should warn
your inside to correspond with your out
side. You should drink little whisk.
daily during the heated term" AM
Governor Tom YOung's refreshing cool
ness makes us suspect that there may b'
something in this advice. PerchaHc'
there is too much ice water consumed il
the Press office; for really it was toe
bad in it to accuse Congressman Beltz
hoover of lobbying at Harrisburg, givinl
its witnesses, and then to call him a lial
when its witnesses declared that he hat