The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1881-10-13

should be removed. AS the gallows is one
of the best means of preventing murder, SO
| fine and imprisonment is one Of the best
means of curing drunkenness.
The utterances of the evening paper, in
the discussion of the county pauper ques-
ton, which has been carried on lately be-
| tween it and THE BULLETIN, have been
nothing but a series of laundering critic
isms, uncalled for viifications, gross mis-
| representations and, we can not help but
believe, willful falsehoods. If they have
not been the last named, they must have
been all the others and must have resulted
from an ignorance of the facts concerning
the subject of which they treated that was
really deporable and objectionable in any
newspaper writer. The evening paper be-
gan by blaming the city officers for not
taking charge of the man Woodgate, when,
fit had taken the trouble to post itself, it
would have found that the ordinances of
the city did not make it the duty of police
officers to take charge of any such cases,
and that the officers were not furnished
with the necessary conveniences for doing
so. THE BULLETIN informed the
evening paper of these facts
and believed all was we'll.
But, alas The next issue of the evening
paper vilified the city authorizes for failing
to take charge of the wounded man and for
allowing him to suffer so long without at
tention, when the truth was that the man
had come to his injuries by and upon the
property of the railroad company and
through the neglect Of one of the company's
officials and that the authorities in ques-
ton were not notified and did not know of
the injured man until seven hours after he
had been injured. THE BULLETIN mildly
informed the evening paper of these facts
and then reposed swectly in the conscious
ness of duty well performed. But it was
too sanguine of success The evening
paper began to give evidence Of the stub
born obtuseness, or wilful dishonesty, or Il
most aggravating habit Of misunderstand-
ing everything and everybody that has
| characterized it ever since. II next in
formed its readers that there were no means
provided by either city or county
authorities for taking care of sick
| poor, when the county board has
always set aside two thousand dollars per
year for that especial purpose, and the city
council appropriated large amount of
money every year for the same purpose; then
that the marine hospital was being imposed
| upon because of the failure on the part of
the authorities to provide means for caring
for sick poor, and that it was great aid to
the charitable people Of the community in
that it cared for many chraity cases during
a year, all this, too, in the face of the fact
that the marine hospital never treated
single charity patient, even for five minutes,
or TO the extent of one cent. And so on
for whole week or more, disappearing
the truth, either purposely or
ignorantly, and then vllifying the officers
OF the city and county, because they did not
act in accordance with the false and foolish
views so ignorantly or dishonesty put forth
THE BULLETIN followed each untruthtul
statement Of the evening paper
with the truthful one, but was
compelled to present the most positive
proof in every instance before the evening
paper would cease reiterating its false
hoods. But it dared not pursue this policy
any further and finally submitted in stolid
silence to the just chastisement admins
tered unto it by The BULLETIN with lis
| little hatchet--truth But the truth stunr,
as it always does, and on Monday the even
ing paper summoned up courage enough
to resume its former disgraccful course.
Being compelled to acknowledge that 1t
had done the authorities an injustice, it
sought to wrigglo out Of its uncomfortable
position in the only way it could, i. G. by
further falsehoods--by pretending that its
former misrepresentation we're truths and
its vilifcations just, but that the authorities
intimidated by its utterances, had now
changed their course toward the county
poor and had instructed the county over
seer Of thepoor, DR.. Wood, to treat cases
that he did not formerly treated This state
ment is cmphatically denied by DR.. Wood
himself, who says that he has received no
instructions whatever within the last year
from the board of commissioners, looking
to change in the policy pursued by him
toward the city and county poor Thus
falls the latest Misrepresentation; but we do
not expect that the evening paper will &C.
knowledge IL the tonaciousncss with which