Mexico weekly ledger., 1882-04-06

! little tilt-hammer.
The Sentinel, by intention, is elevated
I in its general tone, deals plainly, never
masks its batteries, and lays claims to
/ unauestloned independence in its man
! agement.
Hence, without consulting him of the
LEDGER, the pertidious pander to the
tastes Of the vicious caaaiUe, we opened
F; ourcolumns for the full and free discus
{ siona both sides of the temperance aues-
+, ton waffecting the people of Pike county.
! This GEMS greatly to have annoyed the
sapbst philosopher of Mexico, especially
rs Elder E.. b. Cake, of this city, against
, when be acknowledges an old grudge,
} sawatto enter into the discussion.
! Knowing the party who wrote at least
F., oned the "letters' referred to in the
article under review, We think we under
stand the true animus of this whole mat
ter, as being an adrOit scheme to lead us
Z into the labyrinth of an interminable dis
c~ussion, characterized on the one side by
4 v~illainous mendacity, vituperation and
i epihet, which, though it might cause the
bIatant rabble to yell and applaud, would
outrage common decency and become Il
public disgrace. But the gentleman has
set his trap too far out in the swale, and
besides We don't like the smell of the bait.
Now, Mr.. Cake is no more to us than
! any other friends, but at the same time
the cravan poltroon of the LEDGER shall
/ not hide behind the Sentinel and SLAYER
over US with his scorpion broth and spu-
tum in order to get at him. If the LEDGER
man wishes to display the natal powers
Of his groveling intellect by becoming the
ehampion-we say if the boastful brag-
CART wishes to enter the arena us the
champion Of whisky, let him throw open
the columns of his paper like Il man hav-
Ing the courage to brook results, and, if
=: be like, challenge Mr.. Cake to the contest,
or else, when writing for our benefit,
cease his whining and stop his silly whim-
IperiRg about being attacked ''from some
cause unknown" Let him stop skulking
behind the screen of public indulgence,
imagining that he has full license t 0 strut
and swell around, assuming to intimi-
date theIpress, the platform and even the
pulpit, by a species of insiduous attack at
once as Internal as it is knavish and COW
ardly.
He orders us to be silent with a threat.
But We are not alarmed. If, according to
the Darwinian theory of development, he
had turned up a shark instead of the
ghouiish biped he is, We would cross a
bayou on him the same as on an inert log.
By the way, how would he like to have a
hundred or SO copies of this issue of the
Sentinel distributed at Mexico, to be fol-
lowed by others containing rasping strict
ures, in our peculiar way" upon the
demoralizing tendency of an aggressive,
venal type of journalism? Each week here
after We shall expect him to open the
/ sewer pipe of the LEDGER and pour forth
a sluice of odoriferous OoZe until reaction
from a disguised community ut home
shall set in against him. Several instances
are on record in which u young, bastard
'cus>" Of similar ilk and caliber about
black@uarded himself out of business.
And if he is judiciously provoked-and it
seems that We have some talent in that
direction-he will doubtless some day
reach just such a fear of exhaustion as
will probably improve his Does
he discover any 'grim humor'' in this!
or Is 1t merely the senseleSs grin of a
'''pctrifed ~cadaver!" We shall pay nc
further attention to his dirty billingsgate
except, perhaps, when from the slums
and slimevats he too near US and
happens to raise his head above the grass
land then We will smite him with Il barb
iStiil, seasel pro semper ct stimuli, 81 tts pa
c"m.-CiarksriUe Sentinel.
j Whom the gods would destroy.
they first make mad" Well, We
should smile. ''What is it," We
give it up. No, the above is a liter
AIRY curiosity of the too-tooly kind.
and one hat we cannot ever trans
late, much less answer, as we are not
,conversant with that style of literature,
We are in the fix the old man was
whose pumpkins all rolled out OF the
wagon as he was going up hill. The
.end gate of his wagon fell out at the
bottom of the hill. and when he go'
ito the top he looked around and saw
all of his pumpkins on the ground
Several of the neighbors who hao
been hiding near by stepped out
very much surprised that the old MAJ
Smiled as he did. He said: "Hello
boys; what do you look so funny
%syabout:' They replied: "We arr
Surprised that you did not cuss, a
Nou have the reputation of being
very profane man." ''Cuss, hip
he replied; ''do you think 1 coul'
lilo the subject justice? Now, tn
editor of this paper may have tn
Reputation of being a rough writer
but he cannot do the above subjec
Justice. We may DE mistaken, bu
se should judge from the dignifie'
lone of the article, and the elegan
fiow of language. that the writer wa
j. certain minister. Now, don't un
sllerstand us to insinuate that f. b
Cake wrote it, for we don't think
Bounds like him; but we have hear
hat the editor of the Sentinel wa
Formerly a minister. We should low
10 hear one of his sermons. Ii h
sHote the above, how far can ne D
rom home? Truly, it does him grea
9.redit, and surely he will get his re
ward. We have been reliably III
Formed who the author is, and h
Need not have put himself to til
. trouble to send copies OF the pape
b citizens here for distribution FIRE
IL charge. We reproduce his article
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