Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1882-02-11
INDECENT REORGANIZATION.

INDECENT RECRIMINATION.
The editors of the Enterprise and
Chronicle recently disagreed as to the
.propriety of the act of the County Com
missioners in rendering the freedom of
the city to Mr.. Healy, the Irish Land
League orator. The controversy, which
was one of public interest and fit for
newspaper discussion, soon lost its
proper aspect, however, and ~degenerated
into a bitter personal quarrel between
Mr.. Arthur McEwen and Mr.. H. G.
Shaw, the editors of the Chronicle and
Enterprise, respectively. The columns
Of these papers for two weeks have
teemed with gross personal abuse. The
latest battle in this wal of coarse words
is graphically described in a short para
graph from the Chronicle of Thursday
afternoon. The Chronicle had passed
some rather severe structures upon the
policy of collecting money in this coun-
try and sending it away to pay the ex-
penses Of missionaries for the conversion
of the heather, the Chinese for example,
when the same work could be done as
effectually at home with less cost in
p~roselyting the Piutes. To this article
the Enterprise made a reply, referring to
his antagonist as "Mickewen, the i'm
mortal writer" and charging him with
casting slurs upon religion. "Mr. Yer
ington's Liverpool cad" was the pet
name which the editor of the Enterprise
received in the controversy. 1t must be
understood that all through the wrangle
the Chronicle editor has chosen to con-
slider MI. H. M. Yerington, the Superin.
tendent of the Virginia and Truckee
Railroad, as the only one responsible for
the utterances Of the Enterprise, and to
ignore as much as possible Mr.. Shaw.
who it asserts, with what reason is best
known to itself, is but the mouthpiece of
Mr.. Yerington, who dictates the policy
of the Enterprise. All of which leads to,
and explains, this Chronicle paragraph
which was referred to above:
"Mr. Yerington, In his paper this morn
ing. makes the very just remark that mo
one ever heard of a Piute buck being sued
for divorce upon immoral grounds Mr..
Yerington might have added that no one
ever heard either of a Piute buck having
married clerks in his employ making the
virtue of their wives the price of the hus-
bands positions"
The SENTINEL has no reason to enter
tain any feeling against either of the
parties to this squabble. Though the
fight is none of ours, it has assumed such
phases as entitle any journal to discuss
it. We would like to know what bear
ing a suit for divorce against the editor
Of either of these papers. on the ground
Of immortality, has to do with the merits
of the question, whether it is not better
policy to spend at home some of the
missionary fund that is usually sent
abroad. And we would like to know, this
question being quite as pertinent as the
other, what relationship there is between
the grant Of the freedom of Virginia
City and the fact (if possible) that Mr..
Yerington hires clerks on the Virginia L
Truckee Railroad, the ''price of whose
places is the virtue of their wives? 7"
The plain fact of the case is, that this
is a very bad and unseemly piece of bust.
ness all around. Because a man happens
to have the privileges OF a newspaper he
acquires no right thereby to infict his
private animosities upon the public,
who can have no interest in such trash.
The man who uses his paper as his mere
personal organ to abuse private citizens
is as plainly and as grossly in the wrong
as they, and does infinitely more harm
in proportion to his power as q writer
than Tom, Dick, or Harry, who placards
conspicuous places on the streets with
villainous scandals at the expense of
his neighbor.
When a newspaper writer deliberately,
and out of spleen, makes such q vile
charge-it cannot be called an ~insinua-
the Chronicle INDUCES itself in,
he ought to be made to substantiate it.
to suffer a penalty ten fold more
severe than the slanderer gets who hurts
,nly by word of mouth. The scandal in
his case, to one knowing the many ex.
,ellent gentlemen and their worthy
whose character is belied and
whose reputation is besmirched by the
mad utterances. appears
'ruel, inhuman and monstrous. If it
'hould involve its author in the most
'erious consequences that can be appre.
there will be no surprise.
MR. TILDEN.