Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1882-08-12
FOR HONESTY THER-FoR REPUTATION
NOW


A few months ago the Courier
Journal in advocating the accept
ance of the COG proposition said;
Tennessee has been cursed by the
most constituencies demagogues
outside of Virginia, and they have
ridden the party to defeat If not to
DEATH"
"Repudiation under the thinnest
disguise has been the popular pre-
text of the trimmers and Office
seekers, and under one plea and
another they lave succeeded in
postponing action or in defeating
settlement for ten years. Any sane
man, any man with any practical
ideas knows that by this postpone
ment and constant agitation, by
this tampering with public credit,
by this sycophantish Difference to
the will of the mob, Tennessee is
kept back in the race for wealth.
Her educational system is disOtgan-
lied, public morals are debased,
capital shuns her borders, commun-
ism grows apace. The debt stops
the way to all progress. 1t is the
overshadowing issue in all party
contests. 1t has been prolific of
every kind OF scandal. Ignorance
and corruption have joined hands
and the very name OF the State has
become a word Of reproach.
The proposition to settle at sixty
cents, with low interest, is certain
ly liberal one and the Legislature
is wise to accept it,"
How a respectable journal, which
hardly four month ago contained
the above utterances can now be
found advocating continuance of
the very evils against which it then
so earnestly warned the people of
Tennessee; how, we say, it can
now urge disruption of that same
settlement, is one of those things
that "passeth understanding"
Will it not tell us why, il four
months ago, "postponement and
constant agitation, tampering with
her public credit and sycophantish
Difference to the will OF the mob"
was keeping her back in the race
for wealth, the same direful influ-
ences will not retard her prosperity
now?
Can the great and good Courier
Journal honestly and conscientious
ly advocate measure of public pol
icy for neighboring State that it
emphatically declares "disorgani-
yes her educational system, debases
her public morals, makes capital
shun her borders and red handed
communism grow and flourish ?"
The CD. truthfully declares that
the debt stops the way to all prog
ress, and yet we find it urging the
claims of party especially pledged
to disrupt and destroy Il settlement
which only few short month ago
it said "was certainly Il liberal one
and the Legislature is wise to ac-
cept it,"
Is a paper that permits its col
umns to be prostituted to satisfy the
personal spite and revenge OF its
editor, and to this end throws its
honest convictions and teachings to
the winds, to have any weight or
be respected by intelligent men?
We think not. The CD. may be
popular for awhile in Tennessee by
its "sycophantish Difference to the
will of the mob" but it is not re-
spected by honest, fair-minded men
abroad nor even patronized at home,
as it was forcibly made aware OF
the other day when the Post went
into court and proved by affidavit
that its circulation in Jefferson
county was 1000 more than the
great CD, and thereby was award
ed the public printing.
To encourage reputation is not a
good step in any sense-honesty is
always the best policy.