Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1882-02-17
THE HERALD ANSWERED.
A Ventilation Of the Boosted
Morality OF New Workers.

Charges True-Nevada Thanks
IN Lord for Comparative Clear
Illness.
1t will be remembered that the New York
Herald OF Jan. % exhausted its vocabulary
of abuse on Nevada and her people. The
BATTLEFRONT State was designated as the
"'boy fiend' Of the Union by this great
metropolitan journal. 1t informed us
.how insignificant and vile we are. ma
terially, politically and socially. From
the scandalous article OF our tremendous
contemporary, the world has got the i'm
preston that our population are a herd Of
blackmailers, suffrage sellers and thieves;
that Nevada, in the basest sense of the
term. is the "rotten borough" Of the
United States.
Now, this is an old story, and oft re-
peated in the East to our disadvantage and
to the shame of the story tellers. Our
population is sparse. but Nevada is State
Of immense prospect and possibilities.
Her mineral resources are practically
inexhaustible, and she has contributed
vastly more to the wealth OF nations than
the State Of Connecticut, since her Terri
torial organization, though she is con-
temptuously compared by the Herald with
the little old Puritan village OF New Haven.
But all this is q matter Of statistical in
formation. The census lately taken sets
US right on this score. The Herald article
hurts much less in this direction than it
does in setting us up as a monster OF dis
honesty and vice, to be condemned and
Stunned by the commercial world with
whom we have to do. As far as this de-
NAL will reach, let it be understood that
we claim to be no worse than other men
or women are. While our community is
speculative and extravagant in its affairs,
as is true OF all mining spheres in which
chances are to be taken on what will be
reached in the bowels of the earth, while
we may plead guilty to q spirit for gam
bling and hazard, we do esteem our rep
utation dear; we do place the good name
Of our families beyond all price. The
worst that we do is conspicuous, hence,
probably, we may appear worse than we
are. We are not whited sepulchres, all
dazzling without and filled with dead
mems bones inside.
At all events, our public schools are
temples Of education for the people, and
above the breath Of scandal. No ladies in
the land are Of purer character or finer
sensibilities than the female teachers in
the State of Nevada. Let us view a picture
Of this important feature Of public life in
our self-constituted censor of the peoples
morals. New York City, whose trumpet
the Herald pretends to be. Should the
hideousness and bestiality that it reveals
open the eyes Of the Herald and induce
it, as the Hercules Of American Journal
ism. to Engage in one Of its seven appro-
pirate labors and turn its foods upon the
Augean stables under its own nose, in
stead Of scenting filth 5000 miles away,
our object In reproducing the following
letter will have been accomplished. With
this wholesome purpose in view it is super
fuous TO apologize to the prurient for the
utter plainness OF the communication:
THE LETTER.
CHERRY CREEK New, Feb. Ia, 1882.
EDITOR S-ESTISKL-SrR: Some time ago
/ noticed in the SENTINEL an editorial on
the subject OF Henry Ward Beecher's as
sertion that Brooklyn school teachers got
their positions in the public schools by
pandering to the lust OF politicians, and Of
his afterwards retracting the same. As !
was born and reared in New York City,
and have lived for years in Brooklyn, per-
haps, Mr.. Editor, you will be kind enough
to allow me the privilege Of making q few
remarks on this subject. II the evil
stopped at the
DEBAUoH OF scHooL TEACHERS
Alone, I would have nothing to say on the
a,thtanf. ht,t N nfnrf,. m tair 70 Aoaa MT, Ton
the politicians Of New York and Brooklyn
often require them to act as PROGRESSES
for them-and, remember. this means the
seduction Of the school children and darker
evils still. But perhaps you may ask why
did Beecher retract his assertion? Be-
cause he is in the power Of the politicians,
and il they chose they could ruin him. In
fact, the Democratic portion Of them would
have done 80 long ago only that his Re-
publican friends protected him, for Mrs.
Tilton was not the only one he sinned
with. These facts are well known in Brook
Ign and elsewhere. OF course it is one
thing to be morally certain and quite an
other to be legally SO. II, however, you
have any doubts on the subject please ap-
ply to Mr.. Bowen, the well known Brooklyn
publisher and dabbler in literature--my
life on his answer. With regard to the
subject Of politicians debauching school
teachers, / thought that was such a well
known fact as to be beyond dispute. If
am mistaken most every intelligent person
in either New York or Brooklyn is in the
same fix. Certain 1t is that on three diff
ferent occasions / have heard female school
teachers admit their guilt with politicians,
and two out Of the three boosted OF 1t. I
also assure you that l have known seven-
teen school teachers in New York City,
three in Brooklyn and q in Philadelphia,
all OF whom, I am morally certain, had
cARNAL COMMERCE WITH POLITICIANS.
1 also assure you that I have frequently
seen female school teachers in houses Of
assignation, and even regular brothels-
how many times 1 could not say-but I am
certain between thirty and forty times al
together. and perhaps even more. OF
course you'll think I must have been there
or ! could not have seen them. II any per-
son should put that question to me l would
unhesitatingly nsw Eyes, l was there"
for whatever faults I may have, ! am neither
q liar nor q hypocrite. / am a single man,
and my morals. I suppose, are like those
OF single men In general, perhaps worse.
But one thing / never did dol never de-
bauched a child, and I believe no true
man ever did, and any man who 10 guilty
OF that offense should be sent to State
Prison. at least that is my opinion, and it
IL because school teachers act as procur-
esses for politicians and other leeherous
scoundrs els. and allow them to debauch
young school children, that I have any
thing to say on the subject. The way
they manage to corrupt the children Is
often as follows; II
A PRETTY CHILD rs sPorTED
Or marked for ruin, the teacher will pet
and caress her till he gains the love of the
child, and will send her with q parcel or
package to a house OF questionable reputa-
ton or some house where her ruin can be
accomplished, and instruct her to wait till
she gets a receipt, or till she sees q certain
party. When the child goes to the house
she 10 made welcome, petted. caressed and