The Bozeman weekly chronicle. (Bozeman, Mont.) 1883-1889, 1883-07-25
Correspondence.
Accused OF IN objectionable Act
Frightful Charge, Terrible II True.

After rejecting seriously over the edi-
torials of the Courier, of the 18th inst,
the conclusion at which We have legiti.
mately arrived is, that the editor when
preparing the matter for its constitution
must have been bilious, irritable, male
decent and spasmodical. After exhausting
his cormorant bitterness and vulturous
rapacity ON the editor of the Independent,
he shot his arrows at us, dipped in the
envenomed poison of contemplate
meaness. He has accused us of an UNI
pardonable act, frightful charge, terri
bile if true. Such an injustly, audacious
assertion we virtually believe is utterly
destitute of truth. 1t is the natural pro-
duct of an ungenerous, shrivelled and
petri6ed soul. When we were called
upon to sketch q few items relative to the
picnic at Willow creek, we were not
aware of mourning the pitchy frown and
middleton of the puissant editor of the
Courier; neither were we apprised that
we inexcusably violated the grand prin-
ciples of journalism by sending the same
article to two city papers simultaneously;
hence we do not regard it as an "un-
pardonable act,"' as the editor heretically
surmised. Where is any warrant for
such clamorous and temerarious asser-
ton? We answer nowhere except in the
ruffled brain of the editor of the Courier.
We have been acquainted with Journal
lists all our lives, wrote much, and talked
much, but we were never informed of
these "unpardonable acts"' and criminal
offences before, but we rejoice because
such gallant Columbus has appeared in
the closing decades of the nineteenth
century, to explore continents of thought,
navigate the illimitable sea of facts, throw
light and lustre upon the science of jour-
nalism and when in the ineffable splen-
dors of a lovlier morn seeing that We
have such q brilliant iNumanati and &C.
complished HHerateur looming up like the
Pickering flashes and coruscations from
the magic lantern we suppose a new
order of things are to be introduced, a
new epoch formed upon the journalistic
calender, and grander achievements to
be wrought upon the journalictic stage.
How complicate, how august, how won
derfnl is man." If the sapient editor Of
the Courier with all his infinite knowl-
edge Of journalism can vertically show
that our act is highly reprehensible &C.
cording to the custom and principles of
journalism we will sincerely repent of
our deed, and faithfully promise We will
never be guilty of such an ahdacious
crime again; but we are convinced this
cannot be done, for we see the same
thing precisely carried out upon papers,
that wofully eclipse the Courier as much
as the glorious sun out dazzles the stars.
We advise such fossilized custodian of
wisdom to study the first principles of
journalism, and then he will cease his
clamorous twang about an objectionable
act" and the like malicious statements.
He had better save his censorial fires to
thaw out his iceberg agnosticism, instead
Of trying to burn those who are "indolent
and decline to work in warm weather."
The empirical editor is yet in the swad-
ding clothes of his editorial infancy, and
ought not to be held strictly and abso-
lutely accountable for the indiscretions,
mistakes and errors of inexperience. He
will get out of the dreams and visions of
childhood by and by, and by applying a
little ointment night and morning it will
serve to make his intellectual joints the
more flexible. Does the agnostical lion
Of the Courier desire to lay his controver-
steal paws upon us, if he does we shall
endeavor to ward off all critical bites of
the more rapacious kind.
]. B. WHITFoRD.