The Bozeman weekly chronicle. (Bozeman, Mont.) 1883-1889, 1884-02-20
RE corRIIx AND ITS EDITOR.

fHI CoCRIEx AND ITS EDITOR.
We have long ago needed the words
of political writer that ito argue with
man who has renounced his reason is
like giving medicine to the dead" The
Grand Mogul of the Cbssr;er does not pre-
tend to reason, he raves. impeaches and
essays to throw his vile culuminies in
ones face. We had hoped long ere this
that the incorrigible sophist Of Bozeman
would pass through a state Of purgation
and finally become man among other
men, but our hopes are blasted and our
prospects arc darkened. There is but
little redemption for an intellectual and
moral ASSASSIN who subsists on the offals
Of the characters he has assailed exert
ing an influence pestiferous as death and
- stenchful - the breath of hell. Tn
der his tongue there is the poison Of an
asp, Anger has usurped the authority
Of reason, and the volleys of sarcasm and
the floods of abuse has taken the place
Of facts. How shall we proceed to make
an appeal to such a deluded journalist
who knows Is much about the science Of
journalism - an hog does about the har-
mony Of the heavens? We admit that he
YIELDS atrenchant blade when INDUCING
in SANDER and personal epithets. But
such diatribes are better adopted to the
dsh market or the lowest haunts of pros
titution, and to show that the editor of
the Courier is an interruptions as he is
slanderous and hypocritieal We will show
in the calcium light of truth that the ed
itorial slip contained in late issue is
false IN spirit and detail and is the nat
ural outerowth Of vile caluminator.
True it is that some time ago we penned
= series of articles for the Courier. We
assayed to festoon its dry and sapless
bones with such productions as the peo-
pie Of Gallatin county needed. Although
fully convinced ut the time that to robe
such paper :th anything like reason
or logic or ri ,oric would be similar to
the dressing = # monkey in Oriental
costume Thereby rendering the monkey
the more hideous and the contrast the
more astounding. But in spite of our
convictions We sent few articles which
the agnostic crocodile of the Courier de-
devoured in a voracious manner. Now
and then eulogies would appear and for
time the learned ~ apostate sought to
WOO with amorous kisses our affection.
We were reminded of La Place billing
and cooling Napoleon. But man that
will prove false to his God will prove
false to q friend. Soon the scene changed.
The fine gold dimmed and again we have
another example Of consummate hypoc-
ricy. Our belief is staggard, imagination
and we are lost in the con-
of the heights and depths Of
the rambling malice, the matchless men,
dacity. The clamorous rawlings into
which poor, shrunken, sordid soul may
be driven by It's editorial animosities. |
Not an article that we penned for the
Courier Was rejected, except our reply to
The critic, VINO imagined he disintegrated |
Dur arguments and hurled us beneath the
dark warteu Of oblivion. Every "dose'
We forwarded acted as a counter-irritant
md anti-spasmodic pill for the editor,
who seemed At times to be troubled with |
'pasms and convulsions, but being of the
bilious temperament, he preferred tur-
bulence to mildness, communism to con-
servatism. Such a man would stick
pins in, babies and realize infinite
pleasure in hearing them cry. Let not
such 9 man be trusted as an ameliorator
IF our race, for he is a deluded sophist;
his conduct toward us has been every
hing but honorable and we will stand
~ it if the heavens fall, in deliberate
of the principles Of debate and
hut what sophists and
aypocrits care for the eternal principles
# right, rag-pickers are always walllow-
ng in the dust. He prohibited us from
ourselves from the vile as
versions and uncouth personalities, after
flowing falsifier who in his malicious
blindness essayed to engulpn us into the
enantless grave of humiliation. We
vere represented as teaching falsehoods,
J frightful charge. We were denounced,
and in every imagined way
vere destroyed. In the midst of the
Ieadly missiles whistling around Md
bout 10 We essayed to show that we
'ere too proudly and grandly fortressed
a the citadel of truth to be utterly ami
lilated, but the learned (?) apostaee of
he Courier would not hear our cry or
isten to our reply. He sanctioned a
rilful falsi6er, and denounced lover of
ruth. This disguised the fine-souled
nen Of Gallatin county, who wanted to
&c our reply and when informed of the
acts in the case, they quickly arrived at
be conclusion thyt such a procedure ls
and soon had their names
faced from the subscription roll. We
lso declined to take such paper, re-
ardins it ~ IN organ of injustice and
ypocrisy. And ever since the editor
- utilized every opportunity to let fly
. us the volleys Of ridicule and scorn.
Int such an attack is similar to dog
arking at 4 train of cars. Gossamer in
srences and cob-web sophistries have no
eight with men of reason and intelli-
ence. We cannot expect that such a +:
terary pedant and intellectual assassin I
IN understand or appreciate logic and
,mmon sense. We admit the world de- I
lands practical themes, but then they {
lnnot be found in the Courier. To look