New-York tribune., 1884-11-02

Where IN the world did Iicechsr meet John Iarmoni
Ia tho lobby at the BARI
Words ringing my car from tho late William Cullen
Bryant:
They coming Father Grov-n-ar
nco hundred thousand more. "
Ereni"0 Post, please copy aud charge to the Better
Element.
II Cleveland becomes President the respectable hall of
Washington had better go and jump on the dock.
This seems to be a campaign between the genuine
Uncle Toms Cabin and a" snide version OF the same
with Do0dhOunds
Since Horace White has taken to printing private con-
vcrsation, does he remember conversation where he
said the American people not lit for selt- govern
ment He reasoned himself, his silly rage in
this campaign shows.
Bonamn Franklin, The most successful editor ever
Possessed and the wes the abuse Of the
American press y obscure and upstart ucors OF the
same such have in the present campaign
follows: On examination OF The Pentsyiranio Gazette
for fifty yeara from eucement, 1t appeared that
during that On period scarcely lbelOus piece had
appeared in IT, This chase conduct of your paper
il much its reputation FOR it has long been the opinion
OF sober uGicous people that nothing ia likely
endanger the liberty OF the press than the abuse of that
liberty by employing it in personal discussions deraction
and calumny. Tic newspapers have set this State in a
bad light abroad have European newspaper in
which the editor who had been charged with frequently
eliminating the Americans, justified himself 10y saving
that had published nothing dsgracefnl 10 which
he had not taken from onr own printed papers"
Franklin in l7ss from the city of Sew York:
Complaints Of hard times and want of money com
to all tines and a countries, aud were made even
in solonon's time, why, told, silver was as
.t.a yat
even then there were people that grumbed so a. to
incur this censlue from that knowing prince Say not
thou that the former times were better than these for
thou inquire right concerning this matter The
sprit of ranking malice and hatred breathes In the
Philadelphia neysl apers. ana is most inconsistent.
Each party ascribes all the public operations OF the other
TO vicious motives; they do not suspect another
Of the smallest degree honesty They claim that the
very Justices OF the peace make SilanOus trade OF their
Office and promote di-cor 10 augment fees. see such
words In them petty hddler' sycopbant' and
'scoundre' applied to the appointed Judge Of the
Admiralty; an old woman and abettOr OF sedltion to
another Of the judges. Jories to the chief justice,
and ~ harI es are the controller and naval officers
TO prey upon the merchants and deprive them OF their
property by iorce of arms The President OF your
Council aud Assembly called an old rogue who
gave his assent the Federal Constitution merely 10
avoid rordndng money he had purloned from the United
states While You give another living the character
70 me that Am.rica IL made by its newspapers good
country 20 die in though very bad one to live in
BENJAMIN Franklin in 1852 little one hundred
wears ago. wrote 10 Francis HOpklnson' the author OF
Hail Columbia" from Paris: "You do well to avoid
being concerned In the pieces OF personal abuse so
scandaously common newspapers that am afraid
10 lend any of them until haze examined and laid
aside such a. would disgrace and subject US among
strangers reflection like that usedsby gentleman IN
a coffee house to quarrclers who' aiter mutually
FREQ use Of the words rogue, 'vllanl, rascal,
eNnder, ETC. seemed II they would refer their dis
pute to him. Il know nothing Of you or your affairs,
said he: Il only perceive that you know another.
The conductor ~ q newspaper" continues Franklin,
" should methnke, consider himself as IN some degree
the guardian Of hs countrys reputation and refuse TO
insert such writings may hurt It, If people VIII
print their abuses another let them do u In tto
pamphets and discharge them whore they think proper
U il absurd trouble all the world with them ana UNJUST
to subscribers in distant places to stun their paper with
matters so Improbable and go dsagrceaele'
The two great scamps a hundred years ago, IN the
newspaper press of this country the PecAsnin etos OF
that day, we're Thomas Paine and James Thompson
CALENDER Calender published The Richmond Na)
R,eorder and abused General Washington. President
Adams and finally Jefferson who had set him mp In bus-
moss IIc got drunk aud drowned in the James
River bathing IN 1903. Paino survived Caendersi SIX
years and died drunk and dirty in this city, where the
editor OF The Freni,g Post wrote bis e Calender ac
cused Washington OF drawing his salary before IL was
aue white Pre- sidcnt aud thereby being swindlsr who
robbed his Government Of and broke the laws
Paine accused Washington OF cowar'lice sclhshne's'
etc ~ the following extracts Will show
H. 1896 the last year 0f Washington Presidency fsho
addressed him letter saying: "Monopoles OF every
kind mark your administration almost III 'no
momont OF ite beginning. The lands obtained by the
Revolution lavished upon parsans Ihe interest,"
Of the disbauded soldier sold to the spccuiaor III
,usco WAS assisted under the pretence of faith and the
chief OF the army became the patron OF the rrand fh
and vice have found protection In you ana the ievee
room s their place OF rendezvous. You slept away your
time n tho field TIL the finances or the country were
completely exhausted. You commenced your fresi-
dental career by encouraging ana swa'oMi"s '"o
grossest aduaton; and you travelled hmerlc" io ono
end to the other put yourself In the way Vi Receiving
H. Yon have many addresses In your ches' "S '"os
the Second Washington can serve or desert man o'
cause with Constitutional indifference Errors or
caprices Of temper can be- pard and forgotten nut
cold deliberate crime OF the heart. such as MI WISH
ington s capable OF acting. Is not 10 be washee away
Tha seems to be the reproduction OF yesterday %'er
Dons Sneak aud Sneer.
The above extracts show how the useetsh tue press
OF to-day had their perfect counerPfts III 'no u''
honored writers OF hundred years ago Ihomas '"o
continues to address General Washington; iho 'H''
acter which Mr. Washington has attempted TO ACT III INC
world Is sort OF non-describabie chameleon eoioro"
thing called prudence II Is In many cases substitute
for urncpe and IL so nearly aed to hypocrisy that IL
easly slides into it. Mr. Washington Will learn tbat ~ 10
bottor for man 10 pass through the world with thou
sand open eors upon bis back than ia being detected ia