Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1884-08-20

party organ exists and the volume of
nast' ness increases rather than dimin.
ishts daily. Already we have prom
ises from headquarters that still other
and more terrible charges are in
preparation and that they will be
made pub ic from time TO time during
the summer and fall. 1t would be
doing the other party too much honor
to suppose that it would not resort to
the same tactics. The work of retail
alton is already in progress. For every
Republican Roland there will be a
Democratic Oliver. Party organs al
ready rendered foul and unfit for
general circulation by their indecent
publications, filthy puns, md jokes, and
obscene wltticisms, will become the
sewers through which the vicious will
wallow and in which the young will
be contaminated. Politics and
craftsmanship, once the study of
intelligent people, will, under this new
dlspensation, be degraded to the level
of the brothel and become the sport of
the strumpet. Instead of argument
there will be salacious stories. In the
place of calm and decent discussion to
which ladies and children have in the
past been invited1we shall have out
ragaous calumnies, broad obscenity
and animated controversies on the so.
cial evil. Even the babes cannot be
kept in ignorance of this immoral cy-
clone which has already penetrated
with its fetid breath the home and the
churches.
The assault made upon Mr.. Cleve-
lard Is villainous and contemplate
beyond the power of words fifty to
describe. The onslaught on Mr.. Blaine
is even more dastardly, for which the
assertion that his friends began that
style of warfare will furnish no reason
able defense. 1t Is too nauseating for
perusal. With no reprisal the orig.
inal Islander woul long before election
have become the most powerful weapon
in Cleveland's armory, destroy ing
those who placed il there and
bringing to his side thousands
OF decent men who would
discounienance In any party the resort
to such Infamous methods OF ampaign-
ing. Repli, d to in kind, "a it now h .s
been, it Is probable that nothing can
prevent moral pestilence sweeping
the land from ocean to oc san. In this
wreiched event no one need expect
that the tongue of Islander " i'll stop ut
truth or partial truth. Every device
known to foul and uncleau minds will
be resorted to, and the character of no
man or woman occupying positions of
prominence Will be safe.
A tremendous popular revulsion
against this monstrous wrong at this
time might perhaps deter Jealous and
unscrupulous partisans from continu-
Ing II, but nothing less than sweep
Ing and emphatic denunciation of the
evil can prevent its spreading over the
land like plague. The independent
press Is powerful, but it cannot stem
this tide Of jniquity unaided. Party
organs on both sides should be made
to feel the weight of popular displeasure
IN the only place where their con-
sciences can be reached-their cash.
boxes. The man who takes one of
them into hi. family will SOW the
seeds Of moral disease, aud the one
who reads them himself will insult his
own manhood and intelligence
On the threshold of what promises
to be the foulest aud r0ttenest politi.
cal campaign In American history,
the Herald protests against the poIIu.
ton that impends. From that ioath-
some contest II will not be Grover
Cleveland or James G. Blaine who
VIII emerge stained, bedraggled and
shame faced. 1t Will be the American
people, We can b, one such conflict
plant the leeds Of immortality ia this
country so deep that century of peni-
tence will not suffice to uproot them.
We can make Ourselves the scorp of
the world. We can disgrace the
American name aud character for
ever.
In no spirit Of hostility to things re-.
iigious, but with profound reverence
Tor true Christian character-with
hatred OF shams and OF ny pocrites. and
deep seated contempt OF bigotry and
narrow partisanship-the Herald can
not refrain from again directing atten-
ZION TO the fact that this irreligious.
wicked and scoundrelly torrent OF
Islander and corruption sprines from
the puipits Of Bufi.Lo. Where IL will
emu no man can now foretell,
It's effects are certain In he
most far-reaching and disas-
trous, causing more mischief than ali
the sermons that can be preached in a
generation can counterfeit. IT may
not be too late TO stem the tide. PEG.
pie have shown themselves wiser and
better than their teachers before this.
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