The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1884-02-06

iudicting every grog shop keeper sworn
against And what sort of a man is tho
Captain for charging with perjury and at
. tempting to injure the character Of the
men who have only told what be tells us
himself he believes.
But ON the other hand if the spree is so
improbable that nobody believes it, then
what in the name Of honesty and sense
did the Captain assert itfor? Why does
he make himself guilty of bringing false
charge in regard to it? Did anybody in
all their lives ever see any one more COM
pletely caught in fooltrap of his own
Invention and setting 1t doesn't make
one bit of difference to me which horn of
this dilemma the Captain hangs himself
on. He couldn't tie prettier knot
around his jugular with a rope than he
has done in three lines with his pen.
once read an anecdote of young man
who went home to his mother in terri
BILE rage, and upon being asked what was
the matter, replied that esquire Jones
had called him liar, right in public. F"
The mother flushed in defense of her son
and indignantly exclaimed, sid make him
prore it ~ Hang it. ALL, roared the
angry young man, "why that's just what
makes me SO internal mad. Confonnd
his onery picter, he did prone il =
Now don't misunderstood me.
wouldn't be so discourteous as Squire
Jones was, not on any account. To say
nothing of wholesome respect for a
clenched fist, my disposition would have
only permitted me to remark to thai
young man that he eUltioated great mis-
takes, very successfully. OF the Captain,
say nothing. only give his own words
and each reader may construe for himself,
But "kaow hyseG" was the adage of the
wise man, and it is to be presumed The
Captain does. And who ever before saw
writer do himself this singular sort Of
justice by 'confounding' his own ';ornery
picter,s in procing himself to be in such q
tight place. "
In sending you this, Mr.. Editor, it is
not my intention merely to try the point
of tho lancet on the veal of your Mt. Airy
writer. | have an object beyond that.
He seems to be the exponent of the wills.
key sgang, and it seems important that
tho public should see how insineere, how
mean, shifting, preyaricating and con-
Trajectory their whole position is in re.
gard to the liquor cases that have taken
place. firmly believe that not one OF
them can talk ten minutes about these
cases, without giving himself completely
away and betraying a perfect conscious
ness, that the evidence of those detectives
was truthful aud sincere and one of the
greatest wrongs ever comm tilted In Hun
terdon, was when it was rejected. The
fact that they were paid for their time
the same as everybody else employed in
any service, gives no one any right to re-
ject their testimony. The evidence of de-
tectives is taken almost daily in the cities
The United States Government itself has
detectives constantly in its employ, en-
gagged in hunting out counterfeiters. mail
robbers, dishonest clerks and Other
criminals and what court would
think of rejecting their testimony be-
cause they were hired, as the whiskey
gang puts it. 1t is a very paltry and dis
honest subterfuge, and nobody knows it
better than they. Yours.