The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-06-21
HARPER'S WEEKLY.
Character of the Vaunted journal of CiviIiz-
alton.


alton.
Chicago Current.
Harper's Weeklyis by the grace of its owners
dictum. a journal of civilization.
God save the mark
1t has grown formidable on the acquisitions of
piracy. tbs controlled by a combination of Cap
tain Kids, Turveydrops, Know -nothings and
Pharisees. Its torch not only Eliminates, but de
stroys. 1t is at once buccanee and bgot 1t is
a Yankee peddler, with wares to sell IL brigand
with a ransom to claim, smooth tongued mis-
sionary with an olive branch in one hand and a
stiletto in the other. Vocferously crying its
civilizing errand, it despoils, hounds, menaces
and attempts to crush all who decline to be
measured for the cloth it cuts. 1t processes the
true American tone and spirit, and yet for years
it has ridiculed, threatened and DETAINED those
of the Irish people who, having in
good faith accepted tSesa the invitation
in the upbuilding of the republic, have come
with AK and spade, with strong arms to hold a
plow with broad shoulders to bear musket,
and who have refused to sit down in idleness,
but have been content with any opportunity for
honest work, however hard or humble They
came to work. but have not been slow to fight,
and on the field of battle. asking only sabre.
room, they have given to the country of their
adoption the clenched hands of q Logan, a
Kearney and a Sheridan. For this Harper's
Weekly has made them for years the subject of
the most malicious caricature. And yet it bears
the Legend "a Journal of Civiization!n 1t is not
to be wondered at, therefore, that Republicans
do not regret its bolt Its alliance encourages
the foe. Some lanes are long in turning, but the
turn is inevitable. Retributive Justice is some
times delayed, but it comes surely, and Harper's
Weekly is ON the eve of learning this great les
son. As a journal, it has had literary
and artistic merit to commend it, but
from the beginning it has been trimmer
in opinion. Upon its friends it has never
been slow to turn for the sake of profit. 1t viii
fed the South when time for utilization had
passed and the time for help had come. 1t for
sakes the party that supported it on the very
eve of battle; upon the cant pretext of devotion
to higher ideal, but in the hope that its bust
ness may be bettered by temporary desertion
for the sake of insincere principles. The con
Germ of which it is the voice has grown fat on
the brains of authors who have starved under its
piratical policy, and yet it processes itself the
authors friend 1t is therefore high time that
this mouthpiece of shifty, thrifty, soulless
tribe should be brought to bar 1t has invited
censure by its abuse of privileges scorn by its
assaults upon the poor and humble, denunciation
by its deliberate Justification of party and pa
triotic opinion and will deserve the withdrawal
of that support its false pretenses have hereto
fore won. Having set itself up deliberately as
the apostle of its own abominable conceits, with
it's record by which it may be judged, all honest
men, of whatever party or creed, will welcome
the collapse of this organ of selfish and mer-
cenary impulses-impulses which have so long
acted through channels of hypocritic pretension.