The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1885-01-10
TIE SLANDERER.

In the catalogue of vice there can be !!
none more runous to the social common |
wealth than SANDER in its various forms. |
The original plan of the universe was not |
to have any slanderers born, and if they |
were accidentally created the statutes of
the higher courts all read that they
should be put to death as soon as discov
cred The church in its immensity
should not sanction any plan which
would in the slightest degree have ten
dency to lengthen their lives or add to
their happiness. The moralist theoretic-
ally heaps curses upon his head and all
good people proclaim eternal and unre-
lenting hatred for his associates and his
nbettors. A child in its infancy and in
uocency can be reproved and forgiven for
the greatest wrong. Murderers expiate
their wickedness by sudden absence and
everlasting disgrace of memory and FAM
lily.
Thieves that break in and rob one of
his gold and treasure and end by arson,
find at the hands of their fellowmen
day of reckoning.
But the slanderer, the social leper,
this lecherous parasite that creeps up
from the mire and filth and spits his
slime upon the fair name of an innocent
girl, this willy serpent, that laughs at her
downfall and makes mockery of honor
still goes unpunished.
What a lack in reason he imputes
Creates the circumstances of his story
for purpose, and to gain his purpose
and subserve his schemes, he willfully
and maliciously lies. Being detected,
like the willy serpent he carefully and
cautiously coils around his victim and
under the cover of hypocrisy and dis
stimulation breathes poison into the life
of her, who, were he a man, he would
honor and adore.
He is moral mistake; worse thar
that man who being too wicked to swear
cursed God and died. See him as he
sneaks along the street and avoids those
whose characters he has questioned, anc
trembles lest he should meet the man hi
has injured. With brazen bravado h,
boastingly requests public discussion o
his veracity on subject he should blusl
to speak of.
He is known to his associates as an un
mitigated LARA man without the rudi
ments of conscience or principle 0
honor.
He may weigh coin for government
attempt to gain the confidence of lande
and intelligent community, or to Great
for himself and his progeny compctenc
in mercantile pursuits; but he does no
remain long in one place. His success
like the adept in legerdemain, depend
upon his deceit. He has no laudable an
bition. He spends his life in improvi
ing petty schemes among those whom
by virtue of his relations, he is brougf
in contact with.
The years pass by and age adds to h
adroitness, and when at last his missio
Is ended and he has returned to dust, h
acquaintances look into each others ey,
heave sigh of relief, and each one fee
the force of the others thinking, thoue
not word of slander breaks the sugges
i've silence of the occasion; uppermost
their minds they read his history in h
epitaph.
Created-lived-an had an ambitit
to be moral mistake, low, small mi
--succeeded--di without pain or CO
science.
Aged about thirty-two, he leaves
wife, but no one to mourn his departur
He was noticed by few, and the world
better that he is out of it Elk.
wise Quakeress used to say the