Nevada County picayune., 1886-07-07
FOR SHAME!

London in 1862 has cap turod Congress. the Legislative, the Executive depart ment. and made inroads upon the iudiciary.branch, has bought state legislatures and state courts
 they have bought up the press and pulpit cf tte land."-AF- kansaw Dispatch.
 For shame!
 "plc," the author of the above hlaSpcmy says that you ar" not "Yyad ap' anl ought 70 post''yonf- self"
 Bat your nlI friend, ''Clljpa- tier" wants to say 10 you this: IT .rcaling up" and ''post yourself leads t.thc writing otsuch ground Hess and absurd charges against eV- cry h9forrd hnd honorable man representing us in our government, don't you read up,' for if you do and the county court takes coShl- zauce of your tread up" condition, 1 he'll appoint your guardian sure. And besides. such 'read-up' men are totally disuualiied to edit readable newspapers. But "PIC," should such calamity ever befall you should you ever be read up' to that cxtent-don't, don't read any morc-don't become so well tread up' that you will fling garbage from the charnal house of your dead political aspirations into the sacred precincts of the altar. and assail the ministry of Goi's holy religion with charges of treachery and moral turpitnde from which il felo1 might turn disgusted away. ! Don't do that "PIC.'
 But "PIC,n shonldall these evils befall you, and you unhapPily still fret the chains of fraii mortality, struggle on to aVoil the narrcw conceptions and pitiabIe folly that i leads read up" men to charge all whose views differ from theirs, with being traitors, liars, thieves and pol,roons. Or if you do that "Pte,r be sure 10 half sole the , aether of your pautalooos with sol' . leather; for if the toe of some re- spcctaGl9 citizens boot doesn't start in quest of that part of your anatomy, it will be, not because you won't deserve it, but because you will be considered an object more to be pitied than blamed,
 "Now "Plc," ifyou are not tread app on history, you might tread np' oil that particular suhject-Jnst enough to convince yon that the Great Solon, about whose patriot ism the alleged read up" man rants. belonged to the class, which in another place he denominates thieves, traitors, latcyerS," And you will also fnl, too, that Marcus rullius Cicero. upon whom he hcaps a cheap euloGy, was also q | lawyer and advocate.
 .Aad besides, you will find that the policies which were adapted to governments and people in those eras dong before Christ or just afteT are "6OuC as applicable to governments and people of to 1 day. aS would be the ti2.lcat habill- menta of Adam (to that extent a Grcenbacker) G to the requirements and social usage of human societE { of the present.
 History will teach you to recog- nizo that kind of sophistry. You will find that revolution is not re- form, and that just such rcvoln tions as those, to which the "weii read' man points as glowing ln- stances. resulted not in permanent reform, but like levers which give the rosy flush of seeming health for an hour, leave tine victim weak CT and nearer dissolution. The in. ternal revolutions of Greece and Rome have left them what they are today, each a political s"rco- phagGS.
 And coming to more modern times you will find chapter in history called the "Frcnch Rey0- lution." YOl will investigate itS causes.
 Some phiiosophic, blasphcmous literature tloatcd throlgh Europe; the people quit working and began phil0sophizing about "hard time.;' club was organized at Paris, the Cordeliers; another ciuh, with a lit tie different creed, the Jacoblns; hungry and malicious agitatorS- friends of the peoplc' they called themsclvCs-wcre "'ernenst the government" and like thc tread up" man appealed to the passions of the propie; a reign ofterror was instituted, and those venrmOuS reptiles who professcd to be "fricnas of the people" swan through the blood of that devoted people to thr mes of drspotism.
 Dii that read mp man ever sec that bit of history, think you, "pIC?' Noi Then instead of be, ing too well real' maybe he is not sufficiently posted" Then "PIc" try to incourage him in the pursuit of wider information and tell him: "A little learning is dangerous thiug'
 As ever, fonGly yours,
 CHIPATIER.
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 Wallace ys, l'ittman,