Waterbury evening Democrat., 1888-01-16

Let bears and lions growl and fight
 For tis their nature to.
 But children you should never let
 Your angry passions rise
 Your little hands were never made
 To tear each others eyes.
 Indifferent poetry you will say; but it is impressive in it's philosophy. Every one carries with him through life a memory of this-one of childhoods earliest lessons, worthy of the moral simplicity of Dr Watts; but how few they are who in ma ture years reduce the teachings to practice. Hatred, malice and all uncharitableness are prevalent conditions where personal or professional interests are in conflict, and men seem to have left the maxims of boy hood at the threshold of the nursery. We could bear all this with indifference, as long as the evil doings or sayings of con- testants did not exercise an influence for scandal beyond their immediate sphere; but when the assumed or accepted guar dians of public morals-our prophets in political principles-the opponents of our thoughts and the guides of our actions, descend from their high estate and sink to the slang of the slums, it is time ill the protection of personal decency and the honor of party, to utter word of protest; and it is thus that we, the youngest born of the Democratic household of journal ism, venture @ word of warning and re- monstrance to our older and bigger broth CTS of New York From our little, and perhaps unconsidered, nook in the valley of the Naugatuck, we send fraternal greet ings to our Democratic journals of the Empire City, and implore of them in the interests of our common party, if not ill consideration of their own self respect, to halt in their pursuit and practice of vii tuperation one of the other.
 There are three prominent offenders in this unworthy warfare; and if we were to accept credibly what one writes and pro- claims of the other-the delinquencies and the double ble-dealings-the immoralities and impecuniosities - the faithlessness to friends and the perfdy to political profes- sions-we should not only renounce thei1 representative direction of Democratic af fairs, but pronounce each and every party to this triangular duel as more fitted for Sing Sing than for the solemn trust of the editorial sanctum. We do not believe in the truthfulness of the accusations; the writers cannot have faith in their own fic- tions. One, according to his antagonists statement, is foreign adventurer-a ref ugee from his own land beyond the sea- full of "treason, stratagems and spells" and so forth. We'll, we are all foreigners. more or less in descent or in actuality; we are adventurers in our struggle for exist ence, though it may not have been given to some of us to have adventure crowned with the success which is the attendant on merit and the accompaniment of worth; and in how few instances does it happen that good fortune is generously shared in active charities or in promotion of noble deeds? The successful newspaper man who en- dows an hospital apartment for his afflicted brothers of the press; who has his hands in his pocket for everything appertaining to the aid of his order; who performs private charities unostentatiously, and contributes largely to public patriotic objects cannot be the mean and mercenary ''adventurer'' of his antagonists limning. And such a man is Joseph Pulitzer of the New York World. Then there is one who, as a gen. tleman in private life, is esteemed for all the qualities which the title implies-a scholar with the scholars grasp on genius 8 publicist with rare training and expert sy1 %I,a oI. ,1o1 n1>o,., l. friendly--with true American instincts, and sympathies wide enough to embrace the cause of suffering nationalities far away and a man of this class and calibre is not the man to deserve the reproaches, implied and expressed, showered upon Charles A. Dana. There is the third on the list of combatants i'll this journalistic prize ring whose merits man and claims as politician have been attested by the people of his State in his selection for one of the highest gifts in their disposal A few years cannot have made such change in his life and characteristics as to bring him down to the level ill which the other parties to this little faction fight would place him, and whatever be the success or the opposite, of the excellent paper under his control-and we write of it with appre- ciative and affectionate memory-the name of ex-Lieut. Governor William Dorshei- mer stands beyond the efforts of male volent abuse with his fellow citizens
 Why then will great men and great minds become forgetful of the solemn trust imposed in them by their editorial position; and forfeit, by the indulgence of petty personal spleen, their public influence and usefulness. Some old country philosopher Lord Broughanl, we believe-described newspaper as ''t the best possible public instructor" instruction in bilingsgate is not desirable branch of education for the boys who are to be the future citizens of this great land; and the idea of gentle men and scholars posing day after day in the old pot-and-kettle attitude of vigorous vituperation is not very reassuring to the party whose interests each and all of the