The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1888-03-01
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clear up to the sun-god whom it dubs
| "Appolo.1 Think of climbing to the en-
pyrean regions of Mt. Caucasus to drag
Apollo into a local controversy, and then
making the beautiful god almost an or
chard product. The Pilot is given sex;
yea, verify it is placed in the category of
male bipeds and classed as.he." He
The Pllot,-has had his collors (sic) drag
ged in the dust" Here is a seeming ref
erence to domestic concerns. 1t posi-
| bly, may have reference to standard, but
| the soiled condition of the '.collors" has
suggestion of laundry-work and it must
be he The Pilot has had portion of
his wearing apparel stained.
The startling information that "a luna
TIC Imagines he is a king" is thrust upon
the public so abruptly as to be trying TO
people of weak nerves. And without Civ
ing sufficient time for complete recovery
from the amazement such an announce
ment Is calculated to produce, a second
chunk of solid information is hurtled
forth, regardless. This is to the effect
that he,-the lunatic this time.-"looks
upon all that come In contact with con-
tempt" 1t will be observed that the
lunatlc is rather exclusive as to whom he
looks upon. just why he should not
permit his gaze to rest upon those who
did not come IN contact with contempt"
the readers OF The Times are allowed to
remain In blissful ignorance. It is not
too much to assume that the general ver-
diet will be that he is very peculiar
lunatic.
But little glimmer of light is thrown
upon the matter by the succeeding SEN
| tence, which is, The little Pilot is in
very near the same condition mentally
and physically" Those skilled in liter
airy composition, know that interest in
| the work of an author can be materially
assisted by leaving portion of the mean
| ing somewhat obscure, so as to awake
imagination and arouse conjecture. This
| little touch of literary coquetry The
| Times article succeeds most admirably in
| attaining. The defect of vision which
| prevents the lunatic from looking upon
| those who have not come in contact with
contempt, is evidently physical, probably
that obhquity of vision vulgarly known
as a squirt. SO now we have the lunatic
| squint-eyed. Then the squint-eyed luna
| tic and the little Pilot get mixed up in
the subsequent proceedings. Both are
impartially referred to as she" There is
a fight of some kind in which The Pilot
| or the lunatic takes part. Some one
| bowls @enough" with big exclamation
point after it. In the hurly-burly we are
assured that neither Parnell nor OBrien
are there, not even "Redmund," but
| little Pilot. Somehow the lunatic has
escaped and people are left In ignorance
of his fate. Then, when the row is over
"Appolo' is called in. But he seems to
he envious of something. He is intro
| duced by the singular statement that the
mental condition is no better, physically
| he is the picture of health The quoted
| part bears internal evidence OF having
been intended for the lunatic, but some
how it has been lugged off by "Appolo'
and the poor lunatic is robbed of a part
Of the description justly his due.
Through some occult form of develop
ment "Appolo" becomes an Irishman, or
at least he becomes possessed of the idea
that his nationality has beenz insulted.
| ! To, 70, &c,
taken severely to task by The Times for
acting $50 awful queer" He raves and
''stumbles onto truth" which The Times
| declares means that the Germans have
the numbers and the Irish the brains of
the county. This is the explanation of
the truth" by The Times, which 'Appo-
| 10" stumbled onto" And then The
| Times calls its own statement bigotry
and disimIsses "Appolo" sans ceremony.
Heigho! wearisome Flooding this,
through the inane expressions of man
who will write before he understands En-
! glish, and who not content to faunt his
illiteracy in the eyes of tie public, adyer-
tises his inability to understand what he
reads by putting an Interpretation uponit
which it will not bear.
There is no disposition to be unjust to
the publisher of The Times. The Pilot
desires to extend that courtesy to him
which it does to all it's contemporaries.
When he coarsely assailed the Irish with
greed for Office, the oifense was offered
gratuitously. No Irishman had offered
him insult, and the gross exaggeration of
his charge indicated premeditated malice.
It was hoped some prompting OF gentle
manly instinct would suggest the pro-
priety of his retracting his statement
without outward pressure. But instead
of doing this he persisted in his course of
petty hostility by publishing the names
of every officer in the county who is Irish
by birth or parentage. And subsequent
| ly made other illusions designed r. be
offensive.
Silence under such provocation was
certainly not to be expected, and the only
cause for regret is that it was maintained
so long. The Pilot wants no argument
with The Times on any public questions
for reasons which may not be apparent to
1t but which others can fully appreci-
ate. In the present instance it regrets it
cannot treat him with the ordinary civil
ties of newspaper controversy; but the
| character of the subject and his treatment
OF 1t, will not permit.
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