Los Angeles daily herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1884-1890, 1889-06-11
TUESDAY, JUNE II, 1859.
The Herald Objects.

The Herald objects.
THE HERALD regrets to note amongst
its local contemporaries the growth OF
captious and envious spirit. For reasons
best known to themselves Col. Arthur
Kearney, OF the San Bernardino Courier,
and the puissant Col. II. G. Otis, OF the
Los Angeles Times, have chosen to con-
stitute themselves mutual admiration
society; and, having created this compll-
Mentioning bund, they proceed to in
dulge in ecstacies of courteous cozening,
a process which is congenial to the nat
urally frank and superheatei soul OF Col.
Kearney, and a moderate indulgence in
which, on the part OF Col. Otis. is some
thing like the abandon with which q
recognized prude might be expected to
throw her soul into an occasional affair
of gallantry. There is nothing, in such
a development to call for any special
comment, and certainly nothing to
justify the captious sneers OF
the Tribune. Nature has go ordered
the many estimable attributes which
enter into the composition of Col.
Kearney that, when he praises any one,
the utmost possible climacteric of the
endowments of art and nature seem to
center in that being. If the individual
praised is q one-horse country lawyer, he
is made to feel Immediately that Lord
Mansfield was sort Of Flooding clown,
and Erskine q second-rate forensic
pleader, in the comparison. This really
does no harm. 1t leaves Mansfield and
Erskine just where they were; while it
titillates the country lawyer to the point
of positive intoxication. Col. Kearney's
praise reaches the point of glamour. If,
instead Of the subject of his versatile pen
being a lawyer, he should happen to be
q soldier, then Achilles, Julius Caesar,
Alexander the Great and Napoleon Bona
parte are the only parallels that the gener-
GUS and appreciative soul Of the genial San
Bernsrdino editor will admit of as ger
name to the occasion. He doubtless
does this on the principle of great
London actor of two generations ago,
who was caught giving guinea to
beggar. He excused himself, as would
doubtless Col. Kearney, by the remark,
81 seldom do these things; but, when l
do, do them handsomely" The effu-
sive and generous spirit Of Col. Kearney,
when it essays the role of "tsffy," does
not propose to be niggardly while liter.
airy glucose is so cheap in the market.
As to the doughty Los Angeles champ
ion, Col. Otis, why should the Tribune
snarl and whine at the recognition OF
merit in contemporary? 1t would
look as if the journal which, soma time
ago, took "a step forward" by ensmall-
ing, and afterwards took a step
backward by enlarging into the
realms OF barnyard expenses Of
unlimited advertisements for nothing,
really regretted the unbending into amia-
bility of the great Bosnerges Of slang and
personalities. For our part, We welcome
all the evidences We can get of the
advance of that spirit in the profession
which was once crystalized in the aphor-
ism, "When gentlemen meet, compli.
msnts pass"
Our regret is also intensified by the fact
that the Times, itself, is guilty of sneering
at the evidences of appreciation of the
country press at the exceptional merit
of the Tribune. After the Tribune has
Tor weeks signalized itself by declaring
that the Snake Run Bazoo is the most
vigorous and tremendous journal in ex-
ietence, and then in private note asks
the Bazoo to blazon the fact that,
for the ninety.ffth time, the Tribune
had paid off portion of its debts, land
had got itself, for the time being, out of
the hands of the Sheriff, thus again sig
nally triumphing over q league of all it's
morning contemporaries to crush it out
of existence, would not the Baxoo man
be either more or less than human il he
failed to say that the Tribune was the
most resplendent exemplar of journalism
in the world, not even excepting the
Skunk Hollow Skyscrapera 1t seems to
ms that the Times, in Directing to the re-
production in the columns of the Tribune
of these touching and spontaneous trib-
ntes, shows great littleness Of spirit.
Why not live and let live? Why aim
10 repress these artless and pleasing man
ifestations of the factthat, in the present,
as in the past. the spirit of "You tickle
me and I'll tickle you," sways the news
paper world, as it does all branches of
he human racer Shall the benign dis
pensation of "taffy" perish from off the