New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1889-05-29
THE uUGWUMP LNQUISITION

The Evening Post devotes long aruc'e W -"
criticism OF the strawberry. In the course OIL ~
occasion Is taken TO find considerable tault "IVn
this fruit, hitherto supposed TO DE as nearly Pe'-
feet as any edible product OF the Vesetaole KING
dom. II appears however, that the huS"uhP'
after giving It an impartial hearing casts u run
him. He decides that. while not utterly Dau' ~
nevertheless has grave failngs lwhlch we VIII hoO
stop to enumeratcl, and we gather from Ms ie"
words that for people who like TINS sorI OIL tiins
II Is Just what they want but that IL Is lar itUI
being the food for Mugwumps. we VIII ho' '">S
snace 70 defend the strawberry, as we do not sup
pose TINT the article in question VIII cause SUI
GENTLY large number OF persons to give up their
.-o,vberries and cream 10 affect more than tempo
rarily the market, but 80 calls mp another matter
,,hicb MANY neople hive been watching with great
interest of lnte. A.,
shortly after the late Presidential election the
statement was freely made in many quarters th"'
tbere WINS nothing In the earth, or IN the heaven
above or in the water under the earth, WIN ""oi'
the MuVyump press had not found fault Inns coi"
ing 20 the notice OF gentleman living ID inns c''S
Of a scientific and statistical turn OF mlhd ne seU
about an investigation 70 see II u WAS Inc eA'o'
,rpth His researches showed That IL was ho'
After An exhaustive examination OF MES "nu oo''i
data. he conf piled the following hst OF ming
oroins, which so far as he could discover, the
Mn g,ump publications had ,uevsr bre"thed
word
The strawberry,
Tho equatorial triangle,
The planet Neptune A..
This WINS as recently as last November NOW
tho strawberry must be taken from THIS Nst' au'
there remain only the apprehenSive equator, th'
fearful couilatcral triangle and the rcmDiihB
planet Neptune. ,..
These facts arc worthy Of our serious attehuoh'
Six months ago thorc were fo"t 'h'nES
=, ,cos, in which we could feel full
confidence; now one OF these Is taken rom US,
A. this ro,r In n shor: year and halfin the fan
OF 500, 10 he cNnct-thcre will he nothing "l'
ir tho whole range of the universe which has not
49,, irnrortiolIv weighed in the Mugwump bal
opccs and condemned Nor is this the worst Tor
,is reckoning rests only on chance, and the I'M
nanny pIonc,. figure and great circle may to-mor-
,o,v-nvc todny-be dragged into court ana r.
ccivc their sentence.
7, Il also worthy Of note that even ms the case
s;onds now there Is nothing in our own country
which has no; bern dsapprOyed OF. the equator
and Neptunc Of course finding their homes lar
away. and the equintcral triangle being rs II
ycrc. indigenous 20 oil space, and even hHHlnS
hccn first reduced 70 a scmi-concrctc form by TIC
mid Of blackboard and piece OF chalk IN n
foreign land II can only he called an exotic at the
hest To This condition. then. are W" come tha'
tbcrr is not one thing in this, our country not
fallen under the ban Of the MuCSump. Better
savs everybody. had he fallen afonl Of Neptune or
tie equator, or even Of the eQnilntcraI triangle
than 20 have pitched upon tho strnwherry, our
las, National hope. But the sentences OF the Mug
r,lmrS are Of a much more firm and unyleIdlhg
character than were those paltry regulations oil
rho vacillnting Modes and PrrsIans, and we know
Inn, the Mngyump press will never. never REIN
statr the outcnst strawberry.