The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1889-06-18
FORHSTERS IN 4 FRET.
Mr.. O'Mea1ia Fires Another
Arrow at Wood1ander
Sibba1d.

To the Editor of The JERSEY CitD Nelos'-
In Mr.. Sibbald's reply in your paper Oh
yesterday he starts off by quoting an ola
lawyer having once said:I"When you
have no defence, BLACKBOARD the other
fellow.u Mr.. Sibbald has followed that
maxim all through this controversy, n
his replies have not had any argument IN
favor Of the stand taken by his court, a
have been full of abuse and blackguard-
ism. and according to Mr.. Sibbald's own
quotation he has convicted himself Oh
having no case. and he started in to black
guard 'the other fellow" M. Slppaiu
Is anxious to. be treated pol ho;n.
severely polite ~ when he calls members
of another court thieves, gangs, etc.,
vet he finds fault because l have SHOWN
Jp the ~falsehoods in his other m
cations, one.of which 1T took MIN TOUR
days to write, after continuous
ton with his court in q BACK room Oh =
barber shop, and then h1red a lawyer anu
a scholar to draft for him.
In reply to my question as to whether
Court Bergen would be willing TO ADMIT
the colored man to membership, ne re,
plies by asking me If l would black6aH
Fred Douglass and B. K. Bruce II they
were proposed in my court. l Will
answer him by saying they would
be admitted INTO Court Jersey City before
some white men from Court Bergen.
When Mr.. Sibbald mentions the re-
marks made by some Forester, with a
brogue as thick as a blacksm1th's apron, .
Isuppose the man spoke as he felt, and
while / do not approve of members inter
rupting members of Court Bergen when
they are airing their eloquence, and while
the remark, no doubt, was a vulgar one,
he had as much right to call names as
had MI. Sibbald when he expressed him
self in print as he did on Saturday last,
decency to not Nvillify those whose
opinions differ from him. AS to the
Foresters' demonstration of two years
ago, of which Mr.. Sibbald speaks SO dis
paragingly, and compares it to its disad-
vantage with another organizations; Mr.;
Sibbalds says Court. Bergen participated
iii it: why did they do so? II there were
other flags than the Stars n Stripes car
ried in line why did Court Bergen particl,-
pate? Why, when they were so shocked
at the idea of walking with people of a
certain nationality, = did they not leave
the ranks? Why did Mr.. Sibbald, who
hates the mention of ''Irish" or "Catho-
iic| in Forestry, as he proves in his TRADE
of Yesterday, walk with them? 1t was to
get q share of the profits for Court Ber--
gen and for the filthy lucre Mr.. Sibbald
and Mr.. Allerdice both worked with For
esters, some of whom on account OF being
of a certain nationality" are despised, by
Mr.. Sibbald, and Mr.. Allerdice and to
mention their nationality is like shaking
q red flag at a mao bull. On account OF
the demonstration two years ago Court
Bergen received $35 as their share OF the
profits and yet they turned in only 50
for tickets sold. At the meetings
of the Amalgamated Committee last year
Court Bergen wa represented, and as the
proceeds from sale of tickets given to each
court was to be their own, Court Bergen
took their share of tickets, sold quite u
number, kept the proceeds and took no
part in the parade which took place and
In which there a0GS no flag carried but the
Stars and Stripes, showing Court Bergen
willing to parade when foreign flags are
carried in parade, but not with only the
American flag.
With Mr.. Sibbald's usual politeness ()
he starts in to tell the members of Court
Triumph, when organized, to beware of
the organizers, etc.
Mr.. Sibbald says Court Bergen is not an
English court. / did not say it was. How
ever, "You can tell the ass by the size of
his ears" is an old saying may be by Mr.:
Sibbald's t'old lawyer'') and you can tell
Court Bergen by the colors they sail under.
Mr.. Sibbald says his court could not be
hoodwinked by the spread eagleism OF
those who head the secession movement;
they might have been if the spread eagle
was on metal am satisfied the Forest
ers of Hudson county will get along with
out foreign Court Bergen, the ame as
will the New York and Brooklyn United
Districts, of which body Court Bergen
was a member. / met a Past District
Chief Ranger of the New York and Brook
1yn United District, and he said ''the
bump of coneeit was abnormally devel-
oped in the members of Court Bergen"
and 1t is their conceit and their feeling
that they are better than their sister
courts which makes them secede from
the Sub High Court of the United States.
J.. +. O'MEALIA,
P. G. r. Court Jersey City.