Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1889-02-15
MONOPOLIEs,

| euU5Ctloers ul one newspaper IS retuSeu
to the editor Of another would IL be an
illegal net TO some how others get n
copy of said li-l2 Provided no injury
is done to the list itself of which copy
Inns been secured? Suppose q paper is
publishing falsehood that Is iniurirg
the community or any ono of its MEM
bers. would IL not be legal aud right and
praiseworlhy to secure n copy Of such n
list in order TO prevent the evils arising
from the publication Of fnlschoods ?
AN ENQUIRER.
If we would accept the contracted
views OF the writer as the Supreme
Judge" in such matters and those he
represents in this county, and State for
that matter, then we would accept his
questions ns legitimate and answer them
accordingly. But we have more un-
biasscd and better qualified Republican,
Democratic, Legal and Christian au-
thOrity IT, refer to.
Not in all the dozen papers of Wood
county except the JouRNAL-which
gives all the news, and we will not ex-
| ccpt the Toledo Blade, tho "Pulverizer
OF the Rum Powei"-has the writer
been able to learn that the subscription
list of The Voice, of New York, the
National Temperance organ, was stolen
in the late campaign by two of the en-
poycs on the mailing list of that paper
and sold to Quay, Claikson and Dudley,
Chairman, Vice Chairman aud Treas
urcr of the National Republican Com
mittec, for $3.50, and that the same
parties paid 5000 for the mailing list
of tho knights of Labor organ.
"Where IGNORANCE is BLISS, it is folly
to be wise," and "whcn man is robbed
and knows not what.he is robbed of, is
not robbed at all, says Shakespeare
Therefore we take it that our EN-
quirer," in search OF useful knowledge,
gained his first information through the
columns of the JOURNAL that suoh
dcpredations were really committed by
the head and front of great political
party upon the freedom of the Press
a party whose only principles gave it
notorioty and power was Free Speech,
Free Press and Free Territory for Free
White Men"
Let us give you some good Republican
and Christian authority as addressed to
The Voice upon the subject of its stolen
list
Arthur I. Plerson, ID. d. Republican
aud pastor of the church of which
John Wanamaker is a me mberl, writes:
1.-The theft of your mailing. list, and
its purchase by the Republican National
Committee, must be abhorrent to every
honest mind and II party which shall
tolerate such transactions is corrupt be-
yond recovery"
Julius ii. Seelyc, LII. D., President of
Amherst College, writes:
"Without any regard to party affilIla-
tions the crime OF stealing mailing
list and using the mails 70 convey mis-
leading political documents, must be
simply dtrociouS."
Joseph Cook writes from Boston:
1.-The bribery and larceny you have
exposed arouse keen Indignation in Bos-
ton among all the honorable men l
meet. {. Anything is fair in
politics is proverb that will lead, with
incredible velocity, any party or nation
that is loyal to it into the jaws of polit-
ical perdltion."
Prof. w. &. Sumner of Yale Cole ge
writes
The cynIcism of the politicians ard
the apathy of the public conscience are
two powerful foes. Ii we do not over
come them they will overcome us.
also look forward with dread to every
Presidential election, believing it to he
only a question OF time when we shall
have another disputed election with
consequences which no one can forsee.',
The Independent, as strongly Repub-
ican ns its religion will admit in this
age, says:
although the men who mako these
aflldavits are self-confessed scuundrels,
they give much circumstantal accounts
of the alleged transaction that simple
denial from tile officials implicated will
not meet the case. The stealing of n
mailing-list is the meanest sort OF sneak
thieving, and tile man who would buy
such stolen goods knowingly is as mean
us the thief and as greata criminal"
Evrrt p. Wheeler, recognized as one
Of the pur ,st, ablest and best known
lawyers in New York, and Chairman of
the New York City Civil Service Com
mission, says:
at seems TO me that the crime of re-
ceiving stolen goods, knowing them to
be stolen, is made out by The statements
in your issue of the 10th instant. +.
We can never hope for an honest elec.
ton until il is made manifest by pub
lie example, that the law does not rec
ognize the maxim that all is fair in pol.
itlcs.' AS long rs reputable persons can
be found to conduct political cam
paigns, who will not hesitate TO violate
the law in the expectation that they will
escape punishment by reason of the gen.
eral indifference of the community TO
such violations, we can never hope to
obtain an honest eleclion.n
The New York Mail and Express, rad
ical Republican, when it could no long
or doubt the theft and purchase of the
stolen goods, is forced in justice to say
''Justice requires the statement, that
facts which have since come TO our
knowledge including tho conduct Of the
individuals implicated and the flippant
comments OF some party papers, make
IL appear probable thar the stolen list
Was purchased by rome one for the Re-
publican National Committee aud the
welfare of the party and OF the country
calls for IN unqualified condemnation of
D tnat act by every man who believes i'll
honesty. Proc: is also accommodating
that that was not the only deed done, or
arranged for, in the National Commi:- =
tee that cannot be defended, except up
o ! ssumptions that would make the
perm nrncy OF Republican institutions
Impossible. We do not care to con =
Incmt upon tins subject NJ any length at
this time, but submit to all honorable
Republicans that it is not right, and the
Interest of the party will not be ad-
vanced by Ignoring the wrong acts OF
| those whose pusiliun makes The nlam-