Wichita eagle., 1889-10-03
A BRAYER FROM BOSTON.

The Rev. George Fl. Vibbert, of Boston, was then
introduced by the president and spoke Of the edi-
torials in Yesterdays EAGLE. lie said:
81 wish to say that the editorial Homage to
Women is weakly and bad enongh. but for unfair
aud of woman suffragsts the first column of the
editorial page Of the Whicita EAGLE this morning
wears it is disgrace to decent journalism and a
disgrace this city if its people tolerate, unrebu1ed
such editorial baseness
From the above crow the hen conven-
ton have evidently brought along a roos-
ter in their train. The crow, however,
sounds wonderfully like a cackle. This
particular chanticleer halls from Boston.
We nevr heard OF him, or from him, before,
but majority Of our readers, doubtless,
from repute, know something Of the
aesthetic preserve Of beans and brown
bread where he is won't to head his flock.
As he undertakes to advise this less ia
vored people touching his estimate of the
EAGLE and as to their plain duty in the
premises, it might not be amiss to OBJ
serve that SUCH as he didn't build Wich
tia, nor could such as he sustain its
present status. Leeches, especially of
the variety that clings to woman's skirts
do NOS found cities nor project enter
prises. A hundred thousand of him would
not make a village, for failing in wheedling
the women into supporting them they
would starve to death His mission here
seems to be 10 play the part of the he
poll-parrot by demonstrating that sex
cuts no figure in life's mission. We
guess it don't in his. 1t didn't in the
case of the parrot and owl. If the globe
held only men Of his make the race
would retrograde into bi-sexualitv and
disappear Of inanition. Sustained by
having the hat passed around, entrench-
ed by corsets, from a redoubt of petit
coats the cock-a-doodle-do Of this stray
bantam, whose craw is ever kept COM
fortably filled by the industrious scratch
ings Of others, seems to have the full
compass and sonorosity of shanghai's
bombilation. But the commensuration
lose their inclination to crow. May
be they do III some localities,
but when trigged out in pantalettes and
hailing from Boston and surrounded by
growing hens, it is no doubt different.
Besides not every such bird is afforded
the opportunity of Growing at an EAGLE.
We are not advised how this male cut-a-
cut, this cock who went off at half-cock,
and all so suddenly, ever got so far away
from home The chances are that he
didn't come all alone and that he didn't
pay his own fare in full or in part. His
environments wouldn't indicate that his
entities were of the self-supporting spe-
cies, while his manners are unmiStaka
bly, those of the most ordinary dunghill
fowl.
Seriously, 'we do not remember of
having for twenty years seen" such a
ponderous pair of ears as this Boston
brayer exhibits. True, there are
fewer asses to the acre roaming
these uncultivated prairies, and they
are not so notorious as those of the Bos
ton herd. Yet his bray does not sound
SO unutterably strange, either, while his
ears cast shadow like that of a great
rock in a weary land: still, is he totally
wanting in that prerequisite to the Bos-
ton ass, notoriety. However, he is gain
ing in that direction. By the aid Of the
EAGLES wings he sailed, not only into
the homes of this city of forty thousand
people yesterday ,-bray, ears and H.
but into the representative homes of over
one hundred other towns and cities of
southwest Kansas and the Indian terri |
tory, as true, pure and refined homes as |
can be found anywhere, outside of Bos |
ton, attracting the attention of hun |
dred thousand people who read this dis
grace to decent journalism" daily and |
who have tolerated it for years, not |
only, but awarded 1t their genuine con
tidence and hearty support.
1t is not often that the EAGLE devotes |
a half column to a single unknown no.
body, but when such an excuse for |
man, mere ''it," whose brooches seem |
his principal warrant if not his sole |
credentiai TO the male franchise, who, |
10y and with the consent |
of a state organization of |
women-of whom as granny he is an |
acknowledged peer-of an organization
the sole sorrow of whose members is |
that they are women-when this descrip- |
ton of a bowling waste deliberately |
commits to paper and publicly reads an
Insult to nine out Of every ten people of |
all the enlightened and refined homes |
into which this paper is welcomed, and |
nine out of ten OF the sensitive and right |
women of which homes, are |
heart and soul with Us, touching all this |
suffrage clap-trap business, we
could do no less than give truthful de-
lineation of the iDsultor, which no doubt |
viii be annreciated most by those who |