Fairhaven herald. [volume] (Fairhaven, Wash.) 1890-????, 1890-05-25
the CRITICS OF INGALLS,

making charges that senator ingalls,. Ia
one OF his late papers, has plagarized
ideas of an eighteenth century orator
The Kansas City times has ever since IT,,
birth endeaNored 10 hc she peculiar rep
reseniatiye Of Missouri chiyalry first aud
all other southern chivalry second. and il
could never see any good in any man no
was not of that liz. l:ui A. successful a.
the Times has heeu there has never been
man. except poor John Edwards. nov
dead and gone. ami who was not regarded
a. great by the dudes OF the Times. who
ever wrote line for that paper who
could approach senator ingalls, in any
literary particular beyond aluminou>-
ness. There has never been time since
the Kansas City Times was started that
John J. Ingalls, could not simply hari-
Kari with his pen the best man the Times
ever had. lie i essentially original aud
the terse epigrammatic farcc OF hi sty le.
his singing satire aud cutting sarcasm
are all Irresistible. and lac can be- humur-
ou>, pathetic. aud eloquent ~ circum-
stances may demand. There are lew
people in the Missoul Valley who do not
remember The remarkable catfish ariS-
tocracy papers ia the Kansas Magazine
written hy Mr.. Ingalls, when he VA an
obscure lawyer in Atchi,on. The satire
Of those papers >caritcd large portion Of
me clientage of the Kansas city Times,
especially in Missouri. and for that he has
never been forgiven. Besides he j. stall
wari republican and knows why. while
the Kansas City Times il Of the bourbon
democratic line, and knows why also-the
why In this case being that IL j. printed
in Missouri and it, proprietor ! Of the
later chivairy. even the chiyalry that has
grown up since the war, which i. more
quiNotic than that Of before the war. 1t
glories in tournaments where mail-clad
and jockey capped knights canter around
iair-ground ring catch other rings on
painted poles with ribbons tied to them.
which latter rings they dump into some
sympathetic young ladys lap and then
with PASTE board coronet crown her
Queen Of Love and BEAUTY. That
chivalry which bruises, beats. shoots and
fobs Of his rights the helpless negro. and
which occasionally challenges an
acknowledged equal To- a duel which i
generally bloOdless. That chiyaIry which
had no free school, until >tates rights
We're given 10 understand that this j.
na'ion with a big y and that chivalry
which today calls It's few free schools. Z
po schools and niger schools
aud ostraeises white people. ma matter
What their former resperlahilitv for
sending their children 10 such establish.
ments That l. the sort Of something in
this country which critici>.., IA. ljter,.
ture In senator ingalls,. a rhiyalry that
would find II a. difficult. ia a general
way. to plagiariz, a. 10 be- original. A. II
has read nothing from which ID might
plagiarize.
But all this aside. granting that m.
Kansas senator did utiliz. the idea. ar /
even words 81 the long dead author he
has done no mor,. than man, nt,,.,. -
even more ilustriou, memory. Ever, 4
student know, the debt which shake
speare owes Italian llteratur. vel M
eensurss him for stealing IA. old tales
and rehearsing them In halter .nst,,ni,,
Ariosto elaborat.detbe vork of HoIard.
and gave the world witboni A., refer.n..
To his predecessor The ORLANDO rnriosa :.
yet who i there childish eno,,sl a. A..
grudge Ariosto honor and famea W,
without doubt. II the less known noe, Mad
never lived and sung The more famons
There j. scarcely poet living or dead.
Who has moi In one way or another bor-
rowed twiihoui ereditlngi. TO the Had or
odessy. Note particularly Mr. Tenuv-