Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-12-16

BY my learned friend that maybe swore.
There is an old story very applicable.
Someone spoke to another about swearing,
and the reply was You pray and swear,
but neither of us means anything by 1t.
Laughter.
"Now, of course, no one is to justify any
kind of language that is unpleasant with
his associates, but there are now and then
occasions in which swearing may be re-
garded as q virtue. 1t may be regarded as
the blossom of honest indignation. do not
think any great war was ever carried to
successful issue without . good deal OF
swearing
Times When Explosives Are Proper.
'T think there are times when volcanic
and explosive words burst from the crater
of the heart and do good. If they get too
common nobody pays any attention to them
any more than to the prayers that L men
toned. They are not heard.
"What is the next charge? Incompatl-
bility. And what did the incompatibility
arise out of? said long ago in this case,
and repeat it now, it grew out of the ad-
vertising business from the Police Commls-
sioners. When . man, an employer, Is
caught in dishononble act by another, by
an employe, he hates that man. Let any
man tell to another or suggest to another
that which is criminal, and if the other does
not fall in and work with him they Will
become gradually incompatible. The man
who has got the seeds of rascality in him
does not like man to be very near him who
has not got similar seeds and who knows
that he has He begins to dislike him.
That is human nature. That is the tounda-
tion OF the incompatibility in this case.
''The evidence in this case shows to me
clearly that Colonel Shepard wanted to get
rid of this man, and was laying all sorts of
traps for that purpose. On October l, 1889,
he wrote letter to him marked Personal,
private and confidential He saws to him,
You have not been success on this pa
per-
Anxious for Mr.. Gray's Soul.
"He became anxious about the soul of
Mr. Gray. Wouldn't he go back to Chi
csgo, where the temptations were less?
Why expose himself to the temptations of
this great city when, by going to Chicago,
he could be comparatively safe? Flee, he
said, for the safety of your soul Do not
turn back. Or, if you wish particularly to
stay here and be ruined by the temptations
of the city, could you contihe yourself to our
advertising department on q scale Of COM
pensation to be agreed upon?"
'What does that mean, my learned friend?
1t does not mean that do not want you; it
does not mean that you are incompetent
and incompatible, that you swear and get
drunk 1t means want you to remain in
my establishment, but at a less price. That
is what it means, and that is what it says. [
can put up with swearing on small salary.
Laughter.
Another charge, the charge of black
mail, and then the wonderful thing of
keeping this memorandum. Now, accord
ing to my learned friends argument, Gray
knew that that was an innocent paper.
Shepard knew that it was an innocent
paper What was the harm in keeping it
if it was innocent?
Only One Thing Right to Do.
'eNow turn it around and suppose it was
in fact a criminal paper, and suppose it was
this man, finding that he was to be dis
charged by Shepard, claimed that he was
dishonest Would he be true to himself if
he did not keep that paper? Certainly not.
Suppose had been in the employ OF q
man, and he had written me letter like
that to bribe public official, and then he
had charged me with being a dishonest
scoundrel-wouldn't keep that paper as
my sword and shield to defy the miserable
devil? That is exactly what Gray did.
When Comanche Indian comes stretching
ger in the other, and you have got shield
that will turn the point of the savage's dag
ger, YOU use it That is what we did.
''Let's 90 to another thing. That he vio-
lated the hospitality OF Shepard by saying
that he saw him drunk in his own house.
Who made him violate it, Mr.. Parsons?
Did you ever see him drunk in any other
place?' You asked him that; did you want
him to lie?
''Mr. Shepard had attended an emaneipa-
tion meeting that night. 1 think there is
freedom go together think so. Avery
good line it is. Laughter And undoubt-
edly whisky and freedom went together
that night, and undoubtedly Mr.. Shepard
did drink the whisky, and undoubtedly he
was under the influence of liquor, and l
think none the less OF him for it, only for
denying it.
The Colonel Wakes More Eloquent.
''Oh (and it was actually touching to see
Mr.. Ingersoll's fervent expression as he
raised his arm and gazed upward), there
have been some magnificent men, great
writers, great actors, painters, poets, sculp-
tors, musicians, statesmen and kings of the
world who have absolutely filled themselves
with wine! Yes, some of the best, some
that would no more try to bribe man than
they would try to cut their own hearts out
There have been men so drunk that they
have lain on their backs and felt up in the
air for the grass who would never have
written this line: You can probably have
this amount added to the bill There are
men who have died of delirium tremens
who would never have taken the jewel of
honor from the soul of fellow man, and
who would not have written: They are
weak and yield easily"
Throughout this delivery Colonel Shepard
sat with folded arms, gazing at the ceiling
with an expressionless face. At times,
when the attack came sharp and when the
laughter broke out, his cheeks be came
trife redder, but very few in the court
room noticed it. At the jokes of Colonel
Ingersoll that were not directed against
him he smiled.
The verdict was returned at 4:45 The
long wait had discoura ed the plaintiff, and
neither he, Colonel Ingerson nor ex-Judge
Dit enhoeffer was in the court room when
the jury came in