The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-09-12
A WORD 10 PEFFFR.
EN-Candidate Reid demonstrates
with the Successor to ingalls,.


Prom the Ncw York Tribune.
PETER dear! Come off the perch The
Tribune would like word or two with
you ON "the insolence of the metropolitan
press, which you declared the other day
i'm the Senate was "intolerable' To you,
and that the people of the west had no
patience with it," What did you mean,
PETER, dear, by saying twas intolerable'
That You couldn't tolerate it any longer2
1t reads so. Now do you know, PETER
dear that that raises the question at
once. What are you going to do with it
or have done with it TO get rid Of toll
Grating 1t Did it occur TO YOU that YOU
must either tolerate it or put a stop to it,
With our knowledge of the metropolitan
press and its conductors, we are prepared
to say that not "a single newspaper will
stop publication of its own accord simply
because YOU have made formal announce
ment on the floor of the Senate that its
lnSOlence Is intOlerable. You don't pro-
pose TO use violence, do you, PETER, dear2
And If you don't, and they are determined
To keep on doing business, we really don I
sec how you are to eXtriCate yourself from
the dilemma in which YOU have placed
yourself. For all that we can see you
Will be obliged to sit up and let the wind
blow through your whiskers while you
tolerate the intOlerabe, bear the unbear-
able, suffer the insufferable and endure
the uncomfortable. PETER, dear, we fear
your mouth went off before your power
full intellect had put its finger on the trig-
ger.
Then, too, you said that "the people of
the west had no patience" with the met
ropolitan press What precisely did you
mean by that? We understand, of course,
\
lty on the metropolitan press, but did
you think you were paying a compliment
to the intelligence of those whom you de-
scribe as 1.-The people of the west2'
What kind of people, PETER, dear-did
you ever think of it?-what kind of peo-
pie are they who "have no patience
with things they can't helpl Are they
wiser Are they the sort of people to be
consulted in the conduct of affairs any
affairs, great or small? Have you ever no
| ticed, PETER, in your reading of history
that 1t isn't the people who get out
of patience with things that are
| beyond their reach and fret
and worry and bruise themselves against
the bars of their environment-that it
isn't that sort of people who accomplish
| things in this wOrld2 Have you ever
| thought that this quality of patience
| which you say the western people have
| the saving grace, of states and nations
that it is the very highest virtue in man
| and the GROWING attribute of the Crea-
tori To "have no patience" with affairs
that are quite beyond your interference
is not good sign. 1t implies weakness.
And between ourselves, PETER, we sus-
| pect that you had no right to speak for
the people of the west' in that way.
The majority of them are too sensible to
lose patience with anything so far off and
so much beyond their reach as the metro
politan press
Calm yourself, PETER. You don't rep
resent so many people as you think you
do. In the judgment of many thoughtful
persons in this country, much that you
think YOU know as to the conduct of pub
lie affairs is not so, and there is little of it
that it would not be a relief to the coun-
try and an advantage to yourself to hold
stopper on, Your predecessor, John
James Ingalls,, was given to much speak
ing. He liked the sound of it. The re-
suit was that he followed his mouth out
into private life. Take warning, PETER
The things you don't say you won't be
sorry for