The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1893-03-11
.PSYCH|CAL DELIRIUM
The Brooklyn Standard.
Union Solves the MYs-
terry of Major Pang-
born's Editorial
Inspiration.

Besides reproducing THE JERSEY
CITY NEWS deadly parallel" and
its editorial discussion of the questions
where and how Major Pangborn gets
his ''ideas," the Brooklyn Standard
Union, in its issue of Thursday, March
g.. contributes the following Interest,"
ing views to the controversy
1t was Literary HJpnotism-De-
plorabie Deadly Parallel.
We reproduce from The JERSEY CITY
NEWS Of March z, singular literary dis
play. under the personal head:-"Oh.
Shame, Major PanG born" Our surprise
when this deep. dark line arrested our
glance increased to astonishment when il
was developed that an editorial ar ticle
which appeared in the Standard Union
as the leader February 2S. reappeareda
revised, if we may use the express
sion, and enlarged, in the Jersey City
Euentng Journal of March 2, The general
result being to produce what we may be
allowed to style ph enomenal coinoi-
dence in words, style and sentiment.
The readers oil the Standard Union are
entitled to the deadly PARALLEL prepared
by THE JERSEY CITY NEWS for the demo-
Iit;or ~ Nfoior Do,1hopn and 0iao to rhA
cruel comment of THE NEWS, which does
not at all manifest spirit of generosity
and forgiveness toward an esteemed and
lamented contemporary. eve use the
word lamented for euphony, and as q
courteous synonym for lamenusble.) The
leader OF The NEWS is:-"Piraey or Hyp-
notism-Wnichs" We unhesitatingly
adopt the theory of hypnotism. Nothing
but Inconsistencies of criminal intsntion
could have permitted the conspicuous
display of stolen goods. 1t must hava
been known to the eminent Major who
is called upon by his naighbor to be
ashamed, that the Standard Union is
constantly sold and circulated in jersey
City. If literary expert with medical
intelligence will examine the "deadly
parallel" articles, the evidence of hypnot-
ism, as it is cultivated in Paris. becomes
decisive. There are several things unac-
countable on any other theory we are
willing to adopt.
The Standard linton fiuds itself very
largely quoted and credited in the jour-
nails of the country. We discover with
satisfaction that the Jersey City E0cntng
journal of March 8, the day after the
deadly parallel" day. in the news under
he appropriate head, Comments OF the
Press"-"Terse Opinions from all
Sources" copies with full credit the
Standard U1lion's article on "Cleveland's
Second inaugural" This shows that ths
malsdy of unconscious cere6ration and
involuntary appropriation has been
overcome. and closely followed oY
period of lucidity. 1t may be possible
that our paragraphs have an inherent
attractiveness that conducss to assimila-
ton, and that we leave glittering train
of thoughtfulness by which our progress
may be traced. We are sensitive to all
forms of fiattery, the sincerest OF which
is stealing our productions. and we con-
done such offensss, and will not be SO ILL
natured under any provocation rs to men-
tion many that have been brought TO our
attention; but we draw the line on such
impertinent additions to our work, reBre-
duced with or without credit, as those
the Evcning Journal committed IN what
we trust we may believe was temporary
fit of psychical rhetorical deliriun.