The daily morning journal and courier., 1894-12-29
AN GLORIOUS COMPARISON.


 us with generous praise and warns us with glowing compliment. Then 1t seeks to chill us by advising us not to tread on Hartfords corns. And then it puts some of those corns so tantalizingly in our pathway that We seem invited to tread on them. Even so is the green grass spread before him who longs to walk or roll on it while the warning sign gives him pause and makes him thoughtful of the consequences of giving way to his natural inclination.
 But however. The Courant feels moved to assert that though in some respects Hartford has not the enter prise of New Haven it has it's good points. For instance, it says that Hart ford has no slumbering scandal which is expected to awake at any moment and blast the reputation of the leaders of the community. We should hope not. If in addition to it's wide-awake scandals Hartford had slumbering one it would be too much. The fact that New Haven has a slumbering scandal indicates the self-restraint and forbearance of New Haven. Scandals are not allowed to slumber in Hart ford.
 The Courant next proceeds to joy in the fact that it hasn't any typhoid in it's oysters and in the un- derlying fact that it hasn't any oysters. And then 1t gives an exhibition of the pride it has which we have not seen equalled since the Registers famous display of "locaa pride" There are queer brides in this world. We once knew boy who was proud because
 he had more and bigger warts on his hands than any other boy in his neigh
 borhood. And if you will believe us the Hartford Courant is proud of the
 pusillanimous clans that sulk at the bottom of the Connecticut river and of
 the muskrats that wax fat in eating them. How is that for a paper pub lished in a town that lays claim to a literary atmosphere? It doesn't men, ton that it Is proud of the products of that other river, the one that doesn't run through the park, but
 perhaps it thought best to conceal that
 part of it's pride until the warm days and nights of next summer when there will be more to justify it. It also omit ted to mention that it has typhoid enough in it's drinking water. Il
 doesn't need any "native oysters" tc
 get up scare with.
 Pride goeth before fall, and there fore it does not surprise us to see tha after the Courant's outbreak of pride comes a fall. And what a fall it Is What must be the moral condition of { paper that can chortle because the town wherein it is published has smart CT thieves than the town wherein anoth
 CT paper is published? If pride in clans and muskrats precedes fall to thl: depth the current diatribes agains pride of birth, pride of wealth and pride of intellect do not cover the ground they have been supposed to cover. Nc wonder that this fall into moral confu sion brought about some mental con fusion also. Without meaning to do st the Courant paid a deserved tribute
 to New Haven when 1t intimated tha
 bag of letters from Hartford to New
 Haven would contain many receiptei
 bills. Probably New Haven cannot hon estly say that It's thieves are as smar
 as the thieves of Hartford, but it is (
 good place to do business with and i
 manages so that bills against 1t car be receipted.
 It might be expected that newspaper