The herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1893-1900, 1894-07-20

bility for the sentiments expressed1
Egotism, Bounce and Bfur.
EDITORS HERALD:-A few years ago
the following incident happened in on Q
OF the banks of your city. There wer Q
quite a number OF people in the place
the time, and possibly there may be
some who will recall the scene.
The officers and clerks were busily en-
gagged in waiting on thoae customers at
the window while others were in line
awaiting their turn, when suddenly
pompous, red-faced individual entered
and, roughly elbowing his way through
the crowd regardless OF whom he jostled,
demanded Of one of the clerks informa-
ton as to his account. The clerk in
question was evidently new man as
not recognizing his questioner, he polit-
ely inclined his head and said, what
name, sir?" At this the august person
age went into regular paroxyBm Of
rage and pranced up and down the room,
choking and spluttering like wheezy
engine. The cashier made haste to in
form the offending clerk that the iras-
chile party was "Col." Otis Of the Times,
and earnestly deprecated the fact that
any one In their employ should not re-
cognize 90 great q man as the Kernel"
However, he was finally Modified to
such an extent az to enable him to see
the door and made his exit amid the
significant smiles OF those who wit
messed the affair. S =
wish to make confession and do
go in all humility. / will not even plead
in extenuation q fallacy entertained at
the time-that it was the only paper in
the city as far as news was concerned.ll
have taken the Times for q little over
eeven years. and have loAthed the editor
thereof for exactly the same period. His
insufferable egotism and .-all-absorblng
ambition to be considered an aristocrat
would disgust even one OF those New
York Anglomaniacs who roll up their
trousers when they hear it rains in Lon
don; and if had not been auch parti.
san Republican % to believe it crime
,, per go to read Democratic paper,
should have shut his organ out OF my
house very early in the game. 1t is true
need not have taken it merely to be
consistent, for it ia very generally be-
lieved that the Rspublicanism Of the
more or lees esteemed Times is largely
matter of dollars and cents, as we'll as
personal feeling on the part of lite editor.
1t is not acknowledged in some quar-
tiers even that MIR. Otis would support
personal enemy for Office, no matter how
genuine the PERSONS political faith
might be. Not but that the political
aspirant would have cause for congratu-
lation in such q case, for the Times's
support ia usually fatal-at any rate IN
local politics.
The Times has great deal to say
about machine politics and "bossism."
Did any one ever see greater would-be
boss than "KsrneP' Otis? He is for.
ever railiHg ct the editor OF the Express
on this score, but even il true, is it not
born OF q wish to supplant him? And
under the guise OF being an independent
Republican has he not cut every princi-
pie and carved every candidate whom
he could not control, or who would not
pander to his egregious self-esteem?
II there 10 anything that is repugnant
to the average well-baianced american
it is the ridiculous assumption Of aris-
tocratic airs by anyone, and no one
without a wheel loose somewhere will
attempt IL, whatever their wealth and
culture. An illustrious ancestry ia a
noble inheritance, but we have no right
to overdraw our account. l have never
heard of the doughty, albeit windy,
KERNEL making a speech in which be
did not lug in the name OF his Boston
relative" the compatriot of Washing
ton, Adams and Patnsm. We will ad-
init that the 'kerner" has great reason
to feel proud of his decent from the old
revolutionary patriot, but is HE colonial
ancestor to be congratulated on his
side?
The STAND this egotiatical cross be-
tween the vapid "lay sermons" and the
slaney Eagle talk" has taken in the
present labor trouble, is in perfect keep
ing with his character. Let me say
right here that while | em heartily in
favor Of organized labor, just az heart.
lily detest strkes--at any rate euch
strikes as this one which 10 jnet lifting
and think the railroad men will never
be drawn into it again. They will soon
learn that there 10 u more effective way
Of obtaining relief from oppression. ami
legal way at that. When they and all
of us who toll with hand ana brain,
shall unite at the ballot box. strikes and
riots will affect ua no more. The carrion
vultures OF the plutocratic press may,
by thar gratuitous insults, endeavor to
provoke conflict, but they will have
their trouble for their paine. The OBJ
ect of the frothy vaporings of the
Times editorials for the past two weeks
are understood by all, and they have
signally failed.
| think henceforth you may look for
financial support to the "classes," to
whoee sklrts you are obseqniously
clinging, my doar kernel" aud not to
the masses" TO whom you often go con-
temptuously ellude. / am not enc Of
those who make a triangular fight and
involve third parties. | would not stop
patronlzing q merchant who advertised
in your sheet; that is his business, not
mine. But do not Gee how any SELF,
respecting laboring nan, especially q
railroad employee, can continue to sub.
scribe for it. A dog will lick the hand
that Furnishes him, but that ia no reason
why the workingman OF the twentieth
century should do so. ain glad 10 zee
them transferring their patronage to a
paper that has taken 80 manly stand
as the HERALD has done during this
trouble. DEcENCY.
San Beraardino, July IL, 1854.