The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1895-10-23
FLAYED ALIVE.

THE PULPITS ARE NOT RESPONSE
BILE FOR THE RUIN OF THE LAND.
Editor Representative:
The Minneapolis Times (Tory) quotes
what it calls "a thoughtful contempor-
ary," az follows:
There, perhaps, has never been in the
United States so much crime in the shape
Of transformations, murders, ETC., as has
been recorded in the public prints during
the month Of July. There is not single
day in the week that a person can take
up paper but he finds it crammed full
Of crimes Of the most atrocious character.
There IS no part of the country, no age,
sex or conditions Of humanity exempt.
Murders the most diabolical sort and
brutal assaults Of the most aggravated
nature upon inoffensve people are quite
the order of the day."
The Times heads this fearful calamity
howl with full-faced conundrum: What
is the matter?" 1t then goes on and adds
the most frightfully exaggerated howl of
all, by saying:
Even dull, monotonous New England
villages have been made the scenes of the
most brutal and revolving murders. In
the most enlightened sections of the coun-
try, where education IS the most widely
diffused-where culture is the highest
and the close friction that comes of dens1
population is supposed to promote smooth
er and less Earring relations than are
found in newer parts of the country"
In Cl
only can know what else this assassin of
the public character intended to say, for
he cut the unfinished sentence short off
with a paragraph. He has told of the aw
full condition of thing in dull New
England villages" and there are no
doubts that he intended to fabricate more
hideous living pictures of the most
enlightened sections of the country
where culture is the highest" Tin price,
probably but the rhetorical wheels in
the editorial head slipped out of. gear,
and the whole Over-Strained machine
came to statu quo right in the middle
of an exaggerated period. "a thoughtful
contemporary had made him incoher-
ent. 1t is quite probable that the editors
excessive horror at the atroc:ous monot-
ony of New England village murders, and
the examining OF the papers full of crimes
from which no age, or sex Or conditions
OF humanity were exempt, caused several
bearings in his mental plant to become
red-hOt, and thus caused Earring rela-
tons" and disconnections in his rhetoric.
al machinery. In no other way can we
account for that remarkably lucid para
graph quoted entire above.
The writer has an indistinct recollec-
ton that a lot of Populists, at Omaha.
ryh0 ~ o1
something about finding ourselves on the
brink of moral and political ruin, and he
has most distinct memory of the fact,
that even years after this awful thing was
uttered over in Nebraska, the Times went
into spasm after spasm of Indignation at
this "sratuitous Islander Of the American
people,"
Within a month the Times has fallen
into several fits of nervous prostration
over this ''glaring Populistic utterance.'
1t strikes common minds very forcibly,
that there was something tame and harm
less in that Omaha declaration, compared
to the Times wholesale allegation that no
man, woman nor child-no rich or poor,
black or white Or tan-colored, among Am
erican humanity, are exempt from diabol-
ical crimes; the most atrocjous in the
sections where education is most widely
dffused and culture the highest This
is the logical meaning of IT'S language,
if it may be called language?
The Times in its boosted European Edi-
ton nowhere tells the foreign reader,
that among all of our American huma nifty,
only the agelesS, the SeXleSS, and cOndi-
ticnless are exempt from murders of the
most diabolical sort and brutal assaults
Of the most aggravated nature upon the
inc ncix fhn o,r1o ~
day" In no obscure corner of this not
able effort to bambooZle all Europe, did
it cram" the record of one assassination
or quote a thoughtful contemporary in
proof of such a terrible condition of
moral and political ruin'as it dishes up
for its home patrons. 1t did not assassi-
nate English rhetoric in an attempt to
show Europeans that the most enlightened
sections of this country are the most dia-
bolically criminal. Tory as this journal
is by every instinct of it's nature, it for
once was American enough to suppress
its propensity to exaggerate the evils of
republican society.
If every day in the week. the papers
are crammed full of records of atrocious
crimes, it must be as general news items.
In such case, the Tines, as a newspaper,
has proven itself totally unqualified
failure. | have examined it's file for that
awful July Of which it speaks, and find
that about one line is devoted to recording
atrociOuS crimes, while five hundred are
''crammed fulr' of other matter; that is.
unless it's senseless bolderdash and ig-
norant misrepresentation along the line
of its British-tory politics. are rated as
crimes. In such case of course, "crammed
full' may not be an exaggeration.
To show what a thoughtful contem-
porary" of other papers this journal is.
| canot resist quoting a few editorial ex-
cerpts from just two later numbers, as
samples of its consistency and RELIABLE
ity:
''The cities of the country Unjust in
clude Minneapolis) are licensed centers of
outlawery and wee. 49,. The privileges
Of vice and outlawry enjoyed in many
cities and towns are duly paid for in dol
lars and votes. These privileges are mere
ly the spoils of Office
Times are improving in Chicago, the
tellers are beginning to loot the banks
again."
THE masses are being educated and up
lifted. ~. The world IS a better world
than our fathers lived in"
THE land is filled with vicious, drum
ken, dangerous beggars. 80. The tramp
must CO.
1.-The conditions of the working people
are improving"
Even dull monotonous New England
villages are the scenes of the most brutal
and revolving murders"
This batch of editorial trash and para
doxical slush was "crammed' in between
it's usual stereotyped vaporings about the