The herald., 1896-02-28
THE HooDoo FOR HIGHLANDS

The Daily Hoodoo, alias Times, is
mad. It is mad with madness that
rocks the roost Of its braesy bird and
threatens with disintegration the in
ternational scrap counter across which
credulous people are induced to pay
the price of alleged advertising. The
Hoodoo is 30 mad that it leaks
language and drips froth. It raves
with rage that is tempestuous and
howls with a howl that makes the
triple howl of the solitary wolf ION
Ounalaska's lonely shore" seem like the
timid echo of subdued whisper. In
| fact the Hoodoo is so rabid that the
instinct of the people yet unbitten by
| hydrophobic dogs should stimulate
them to invoke protection from the
thing. The Hoodoo should not in its
present condition be allowed to circu-
late around the streets and Chinatown.
Except in the latter quarter it may
| not circulate to q large degree.
but whatever the degree is the
| authorities should stop it. The
days we have now are OF
the canine kind, and during such days
the Hoodoo, in its present condition,
should not be allowed to chase around
and prey on the pockets aud persons
Of the people. It should be tied to the
First-street embankment-tied with
the silken ribbon Of "lyric artist" or
made fast to Broad way bulkhead with
chain of the "reminiscences Of the
victories that have been lost.
The cause of the Highlands condi.
tion of the Hoodoo is to be found in
The HERALD's exposure of it's attempt
to bsfuddle the public as to why the
$1,000 forfeit money put up by it in
pretended acceptance of The HERALD's
challenge was withdrawn, and in The
HERALD's plain ventilation of the dis
as.rous effects of the Hoodoo's support
of anything. The quantity that serves
as substitute for reason in the make
up of the Hoodoo gave way when The
HERALD's rays Of light penetrated the
shield Of deceit and deception behind
which it constructs its schemes and
builds it's fslsehoods.
| But the Hoodoo's case is not hope.
less, for in its incoherent chattering
yesterday in which it mumbled about
snakes and other uncanny things that
those with delirium tremens and the
Jim jams do see, we're some evidences
of naturalness. It is apparent that the
spirit of untruth yet survives in meas
urable vigor, for the Widest outpour-
ings of the Hoodoo's disordered men,
tality-or the thing that it uses for
mentality - we're interspersed with
specimens of most accurate and grace
full lying. Thus the Hoodoo bsbbled:
"THE HERALD in November last worked
highly.ornate bunco game on the good
women of the Free kindergarten associa-
ton. The Times exposed the scheme and
The HERALD undertook to run a bluff on
the Times in order to protect itself and
break the force of the expose.
"The Times saw the bluff and asked THE
HERALD to come to the scratch and fight
the case to finish.
'At the end of nearly seven weeks, after
being prodded by the Times, THE HERALD
replied that it was willing to crawtish and
said about it. The Times is not given to
the suppression of facts, and the story of
The HERALD'S igncminious and disgrace.
full backdown was given to the public"
The chief fault to be found with the
first of the assertions quoted is that it
is what some one has politely desig-
mated as 6gment of the imagination,
which translated into ordinary English
means-a lie.
The "highly ornate banco game worked
on the good women of the Fres Kinder
garten Association" consisted in allow
ing those most estimable ladies to edit
and publish the Thanksgiving edition
of the HERALD and to have the net
profits of the edition for the charity
they so we'll represent. The outcome
of this "bunco game" to the ladies was
profit of over $780, that sum repre-
senting the receipts in excess of the
expenditures for the edition. The
ladies have that amount and have had
it long time-they have not got it to
get, like certain other charitable in
! stitution.
The HERALD announced repeatedly
previous to the publication of the
edition that the entire net profits of
the same would be allowed the ladies
for the kindergarten Association and
the HERALD, unlike the Hoodoo, acted
honestly and kept its word.
The only exposure the Hoodoo in
dulged in was that OF its slum- red
meanness and picayune jealousy, and
when it was caught in the doorway of
wanton prevarication it put up in a
spirit of bravado its finger pressed d.
lars in response to The HERALD's chal-
lenge, and then proceeded to dodge
"the case to a finish.''
The Hoodoo mumbles that it sis not
given to the suppression of facts;" an
| assertion that is certainly indicative of
lapse of memory or an economy of
verscity. That it is given to the dis
tortion of facts as we'll as distribution
of disaster to all that it supports thou
sands will testify.
But the Hoodoo can exhaust the
category Of excuses and exploit to the
utmost the resources of the Forty
Liars, it caunot cloud the shining fact