Owingsville outlook. [volume] (Owingsville, Ky.) 1879-192?, 1897-03-25

fast and-lo self-constituted or
acle. They want the truth, the
whole truth and nothing but the
truth.
Nor are they blind to the Incl
dents of the everyday life with
which they have to deal. They
know the calculating bIgot, who is
in reality humbug and who can
be relied on to be equally rampant
and prOscriptive on whatever side
his interest inclines to. They know
the mean and housing malignant,
splenetic and envious, who, to gain
IA little cheap glory, or to carry
some crazy project, would burn a
baby at the stake. These types of
human deformity and depravity
are just as numerous and lively to-
day as they were in the days of the
InquisitiOn and the Star Chamber,
only they can not proceed under
cover of the darkness, or employ
the weapons of the midnight assas-
sin. They must come into the open
and stand there. They must fight
with civilized weapons and fight
fair. They must abide the issue
and accept the consequences of
their acts.
Inevitably all such hate the Cou-
rier-Journal. But it is not in the
least disturbed about it's material
fortunes either in the present or
the future. In the past those enc
mics who have made it the business
of their lives to mop the earth with
it daily, have sooner or later gone
to their account. In the present, it
experiences too little discomfort to
feel resentment, albeit, the public
can hardly fail to share with it the
contempt it must entertain for mere
chronic perversity, and wanton
malevolence. Yet. as to the future,
it could wish to do the party and
the State some service, and, TO this
end, it has invoked and will con-
tinue to invoke the most enlight-
ened judgments of the most en-
lightened men, refusing now as al
ways to look to or consider the ig-
norant passions of that section of
the community, which can only be
reached by wind and noise, the sole
and ready devices of the meritless
charlatan.
In conclusion, let us repeat what
we have said before, that if those
. who assail us-every mothers son
of whom has either directly or in
directly some AK to grInd-can
stand the racket, why so can the
Courier-Journal; but if they will
take the trouble to look about
/ them, if they will let their way
ward fancies travel beyond the
; barnyard where they cackle they
will see that not only is the trend
of modern thought against them,
but the drift of political forces IN
all the great commanding States
that the free coinage of silver al
, the ratio of Is to /, or any other
ratio, is as dead as the institution
; of African slavery; that the
United States is on the ascending,
t not the descending scale of Nation.
: al development, and the Govern
! ment good to maintain itself, the
Constitution and the laws intact
, for a century at least; and that he
who straps himself to the vagaries
: of Populism, whether thinly dis
: guised as Democracy or openly pro-
claimed, will find, when it is toe
= late, that he has mounted a rain
2 bow to ride after tempest.
Better stop and think, gentlemen
I Buster is u good dog, but Truth
, will catch more hares. Nobody car
| stop you, of course, if you like il
and want more of it; but don't yoJ
: think that you have sworn the
: horse to be sixteen feet high quit,
9 long enough considering how mucf
: it has cost you?