Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1901-02-26
A COMMON SCOLD.

and business.
A COMMON SCOLD.
We much fear that Editor .Winship is
developing into a common scold. Criti-
cism and fault finding are habits that
grow. It is not difficult to train the eye
to see nothing that is pleasing or the
mind to believe only what is bad. Edi-
tor Winship seems to be reaching this
lamentable condition OF mind. For years
he has been criticising and fault finding.
The editorial columns of the Herald
have abounded with scolds, scolds, scolds.
Now it has come to pass that the Her
AIDS editorials are discounted in advance
and whatever influence that amiable
journal might exert is lessened because
people have come to look upon it as a
common scold.a
The latest ~efusion of the Herald is a
wholesale criticism of the members of
the legislature for straying away from
the ideals of their constituents. There
is that old time and worn assertion that
Bismarck is away from the populous dis
tricts and that its atmosphere is a false
atmosphere. The statement is made
that legislators Don after arriving at
Bismarck are contaminated by the bad
air that is exhaled by the legislature as
an organization. They fall into evil
ways and it is such a long distance to
Bismarck from the centers of purity,
most notable among which is the Herald
Office at Grand Forks, that before good
air a be messaged to them from the
Herald and other purifying sources, the
legislature has adjourned and the evil is
done. -,'
1t is to be regretted that the Herald
has SO poor IN opinion of the members
of the legislature as to declare that they
can be SO easily led away from right
paths. We Ear imagine a member blown
full of the Herald's pure air, starting for
Bismarck with the best and hottest
ideals, only to fall by the wayside and go
home tainted with the communicating in
huences that Editor .Winship believes
are exerted by legislators as a body.
Notwithstanding the fact that many
copies of the Herald come to the capital
city every day laden with purity and
good advice, the effect of the Herald's
editorials seem to be lost in transmits
sion. The. editorial cork is not pushed
in tightly enough and the essence loses
its strength.
There is only one remedy that might
be suggested, and that is that Editor
Winship make a vicarious sacrifice oil
himself and came out to Bismarck to re.
main during the session. 1t is aver pos.
sihle that living in the bad air about
bismarck he might become contami
mated, but he could have the Herald
c every day to keep him as near the
path of rectitude as possible. Edito,
= Winship might then assume personal
charge of those members of the legisla.
tu-e who were in need of a mentor OF
monitor to keep them from falling into
evil ways. There might be schools fol
the erring instituted, with Editor Win
ship as chief of the faculty, to teach
the members how best to represent thei,
constituents.
Editor Winship is against most every
thing that has been done by the present
legislature. He is against the appor
tionment bill. He is against the tax fol
educational institutions. He is a vigor
GUS defender of the special tax for thu
university, but when it is proposed tt
put other educational institutions or
the same basis, he is opposed to it. Ac
eerding to the Herald there is NO insti
tuition in the state worthy of a SECOND
thought except the university, and nt
reliable dispenser Of personal and po
GticaI purity outside of the Grand Forks
Herald : 4 ~
The Herald says it, will do the legis
lature good toSget out into the pure air
away from the contamination Of tn,
capital city. We would suggest to thu
editor of the Herald that he take a few
lessons ia optimism. That he get on
into the air and endeavor to see some
thing thatis pleasing and good. Tha
ae listen TO the birds singing, to tn,
music of the winds and to the chorus O
nature, and bring himself to believe tina
aAi y not vile and vicious. Let hin
studiouslyy and sedulously endeayor t.
see something cheerful and pleasant il
He,sis living ii the darkness ant
pom Of his own fault.inding nature
HIS revels ID the clammy cailI Of his owr
psinnism. He ;orgets that
her amt no flowers at all s
Nssre tn' ann - never shinin' an tn, shadow
illus tall. ny
his advice Is given the editor Of til
erald in all sincerity. Possibly hi
DIGESTION ID bad. He rises ia the morn