The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-02-24

papers, none OF whon hnpnen 10 fhNoi
{ tho Anti-Salocn Leagues desire FOR
Statewide prohibition, II was no,
long. therefore. before the community
ospicd the apostle of journalistic god.
! illness Up TO Its elbows in the stream
! spouting bitterly and denounoinE this
! paper as the enemy or the home and
the church. We ourselves We're no,
J much concerned about this self-tfis
play: we watched the proceedings with
mild interest. hut when VIC perceived
J tile New paper setting afoot n very
serious misstatement of the position of
] this paper. we called its attention TO its
/ error, assuming. even then, as a mat
ter of course that the retraction which
honest secular papers always give in
| such case. would promptly follow.
Instead. the New paper boldly repeated
1 its offense next day, and we thercupon
/ rcgretfully set the stamp of untru,h
| upon IL and challenged II to make good
! its words The label still stands
| where we pasted 1t down. Tho chal-
| lenge still stands. still suidiously ig-
| it's words. and knows that II cannot,
but IT moves too close TO the ground,
it seems, to be able to rise to manly
retraction. 1t has dropped the quota
J tion marks: discarded the "favorite
slogan claim as though it burnt (as
1t would burn any honest paper; but
down to the last opportunity. it is
still sneaking and smuggling in rem
inscence OF its former statement. hug
ging and soldering over its own re-
! vealed untruths in some mean effort.
we suppose. to brazen 1t out and save
its face And the Baltimore and Rich
: mond Christian Advocate, James Can
non, Jr.. president, aids and abets the
Richmond Virginian and generously
contributes It's front page and more to
the carrying on of the glorious work.
In the light of one. we may under
stand all. BY their fruits ye shall know
them. Pulling the mask off of Virtue
that is not is no agreeable task. and we
have undertaken It here, for once, only
| because 1t seemed to US right that the
community should understand what
| manner of self constituted prophet n
has. For ourselves, we remain. as we
began. untroublcd and serene Tho
Dispatch has seen prophets rise
and fall before now. 1t has weathcrcd
| much abuse. as the logical price OF
| saying what 1t thinks, and II expects
| to weather much more. It-with its
| mr. odpre
| before the Richmond Nirginian came
and 1t expects to be here long whilo
after the Richmond Virginian is gone. .
| But we linger TOO long at our un-
pleasant duty. and must now be done
with it. We shall not pause to expose
| the long series of perversions that
! sully columns not yet month old. We
| shall not stop to handle as 1t deserves
the malicious reproduction in those
columns of the statement OF country
| newspaper that The Times-Dispatch
Is the acknowledged organ of the
saloons and the whiskey trust" though
we think there are several In the
Moral Office who know we'll tina, this
| statement IS false. We shall not even
stay 10 show up the untruthfulness
of It's representation that The Times
Dispatch has repudiated it's own edi-
torial columns. though the fact Is that
The Times-Dispatch has rcputliated
no word that ever appeared in its
columns, not even the chance verbal
turns OF its writers of many years ago.
There is, indeed, much more that
might be added. but we trust we have
now said enough to point the contrast
between the sleek pretensions Of the
New paper and that papers actual
character: to show the depth and tho
nature of it's advertised morality; t.:
turn for moment searching flash
light upon the journal which has
publicly thanked God that it is not
as other papers are, and In SO short a
while has set all clean and honest
4 papers in sound of its voice to echoInS
the thanksgiving,
OF all types or manhood, The normal
American despises most the hypocrlte
and the humbug- OF all types of hypu-
crisy, he despises most hypocrisy at
fected for the sake of money gain. Now
we turn aside this morning from our
labors to put this mark upon the fore
head or the Richmond Vlrg1niun. TO
wear where 1t will and henceforward
to so its own way. 1t is paper
} which %as no gentleman when 1t wax
. born, and which the sweet light OF
day has not summoned to aspire and
to climb: a paper which has deliberace-
iy elected to wear the meek robe OF
saintship to conceal we know not wlla,
torments OF desired gain and OF am
bition of the earth earthly; paper
,, which kisses heaven with its lips and
: snusgles the comfortable ground Will
It's bosom; paper which advertises IL
: morality in the Rialto, and does not
/ We fear know the only morality that
, ever amounts to anything-the NOR,
: atty that comes from a noble, kindly
and humble heartily sight. Their
3 Is no need for us to write an cpitapl
: for any man or any paper devoted /,
such ideals as these. That has beel