The Sentinel=record., 1911-10-22
FROM THE TOME.

Now that the Tines explosion case Is on trial. and in this section we are so far removed from the scene that publication or comment will have no bearing on the case, 1t will be inter csting to slse public to read what Brann, the late Texas writer. thought Of General Otis, owner of the Times, and incidentally will show something of the prejudice and bias that q long protracted fight with organized labor has produced:
 T have just discovered the shame ful exility Of the English language, it's poverty oi expression, it's made quacy as mental exchange medium its nsfer inability to describe what it were a crime to leave uncatalogu cd. We have great many vitriolic words. sesquibedalian words, even what the Germans are wont to call thunder worls;" but none of them, either sinely or in combination can hs hs the the grace of infection or poetic ii- cense, be made to answer my pur- pose. want real nice word with which to signify something awfu nasty; but would. for this occasion ouls, dispense with euphemsm were it sufficiently expressive. I must have word woven of warp o shame and wool of nfamy by some foul Duessa playing her loom among the damneda word that will sigli- fy featheriess two-legeed animal who is neither man or ape; whose soul is but the suspiratioa of sick buzzard anu his cerebral cancellations the writhing of malodorous maggots; who is criminal and not coffirt | q lazar and not compelled to cry 'ui- clean who Is . superating sore on the body soclal-a creature SC foul that were Doll Tearsheet his mother. Falstaff his father. and Per. lition his birthplace. he would shame his shameless dam, disgrace his grace less sire, ana dishonor his honorless country. have explored the En glish tongue from abe to xyz. exam ined tho terlninology of reptalia at. tended political conventions and even hoard Sam Jones preach. but find no words. printable or otherwise. iii the vornacular of the polite or the patois Of the vulgar, that covers the case.
 ai ;ssAi siis ;set sxpress my opinion oi tie Times man, not ifow-~it wouiin't look we'll In print. If I should ever he convenient to tell him personally what I think~of him. and there are no ladies present, perhaps shall find a word that will answer my pur- pose. If 1t be possible for good tree to bring forth foul fruit If Ap- pies of sodom will spring from a Ben Davis stem then perhaps his father was . gentleman Ills mother was probably respectable woman who. becoming frightened by. some hideous nightmare, brought forth a monster Hamlet might "unpack his cures" leyeied at the cowardly as- sassins of his sire. l can but won der what will become of the Times editor when the breath leaves his faculent body and death stops the rat. tling of his abortiye brain for he is unfit for heaven and too foul for hell He cannot be buried in earth lest he provokes pestilence, nor in the sea lest he poison the fish, nor swung in space like Mahomet's cof- fin lest the circlng worlds in trying 10 avoid contamination. crash to. gether, wreck the universe, and bring the noisome reign of Chaos and ole Night, The DamrascaI seems to be white elephant on :ha hands of Dietys and I have some curiosity to Anc# what He will do with il.
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