Show JOUHNALISIIC DEPRAVITY Several days ago our morning contemporary printed an editorial article under the head That Slander in which it charged the HERALD with originating and first putting in circulation the scandal with which pretty nearly everybody in the west is now quite familiar through the exertions of theTribune The accusation was simply a lie and the man who made it a liar The HERALD emphatically expresser is much and our contemporary after squirming and squealing good deal admitted rather ungracefully it must be confessed that it had lied The matter should and would have stopped there had it not been for the depraved character of the downtown down-town sheet It could not rest It had induced the HERALD for once to reply to its cowardly slanders and the organ fairly raved with delight It is not often that the HERALD has been led from its straightforward upright up-right course even long enough to kick the curs that snap at its heels through jealous spite at its success suc-cess in winning and retaining the confidence esteem and respect of the community Only great provocation provo-cation induced the HERALD the I other day to thrust down the black throat of its utterer the wilf al falsehood false-hood that he had told The organ having been convicted of lying could not rest In the case of the scandal it tried to break the force of the damaging story by lying being I convicted of lying it endeavored to cause its readers to lose sight of the facts by assaulting the HERALD For days it has been keeping up a fusilade against this journal and not content with attacking the newspaper has assailed the editor in a most villainous libelous and cowardly cow-ardly manner Personalities are sometimes allowable and necessary in journalism j but only the lowbred whelp the jackal the meanest of mean things the basest of cowards the heartless brutes of the press will go into the domestic circle and try to bring pain to the hearts of pure and noble women and innocent children We have thought that if it were possible for men to crawl so low in the scale of morals they certainly could not find a harbor in journalism or shelter in the editorial edi-torial sanctum Journalism is indeed in-deed degraded when it feeds these infamous wretches with coward hearts and unclean hands The Tribune need not think to coax the HERALD to its level of debasement and immorality Sooner than it will wallow in the filth upon which its contemporary fattens it will break the presses and oast the type into the street The scurvy editor of the Tribune that cowardly assassin assas-sin of character and base assailant of women need not fear retaliation on the part of the HERALD He I may go on in his despicable course if it is possible for him to sink lowerin the slough of editorial immorality im-morality If he can he may make himself more contemptible contempti-ble in the eyes of decent men and women who now loath the fellow whose very features and form are indelibly branded with a tale of boyish depravity and pollution and later immorality and debauchery The Herald is through with the unclean thing who is i libel upon all that is honest manly noble or decent and a fraud upon the race to which he professes to belong The fellow awakens our pity rather than excites our anger for it is sad to see one in human form whose moral nature is sohor ribly deformed And if his vulgarity libels and personal attacks cannot annoy they certainly are harmless in all other espects The reputation and name of the editor of the HERALD are safe from injury at the hands of the thing of moral depravity presiding over the editorial columns of the Tribune I |