| Show liE SqUIIt3IS We observe that the editor of our morning contemporary exhibits a lively sense of having been punctured with a pin It should have a salutary if Irritating effect It will serve to teach him how other folks feel when he darts his poisoned arrows at them barbed with malice and dipped in falsehood He is merely getting avery a-very attenuated and infinitesimal dose of his own medicine without the ingredient of untruth He ought not to take it with such a wry face and such violent contortions But we are sorry to see that he does not desist from evading as is his wont the points under controversy nor from arrogating wisdom to himself him-self and Imputing ignorancato others instead of proving that he is right or showing that his adversary is wrong Tht Herald does not care to repeat the proofs which the laws we have cited afford that the pretended silver oracle is sadly lacking in acquaintance with some of the simplest facts and principles that pertain to the coinage question He has not answered them He cannot do so fairly To quote his own words he is pursuing the case precisely as a pettifogger pursues a case in court and its course is the one which which is always adopted either by among men or among newspapers the cowardly and baseborn That is one of the proofs of courage and high breeding which the eminent straddler usually offers when worsted He calls names and abuses others in avoiding a square issue We will I leave this matter with another quotation quota-tion from the same authority with the wish not arising however to the height of a hope that he will apply it strictly to himself and that is that i I before writng about any subject it is i 1 a good idea to master some of the elemantary facts concerning it and then to treat of the matter with some degree of honesty and intelligence |
