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Show VICE. . ! i'Vics is a moDstar of such hidfou? miec, As to be hated netds but to be seen. Till seen too oft, familiar Willi her face. We lirst endure, then pity, lh-n (in-brac." (in-brac." Tribune Biue Ribbon. Precisely; and this ia tbe record ol tbe sadly disheartening effect to bring a certain lively journal of your city to a sense of morality. For blactguard-! blactguard-! ing has about it a flavor of immorality. immoral-ity. Also exaggeration $nd mieatate-! mieatate-! men! are commonly considered as j near of kin to the "hideous vice" ci j lying. Tnerefore our solicitude for the standing of the journal referred to. True, nobody has apparently dele-: dele-: gated to it the task of defending what is true; but when it trifles with truth, all friends of truth are slightly astonished. aston-ished. True, also, nobody constituted it absolute vindicator ol tingle wed- : lock; but when it betrays a blackguard black-guard viciousness monogamy itself blushes involuntarily. Tbe habit ol unecruputoaity and blackguardism would Beem, however, judging from the terma a..d tote of a i etice in the Tribune headed "Po lyg Gentile," and signed "Blue Kib-! Kib-! bon," of something I had sent to you I "without note or comment," to be ingrained in-grained in certain cases. j Monogamy plus blackguardism to ! repeat what, has heretofore neen a a id in your columns, is an alliance unfair 1 to monogamy. I refer to this case as only an index, a very Blight one, to 1 the hopelessness of the habit of a "monster vice" unscrupulous blackguardism black-guardism "Which Eeen' too oft, ftmiliar with her face Men first endure, then pity, thon embrace em-brace " Were it not to make too much of a very small matter, I would say "I tbauk thee Jew for tho word." Glxtile. |