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Show , ! MiscGllciruj j 1 In Defense of I,enion Pie. TVHItatn A'l'ii White In mi lonnrlaiii who nho'it'l bf rostra. nM. He goeu 8 hour with fi Hplkd blinlfteon umashlnjr our Idnls and compound -frar tilling some of our most rnertaned Ins. Init.on. N B-'hedule of his deeds of destruction would read like an Inventory of the onlM shop after the bull paaaed out. He strikes right and left with the blind and ruth lest rajr of a Rerx-vker. utterly rerdlfPH of our attachments at-tachments fir our emotions. And now. aa the grand climax of his career of violence, he has S'(uashe1 our lunon Pit. We use the possessive pronoun advisedly. It la our lemon pie, ours by Inheritance - lon, lingering inheritance; ours by possession; ours as the reward of mllnary skill and genius, ours by every right of law snd custom and affection, yea. and sovereignty. sover-eignty. And we do not amy oun In the personal editorial sense. We feel that we I speak for the entire American people, except ex-cept the so, washer, whose na turaltwi Hon papers should now bo subjected to scrutiny. scru-tiny. What American, what true American, Ameri-can, can stand covered before a real. home-maVle lemon pie? What American can alt before one without feeling nn emotion I hat some i mav call one thing and soma another, but which we choose to believe is patriotism? I And why not? Is not every lineament , symbolical of our country: its urual the fruit ful earth, nowhere else so fruit fill ; I Hs heart the golden harvest a billion i bushels, If you pleas its rover, the j fleecy, silver ClOUdj thai fle'k the eternal I blue of our aklos? Surely, to criticise 11 i.-i treason, and to condemn II Is a c-rlme ho strange, so unthinkable, that the dlo ! tlonarv provides no word for It. Only one who strikes without discrimination- men. parties stutcs, governments, Inst I tut lona. blng! -could have committed It. There can be no reason for It, fru" reason pre-i pre-i Hupposes l Ojislderat inn, but I here may be an explanation, perhaps a palliation, The attACk, Incidentally, Includes every! hi ng containing lemona Poaaflttly there is auon a t hi tig as hyperacidity of the Intellect 1 If so, nnd Mr. While la thus afflicted, as he seema to be, wo may forgive, hut. . alas! we an never forget. SI. IxjuIb aiobe-Democrat. |