| Show power or THE PRESS this is power can only be estimated by the amount of metal in the springs of action it is not as the engine of the locomotive computed by horsepower horse harse power powen because the press is a great motive moral power capable of making the flattest lie round quare square or oblong as may be desired of blowing up a falsehood into the formidable proportions r 0 f llie lite and truth as is the man in t the irb play of the tire magic pills who is mashed flat by a millstone the power of the press can never be computed with figures until the circle is ts squared and the fort forty seventh problem of emms solved like ilke the of the sphinx thus we may i say ay the press can do so much for so birtch but how much more it can do for more another age than this musli mus determine thus we have known the weight of five hundred in silver counted out on the beam end of leverage so weigh down the moral influence on the other side that certain parties receiving the meal metal on the turn torn have declared their past life hypocrisy and forthwith gone over as a knave among knaves 1 in other instances 2 we have known the same motive power acting on the springs of theli the press preas tesS as to make a erMy inconsistent demagogue labe e the only 9 pure pore ure are upright and perfect man pally man ulin by y virtue of virtue y ell eil entitled titled to pub public ile lie confidence handy bandy it can transform a small thief into a great speculator in stocks what is ft it that the press cannot do if it will it can prove to the entire satisfaction of any mode raulY bobcat man that when brown said at such and such a time that he did not mean lea iea it when ha hebald mittit it first and secondly that he di did pot not say if ir 11 II it can prove tha such and buce facts admitted to be facts are no facts the argument may run logically thus thas no cal cai cat i hath two tails every cat hath one tail more than no cat two added to one is equalito equal io to three thiis thus according to press logic every levery cat hath three tails talib clutes dates wedge power and the lever of arch cannot be used as comparatives to five give glye any adequate ide idea of the power of the press with metallic weight it has often pressed a agoure head onward to the ilia chair of state virtue has been made vice and vice clothed in such of virtue that the devil himself ho is represented as having an all penetrating eye has not been able to recognize its own |
