| Show MR MB BENNETT REPLIES TO GOULD IT IS THE OLD STORY OF FAUST AND HIR BARGAIN jay goulds personal pera enal attack on the proprietor of the herald embodied in an open 0 en letter and printed in the world woran yesterday morning was the talk of the town in the hotel lobbies the clubs the restaurants and in every place where men congregate opinions on the letter on the propriety and wisdom of ef making it public and on the situation generally were widely a numerously expressed everyl every b had bad something to say more or sensible and to the point the herat heral in reply to the attack will this morning print the following following editorial do ad 11 poor gould his debut abut as an april tool was a notable success A dealer in secondhand second hand haud reminiscences the whimpering victim of a newspaper a cable company and a woman he seeks to divert public attention from the main issue certain alleged and to evade that justice which he has every reason to fear thus do all traitors if their purgation did consist in words they are as innocent as grace itself it is the old story of faust and his bis bargain with mephistopheles all over again history repeating itself once more the dupe whom goethe has covered with immortal infamy sup posed himself invincible since he had the devil for a steadfast friend but the time came when his majesty claimed his bis own and then the name game was up the parallel has been perfect in every particular for twenty years and is likely to be equally perfect in ill the denouement goulds last weapon is the weapon of a coward lacking the moral courage to face the contempt of an out raged community he takes refuge in personal malignity drenched to the skin with flo ancial intrigue this speculative cula tive trickster stands dripping be fore the world and prates about the cardinal virtues 1 when the herald chooses to enter the lists it equips itself from the arsenal of honorable warfare we invade the sanctity of no mans home not a word has passed our 11 lips a about this mans private life when when he be c closes oses the door of his house a truce is instantly sounded when he enters the th e field again the war is renewed As an element of our business life he becomes public property and independent journalism is bound by its duty and obligations to the public to corn coin went on his methods to examine his transactions and to denounce them tham in whatever terms the occasion ocea sion may sug pest gest this we have done and this we propose to do gould the wrecker of railroads in which the peoples money is invested an archfiend arch fiend who clutches the securities of the country by the throat until we suffer the convulsions of a panie panic who shakes commercial confidence which but for of him would be as firm as gibraltar that man is more than a private citizen he be to is the enemy of our oar common welfare the despoiler of widows and orphans I 1 he has no right to complain of the abe universal detestation in which he is held he is the sole author of that retribution before which he now trembles the logic of life follows him and it is inexorable he to is neither neith tr persecuted ted not nor a victim he i I 1 awaits evenhanded even handed justice a te terrible ari e outlook there are ghosts in his path which would frighten sleep from the eyelids of any one who had bad the remnants of a conscience reign of terror well named black friday is not yet forgotten it was a devilish needless cat which brought business to a standstill and left in its track bankruptcies and ruins innumerable the story of erie shall not be repeated bat but as damning a tragedy as was ever written its prominent incidents the arrest of gould his bis compulsory restitution of about ten millions and the deposit of the plundered road la in the hands of a receiver then follows the procession sadon f ghostly accusers wabasha chica brought disgrace on our credit at home and abroad and texas exas pacific and the kansas pacific and ma manhattan and the missouri pacific it bas been ruin ruin everywhere and on the ruin he be has bas built a colossal colo sahl fortune so no living man has wrought such disaster or made so much money out of it friends and enemies alike have been deluded by his bis promises and it is related that some driven beyond the verge of despair by their poverty have sought release from his cruelty in suicide it is Mac Macbet beths bs hand band that gould looks at and he be trembles at what he sees the civil suits of the past have only teased bim they are nothing they involve the abe payment of money only but a criminal suit with the pos possibility sivility lity of finding himself behind behl the bars makes him writhe with fra fran tic fear and beat the air with impotent passion it he dare face facts let him bim do it but reminiscences bah they are the last resort of a whimpering knave E L andrews one of the attorneys who claims to xe represent present the kansas pacific yesterday sent out a long open letter to J jay a y G gould 0 ul din in answer to the paragraph r a gr op h referring to himself which mr r go gould a I 1 d put at the end of his bis letter to J G B ennett bennett he says sayo in effect that mr gould is trying to direct attention from the real issue by going into personal attacks on his opponents fie ends as follows 66 proceed with your defamation of e cabinet abinet officers editors of great journals and attorneys the result will show that you cannot escape by those methods ot 06 defense to a criminal charge 11 the world |
