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Show ! THE INSULTING SAN FRANCISCO CALL. Cub Reporters Not So Much to Blame as Asinine j Humorists. The Leader, tvui .Francisco. The Call rejoices in the possesion of a pair of j prize idiots. Cue is a cub reporter whose name we i are not privileged to know. The other is an alleged al-leged humorist who answers to the appellation of Waterhouse. Why it is not VVaterhead or Bug-I Bug-I house is one of those things which no man can understand. '.I he cub reporter-described the ceremonies at the Cathedral . on the Feast ot' the Assumption. We are informed in the isue of August lGtlt that "at t-olcuui Benediction the Archbishop besprinkled the altars and blessed the holy rituals with in-cer.se.'' in-cer.se.'' Besprinkling the altars at solemn Benediction I is certainly a novel ceremony. It is unknown in Catholic liturgy. Only the rubricist of the Call j could detect the Archbishop in such a performance. perform-ance. We are quite sure His Grace knew nothing about it, unless he has experienced the jov of reading read-ing the Call. But "blessing the holy rituals with incense" surpasses that-other 'weird effort of the reporter's fancy. It is unintelligible, impossible and unimaginable. unim-aginable. It is the conception of a simpleton or the delusion of a pipe-dream. It means as much as if the reporter had written that a policeman had arrested the sidewalk for vagrancy. lie-ports of this kind are merely foolish. They cannot be called malicious. But it is different with the humor of Waterhead. This simian drools in terse. In the iS3ue of August 17th he offers unpardonable un-pardonable insult to all men of Irish blood. There can be no doubt that he intended the affront to the Irish readers of the Call. In an impossible brogue Bughouse writes of an, Irish wake. Of course everybody gets drunk on "could tay." It would not be an Irish wake otherwise. other-wise. At last the corpse Vomes to life in order to get drunk, too. "And thin he reached a trimbling hand unto the tea- j cup bowl; "Tis strange,' says he. 'ye never thought to irrigate me sowl." We found poor Paddy's corpse next day rest to his sowl, I say: The bottle at his smiling lips held not a drop of tay." We beg our readers' pardon for quoting this vile stuff. We give these lines merely as a sample of the villainous doggerel which Irish subscribers to the Call may expect to find any morning in their paper. - . ' - Waterhouse is a hoodlum who will write anything any-thing for pay. He is of the same type as the infamous in-famous Brininstool who, has been employed' by Hearst and Otis to make a mockery of their Irish subscribers. Decent men cannot deal with Water-house Water-house and Brininstool. It , is the owners "and managers man-agers of the papers that must be held responsible for this abuse. The Irish will get" vilification' from the papers if they stand it. It is in their own power to stop it in a day. The owners of. the papers want the money of the Irish. . In this there is no difference between them. They get money from advertisers and subscribers. If their Irish advertisers and subscribers notify them that they will not meekly bear slander or contumely, the papers will instantly become respectful and. their paid writers will at least pretend that they have the manners of gentlemen. gen-tlemen. : |