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    August 20 , 187a] THE TOM AH A WK. 67

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    LITERAHY MURDER ; THE FJiEXCJf EMPEROR o...

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    Last week we had to direct attention to ...

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    TRUE BENEVOLENCE,

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    To the Editor of the Tomahawk. Select Si...

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    contemporary Time is Money , to erec and...

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    August 20 , 187a] The Tom Ah A Wk. 67

    August 20 , 187 a ] THE TOM AH A WK . 67

    Literahy Murder ; The Fjiexcjf Emperor O...

    LITERAHY MURDER ; THE FJiEXCJf EMPEROR AND , ENGLISlf ANONYMOUS JOURNALISM .

    Last Week We Had To Direct Attention To ...

    Last week we had to direct attention to the brutal onset made by Impe a rial certain , and portion point out of the the unfeeling British press rowdy against ism which the insp Prince ired it . We have now to go a step further . Since our last article whic August fallen was penned h , for before may ever Imperial dawn . these It on lines is , France a however great find day has their , still for received way the possible into name a print terrible of that , Napoleon she the blow may 15 , under th , have and of let let that the the the day day Eagle go go which which may once way wav again it it will will , break all all Frenchmen Frenchmen through to to to vic whom whom tory . Hut the the

    to Emp settle ire and with its assoc this country iations . arc The dear , , audacious will have a , heavy , , unbridled reckoning , and Second vulgar abuse Empire which by an has influential been heaped portion upon of the the founder British of press the , that ought the not frenzy by them with to which be forgotten certain . of We our will journal undert s have ake clawed to say parallel vulture-like in the on history to the of fallen literary Empe murder ror , , ancient our ally or , modern has no . The whole subject is sickening and humiliating . It is a scandal

    among amonir honest honest than men men the . . celebrated What What can can Times have have been been leader more more on the diabolically diabolicall VVoirth y ungenerous disaster Such an , article working at up such as it a did crisis to the becomes closing almost word a ' * abdicate matter for ? " have diplomatic heard protes the , last t , and of we this very and , much all the doubt other if this coward country lback will parlour scribbling that has disgraced it daily since the y war broke Frenchmen out . may Even possibly if the Emperor be less patient survive . to It forgive is true that and all forget the ,

    with better regret read and at French better bred humiliation classes in ; but England the mass have , looked the great on the middle beg -muddle inning - this headed spirit bulk has , have been coarsel manifest y rej . oiced An E at nglish it . From ship was at once fired that at b an y an outrage ironclad had in the been Baltic committed . The papers by the announced French . Eng The lishmen wish was jumped father at to the the occasion thought , , and and so deliberatel these honourable y told the He . Later on , it transpired that it was a Prussian and not a

    more French was ironclad said upon that the had subject committed . So " the has outrage it been , " but throug nothing hout . In cases where there has been no occasion for falsehood , slander quote and scurrility a bit of have the sort been of used disgraceful to the fullest stuff that extent has . been But forced let us journal into The the Dail since y face News the of war Englishmen has commenced behaved by itself , their and as as anonymous badl it boasts y as any that instructors Eng it is lish . a what " high " high class class " Liberal " Liberalism m paper trm , let can us produce look to vrv it Let for us a take specimen at random m « m of

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    massacre him Emperor in Paris Napoleon of the , has peop energy , or le of and Paris courage . The Second enough Emp to ire perpetrate represents succumb a s home easily . enough The Empress to a foreign Regent foe , , but who it proclaimed dies hard and the savagel other y day at that to surround she would herself be found in the first Tuileries at the post with of the danger troops , is which not afraid are wanted an at unarmed the frontiers crowd , . and If an to order invasion charges of Germany of Cuirassiers needs upon something more than the genius of a conspirator and a charlatan

    to to tion be be too successful successful eagerly , , calling a a massacre massacre for arms in in the the to streets streets defend of ot their Pari . Paris s country of of a a popula popula is as --easy in August , 1870 , as in & c December & c & c , . 1851 . " short Now , ought , can insulting anything , inflammatory be more , , contemptible twaddle of th this an kind this ? to be In thing allowed is so to patentl find its y overdone way into that print it ? destroys One may itself argue . The that animus the

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    is Eng too lishman ugly , and is repels a newspaper . Unfortunatel -reading y , animal this if no and t the he case is also . The an Thousands unthinking if it were , unanswerabl , therefore and , therefore , of e , and him , , begin an take easil in to this y spread -to blazing -be- , direct the balderdash « poi d son animal right as . and left . The influence of the Press is great in this fashion , shape and woe as to this the . country But to when conclude " hi . gh It -class may " be writing , as we takes have such said above Emperor —¦¦ jw , that > mm by have avaw the hour realised ww these ^ a one lines alternat ¦ are ive before of his the heroic 1 public Ffl reply the

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    child the ^ r » w Emperor — in « v ^ vw the «• ^ rmm , midst this w * v sneering ^ of v ^^ ^ all mm ^ m . this * at miserable his wv ^ p wife >> vvv ^ , this beatification ^ vV * c rowing > A ww ** ^ 9 , 9 «>« over of w % * ^ those ¦• vbv his ^^ s of representatives all this suppression of high of treason facts , , the this French distortion Left— of in truth the midst , this like apotheosis to ask of , and Kng get lish an honour answer and , to English one question manliness : What , we French should ruler has for the last five hundred years worked as hard for prosperity France , and as raised Louis her Napoleon to such ? a If pinnacle Prussia has of greatness brought ruin and

    much upon his consideration country and for his the cause unpatriotic it is because huxtering he has of his shown political too ago opponents he was . not His repared one great to blunder crush the has Teutonic been that monster three which years the Frankenstein p of radical Europe has raised to its own destruction .

    True Benevolence,

    TRUE BENEVOLENCE ,

    To The Editor Of The Tomahawk. Select Si...

    To the Editor of the Tomahawk . Select Sir , — Committee A certain on Mr . Poor Smollett Law has ( Scotland given ) evidence , in which before he says the that there is not " the same amount of kindness of feeling toadverts wards the to poor the that decay prevailed of that in infamous his younger system days once . " in He vogue then with always rich hanging country about gentlemen their backdoors of keeping , to a number whom doles of pensioners of meat

    foolish and something bread kindness in were return is dail becoming is y given a mistake . extinct I rejoice , a . great To to g mistake ive hear without that , Sir all . getting I such am thankful to say , Sir , that , now-a-days , we do understand what fundamental " charity" really maxim means of . true We respectability are beginning , which to comprehend is that you the must invest never it get in less Shares than or five in Benevolence per cent , for . your money , whether you I am on the Board of Management of no less than ten

    imget kind portant less . Charities than five , per and cent I am , for happy my money to say , that either in in no coin case or do in I Allow me , Sir , to express a hope that the Christian religion that has not requisition existed for which some was eighteen addressed hundred to a certai years n in young "ain . man If in Judaea , viz ., " to go and sell all he had and to give to the hope poor" none were of addressed us would to hesitate any of to us answer Christians in the now affirmative -a-days , I

    with the utmost readiness , provided , of course , that five per cent , was guaranteed I remain . Sirobedient servant , , your " A Just , Man . " Phylactery Lodge , July 29 .

    Contemporary Time Is Money , To Erec And...

    contemporary Time is Money , to erec and t a V hundred ice Versd new . —It Wesleyan is intended Chapels , says in a London , and with this view , a subscription will be set on foot time at once . . Even The supposing Wesleyans them are quite to be right the not richest to lose sect a mom in ent the ' s metropolis perfect . , their pious resolve must take half a century to

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  • Tomahawk (1867-1870), Aug. 20, 1870, page 67, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/t/issues/ttw_20081870/page/5/