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ture, but whom the wantons of the Smart Set describe
as the "bourgeoisie."
  In separating the sheep from the goats, and properly
ticketing the goats, shall one be accused of blasphemy

                         III
  We produce a varied assortment of editorial expres-
sions upon this general subject, with particular refer-
ence to some observations which lately appeared in these
columns. They are characteristic. The American
newspaper is nothing if not paradoxical. As usual, we
find ourselves accused by some without discrimination
and by others dismissed with vapid ebullitions of con-
tempt. In the ethics of modern journalism few things
are so touching as the disdain of the superior being who
affects indifference when he cannot come to time, and
marks his lack of sincere feeling and his incapacity to
see and tell the truth, by the pretense of enlightened
deliberation.
  "We have no defence to make," says one, and then
goes on defending. "No class has a monopoly of good,
or bad, qualities," says another, and, deprecating our
"heat" and "undue excitement," proceeds to concede
all we have claimed. Still another works in Burke's
aphorism, "You cannot indict a whole people," as if
we had, or as if these unclean birds were "a whole
people." Our article "must receive considerable mod-
ification," declares a critic posing as a jurist, "before
persons who hold fact higher than fancy can be ad-
vised to read it," the whole of the writing thus dis-
credited reprinted elsewhere in the same paper to
disprove the assertion and invite perusal. A certain
Cholly Knickerbocker actually pretends to give in re-
buttal a list of ladies and gentlemen, persons of the
very highest character and standing, leading noble and
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