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Show ARCHBISHOP IRELAND AND THE PRESS Archbishop Ireland s ndlress to the school teachers In Minneapolis was no doubt able appropriate an 1 Instructive Hut the ortlon of It that was carried In the news if the dav relate I nllo gcther to the management of nevvspa pers Mr Iieland contenled manfully for the hnneat presentation of the news for the avol lance of sensallnnnllsm an t espetlalls for the elimination nf bias In the piesentntlon nf news He held up two noteworth instnnces as exnmplos of whit newspapers ahoul I avoid In their news service tho first case being that of a newspaper which Instructed Its correspondent In 1 urate to 'wire all Hint mnl es for wnr noth Ing tint tends to prevent or lelas It and another case where It vv is leport ed In the ( athollc press that the pub lie school teachers In the I'hlllrplnes were proaelstlng on l elisions lines al verse to the Interests mil claims of the Catholic church whereas the fact is that the persons accused were not ministers anl that theli own gool sense as well as the strict rules of the (avsrnmeni conllnei i m strictly to secular in liters ' In the first Inst inc ven there can be no two opinion of t ,e mis hlevnus dishonest which actuated the pel son who was responsible for the Instructions Instruc-tions Riven to the 1 uropean correspond ont flu motive ns well as the Instructions Instruc-tions themselves cannot he too stiong-lyronlemnej stiong-lyronlemnej I ortunalels such t case Is and must necessarily be rare for what newspaters ns a rule want from coriespondnnts Is tin news unl If a stor Is not t-ue It Isn t news Nelthei do curio'qien lents have the llberi to tinge lhcii news oi give it u bi is of un sort but Ihe must give the futs ns the) aie and if they ure allowed to explain unu mmeiit that Is a set on dnr inattei and u ears as expltna Hon und lumment not ns news but tho news Is the tiiilu thing clear mil cold without twisting or terverstoii nf un kind The second case may have been different dif-ferent nnd Is exilalt utile with perfect lunest) on the par' ot the nevvspneiii tint na have I em Imposed upon by the lepcrt or illrged facts They very llkel) re died Hie It formation thiy used in such wise that they gave It credit The did not originate It, but I received the statement from others And right there Is one of the very hardest hard-est t liases of newspaper work to keep from being Imrosed upon by ere lulous folk who seem to take delight In spreading spread-ing rumors they hear, ery often In dls-torted dls-torted form, and by natural-born liars oi those who have taken on such train-Ing train-Ing and facility In I) Ing thnt the art comes as second nature to them II Is one of the great anxieties ot a news-' news-' i nper ofllce to guard against this sort lot Imposition anl sometimes It wins In spite of all precaution The story I comes in such plausible nn I detailed I firm and Is affirmed so earnestly anl I positive! (and perhaps so late that nny verification Is Impossible) that It seems sinfull ungracious to refuse to nccept It In rood fnlth and ct that Is pre-lel pre-lel the thing that commonly turns nut to be Ither vvlioll false or so perverted per-verted as to give a mlsernhl vviong Idea of the tiuth Of course It Is Hi" newspaper that In such a case Is the butt of the pojular Inllgnatlon Inevl-tarly Inevl-tarly so it Is the newspaper that has lie I but the papei feels that It v as not to Mime thnt Its Intentions were fair and honest and lhat It reall has more cause to complain than any-bod any-bod It Is probnbly Just enough to hold the newspapers to nccount for the truth of what they print Hut until the easing of the I'salmlst who sail In his haste All men are liars his been Itself proved a He, newspapers will continue con-tinue to bo liable to be Imposed upon and to be called Hare when they nre merel victims If David had been conductor con-ductor a newspaper the salng woull not need to have been hast It coutl have been put as a well-matured conviction con-viction As a general proposition It can be said tint the reason why lies are found In newspapers Is that people peo-ple tell lies to the newspapers |