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Show JlbHONLST JOURNALISM; . tYhen a journal tells an abstract truth in a way f; gtve the public a false impression, that is dishonest dis-honest journalism. When a journal, for instance, tells that city officials have spent in four months 'much more than a former set of officials spent in ifcorregponding- months the previous year, and so Jvcrds the stafement as to "convey the belief that the pi crease is,due to extravagance, knowing that to be atrue, that is not only dishonest, but it reveals in widition the instincts of an assassin. N ' - When a journal for months hounds certain Jn-jtrtuflons Jn-jtrtuflons or a city that pay much revenue, demand- IvSf that they be abolished, and then when they are iboKshed jeers ;the official! because of a falling off la Terenue, and seeks to convey the impression that the falling off is due to negligence or incompetency ptra. the part of officials, that is not only dishonest, but all the instincts of both the assassin and coward 'rzre revealed. v . ' ' , ; ' The last city administration of this city not only pejnt all the money in the treasury, but contracted ior hundreds of thousands of dollars of w ork to be uione by the present administration. Moreover, it Geft the feitnation. with the farmers of the valley, in ranch, a plight that to obtain the water to turn into Khe conduit when it is finished the water which it paid it had purchased and paid for a fuKher ex-bendftnre ex-bendftnre of tens of thousands more moneyis im- . To evade those; facts tond to come forward now and ieer that monev is being expended, as though jTasted, is something so cowardly and base that it is indescribable, for it shows that a certain portion of toe PK of 41118 cify is controlled by men too base birth, too boorish of training to realize that there ' Ce depths of baseness which the ordinary assassin fluid coward and thief would recoil before. , t To read one of the editorials of the Sews of last I year inveighing against gambling dens and dens of m-fame, and, now that they are abated, to read its 'eeMtZai there is a fearful falling off of revenue Wr present officials, and at the same time to re-iraemlK re-iraemlK that the News is a "religious" organ, has a blrect tendency to make the average sinner believe Sat religion itself is only picked up by grafters to fmll the public and minister to the desires of the fcrafters. And that kind of journalism is as imbecile as it lis dishonest, for the facts are easily obtained, and when the truthful showing is madepthe people will tfeee at a glance that the shyster' journals have sini-?jly sini-?jly been trying to make the public believe a string jjof falsehoods, for the double purpose of casting dis-fcredit dis-fcredit on the present officials, and to cover up the Miirfionesty, the falsehoods and the utter imbecility Hof the last administration. x |