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Show A PECULIAR CONSPIRACY. The London Times is the victim of a peculiar conspiracy, which, in its operations, illustrates anew that it is the impossible that happens. For it would seem to be impossible, in any well regulated newspaper office, that indecent expressions could be repeatedly smuggled into articles and the author not discovered. The London Times claims to have the best supervision of any newspaper, the best proof reading, the best of everything. Yet it is said "its managers look at the issue every morning with fear and trembling," lest they find in some prominent place expressions that no newspaper tolerates. The annoyance began with what is described as a "horribly indecent" interpolation in a speech by Sir William V. Harcourt. Three repetitions have occurred, each "quite as scandalous," and yet the perpetrator of the outrages is undetected. It seems incredible that malicious trickery of this kind should be carried on without knowledge of responsible persons. |
