| Show AN EVIL THAT SHOULD HOULD BE ABATED As we WB suggested when the news first arrived here of the sensational statements credited to general dement the dispatch fiend is responsible for much of the nonsense that has appeared in the papers in regard to alleged land fraud slin utah gun gen demerits cements De ments denial however appears a little too sweep ing it is hardly to be supposed that the enterprising reporter has manufactured the entire fabric of the stories riessen sent tover over the wires we believe dement has given a few threads into the hands of some ing ingenious e alous interviewer who has colored them with his own dye and woven them into the glar iria garment of falsehood which has been exhibited to the country the tory story has served one purpose thou though it has tended tp to show the mann manner eru in which certain journals that praised dement when he uttered sen bences which could be construed into hostility against the mormons cormons Mor mons turned round and abused him with vehement scurrility when he was supposed to have said raid something severe about the gentiles 11 the truth or falsehood of his words cut no figure in either case he was s v fine fel I 1 low with a broad grasp of the situa i tion in one case and a no sorry orry ass and kl impractical egotist 1 in the others other I 1 simply because in tue latter case lit he did I 1 not confine his bis ebullitions of spleen to the mormons cormons Mor mons 1 I the ordinary interview is frequently little but the imaginings ot a versatile bohemian it is 18 an ua unreliable reliable but taking piece of journalistic enterprise it seldom conveys the ideas of the victim who is interviewed and scarcely ever presents i them in their naked originality being dressed up to suit euit the reporter without regard to tile the feelings or wishes of th the speaker it is one of the modes of reckless lying that is common to many MADY newspapers and it ought to be checked by the power of the law it should be made a criminal offense to misrepresent any person lu in the way in which gen dement is said to have been injured through the public prints A reporter who will put words word sinto into a wants mans mouth that he never uttered and have them spread abroad to make him appear either a knave or a fool in the eyes of the world ought to be severely punished ed these frequent deceptions that abc e practiced under the name of interviews interview are a disgrace to journalism and it is time something should be done clone to protect public men from being scandalized in this way and the being imposed upon still more aul despicable are the libels which watch unprincipled papers publish with impunity such as those about joseph W mcmurrin appeared inthe in the tribune and democrat tf of this city they are all the more cowardly and contemptible because the writers think they are in no danger of saying what they please about a man in his situation we refer to his case merely as a sample cleof of the personal scandals ls in which some sheets indulge andio and to show the necessity of f a remedy against the evil the bogus interviewer and the libel lous reporter are both public nuisances and the sooner they are abated the better it will be lor for respectable journalism and d a deceived and suffering public |
