Show NO NEED FOR IT IT may be appropriately asked whether it is the right thing for a public journal to do to keep on making repeated claims of obtaining and publishing first and exclusive information upon popular subjects especially when in not a few instances such assertions are manifestly erroneous when evidence of enterprise exists the publication of the matter in question ahead of any otherness other newspaper appears to us to furnish all the proof necessary by letting that suffice and thus giving the public credit for ability to perceive the fact of precedence in furnishing it with fresh rn information formation mistakes liable to occur in any newspaper office are avoided and injustice batice obviated AS an instance among many others that could be cited in point we observe a claim made by a morning that it several days ago published exclusive information to the effect that secretary windom had decided that mexican lead ores could come ju in free of duty this was a mistake Qs 1 NEWS received a special from froin TW C michels washington D 6 thursday oct giving the ii formation the dispatch coa jw sj aisted of but a few words and ite 29 f t I 1 erport and appropriate com t speared in the ashue of this joir al of that date A representative of f the NEWS also coner sed with leading utah men interested in lead mining on the subject their views were given voice la in these columns the rest of the local papers published the fact of the decision next day friday october it is rather a small matter for this journal to notice but the excuse for ft J adverting to it now is that the mat mak ter complained of is as frequent as it is ie unnecessary I 1 |