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Show Newspaper Veracity Because of the general veracity of newspaper material people generally gener-ally believe all they read, even in our Emery county sheet, and for this reason we are going to make a clean breast of things and say that some of the things we write are not true. What a shame; somebody said the other day that onions were good for the cramp, because the newspaper said so! The reason we do not always tell the truth is not because our dear editor is not bright but because he gets his news items from correspondents correspon-dents and friends in other towns and being be-ing mortal they give their version of an article, and the editor being made of clay also, takes for granted what they write. Then some poor fellow who feels that he has been offended, because the paper said that his chickens were eating somebody's gooseberries, demands de-mands an explanation of the editor. The editor is going to be kidnapped in one town if he ever goes there and in another town he is going to be hanged. The editor lies awake nights and groans under the oppression, while the world goes around. A Kansas editor hits the thing about right: "Men make statements and can deny them; the preacher can say things in the pulpit and back up, and the politician can say things and give the reporter the lie, but with the newspaper writer it is different. 1'he record is there and for that reason, if no other, he is compelled com-pelled to be careful, and while he may not "tell the whole truth," he usually tells "nothing but the truth," and God pity the men and women of a community in which the newspaper tells the whole truth, and if the reporter in such a case is not. an object of God's pity he would be an object for the undertaker." |