Show TOO MUCH SE SENSATION S. District Attorney ney Jerome is right In hl ils s condemnation of the lie sensational writers who live lve by rJ digging up scandals al for fOI the he sole sake rake of or parading the unsavory un un- un- un savory savel messes before the public NY No o dou doubt t much good has been done by IW Lincoln St Stiffens and David Graham Grham philp Phillips The They have found round a or of f la hRIC lawlessness which could not bo bu corrected until public sentiment had been icon aroused rou cd antI and In a n demand de tie- e- e marll mand malid for reform Minneapolis was vas robber rIdden until the first o of the Shame of ut the Cities CItes articles was sas given to the world Since Ince then hell man many services have been rendered But the timIng thins can be he carried too far fai 11 Mr Phillips Philips gives an au lu illustration of the he intemperate lengths to lo which vituperation rn- rn Uon tion ton always goes when hen he tells of The Treason of the Senate Senat in a recent number lumber of the Cosmopolitan maga magu- zine zinc He lie Ic fills his hi pages paSCH with wih the thc mos most extravagant statements statement which If true would make snake criminal convictions e easy y and a u Iri prison ol sentence would swiftly settle the whole dl 11 problem And Anti no one P pays pay any al attention at- at to lo him Doubtless there Is sometimes a neot for COl the publication of oC municipal evils c But limit he thing Is so easily I to lo harmful extremes And the Iho the fatuous district attorney Is right In n resenting the lie latest effort at Inflaming th the pub pub- lc lie when the cause did not warrant In Ill another direction the lie thing Is ob ob- 11 it I hurts hurtA the Iho lie place shown show as the homo home of or moral and amid pestilence Utah I In is an example o othis or of orthis this unintended r result It I has hns been s so common commonly held up before the lie world a aa as asU a U state stale of or tn treason a on anti and lawlessness thaUs that tha thatIs Us its Is advancement all Is 19 greatly greally retarded ed And tho tue reason Is bad bud because Ih the charges al are unfounded It I Is a serious seri serl- ous thing to allege offenses against your om homo home It I Is bad enogh for fOI pro pro- scandal hunters to go so about abou the lie country In iii their unpleasant ant scare seat eli for fOI material with wih which to earn ear salaries It I Is Inexcusable when residents resi- resi dents louts of a state or city curse curso their fel fellow fel- fel low how men with rabid charges portell b by substantial proof Yer Very likely thc lie wave of alleged allege revelation rc has passed ed and und a sane satier habit will wi follow folo Criminal ions lons without heralding hei the tho details t to the Iho world olli will wi be bc more mOle effectIve I In securing reform And If there is warrant war war- rant for the rank stories ics of or the tho Steffens Ste- Ste Steens Stef Stef- tens fens ens and Phillips stripe theme thele Is cel o of conviction |