Show SILLY SENSATION MONGERS Surely the makers of accusation against officers of the navy in the matter of the submarine boats should be ashaI ashamed of themselves Not ot one specification of their charges has b been en sustained The whole record is a succession succession suc sue cession of failures to establish If It things had been in the scandalous c condition asserted by Congressman Lilley's informants correction would h have ve been necessary and right And Andin Andin in such case correction would have been made malle But the evidence does not bear out the charges and every opportunity to get the evidence has been afforded from the beginning There is a certain type of man mati a little UlUe worse than the muck raker and that is he who declares there Is mud mull to lake rake when there is none He has hasa a habit of or making as much noise as possible about it declaring from the housetops that his neighbors neighbor's yard ard is simply reeking with the possible muck He has everyone c amazed and the of his declarations and the loudness of them convince The public com come to conclude con conS elude clude there must be some truth where there Is th so much assertion Which is tho the height of the ambition of the muck maker a maker a very much more despicable character than Is the muCK muc rak raker r. r This seems to have hae been a case caso of that kind Thero There was vas a natural rivalry rI between the companies competing com corn for the governments government's orders They paid money to men pretending to be newspaper correspondents But the scandal does not at all aU attach to any naval nor any officer nor norto norto norto to any newspaper This Investigation has cost money and has proved nothing except the dolight dolight dolight do- do light a certain class of man takes In InI falsely asserting improper things I I exist |