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Show "THEY SAY." Of all the cowardly and diabolical deceptions in the language "they say" is notoriouslv Ihe first. It is tho catapult of the slandered. Some liar maligns his npjghb4).y31ilda.:8ii.l.fcars,',tliat-hew ill-stand ill-stand alone; he .resorl.-. to ihe base trick of pluraliz-ing pluraliz-ing his vicious self, and so he outs with "they say." "They" is often only one. and if more than one it is because the wish of the liar was father tn his thought; he desires the multitude in order to lose himself therein and thus escape the pernicious consequences con-sequences of defamation. It is the old trick of the cuttlefisli that muddies the whole .stream so that its own ugliness will not be noted. Xo man of honor uses "they say." lie gives his proper authority, if need be, and floes not hedge behind the indefinite. Truth always deals in directness. direct-ness. The sneak it is who tries to saddle upon ihe public what his own coarse, crude and malicious mind conjured. Oh, the misery of if all ! The murderer mur-derer of character considers that he is adding a cubit to bis own character in subtracting from the name of his follow. This is a wretched contrivance, marked with ignorance most gross, and sin thai well nigh touches insanity. Catholic Union and Times. |