The weekly north Iowa times. [volume] (McGregor, Iowa) 1857-1867, 1863-08-19
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| nave won the encomlum OF Lying sheets.
One would think that engaging in cditori,
life would not pervcrt an otherwise rcspec
able man and render him unsafe in matter
of veracity, but there arc some who
seem to regard the life editorially as pre-
eminenty, life libelous. There are "stra
tegic' movements in journalistic expe,ienc
which We admit to be acceptable to tn
patrons of partisan paper, but we canno
allow that even these are actually the bcs
for the principles which such papers advo
cate sti', less is 1t permissible TO publish
statements that are as grcurdlcss as tn
inventions CT Baron Munchausen. !
little diversion from fact for "the fun Of tn
thing" not to hurt any one hut to anus
all, can be excused on the score Of good
natured satire or irony, but an absolut
falsehood printed and adhered to, ccrtainl,
cannot be honorable, and we most solemn,
believe it is not profitable, except in invers
proportion. The advice of Percy to Glen
dover, Tell truth and shame the Devili'
could be given with frequency and will
business to many papers on either side
you cannot tsll on reading them whethe
you are getting information or getting sold
and if you repeat one Of their statement
it is like enough the nearer will pull his ey,
open to exhibit suspicion Of your green
ness. This ought not to be so. A maj
can as well be fair in newspaper argumcn
as in social intercourse with reighbo
and there is no use in FORGETTING characte
as an editor for the success of some offic,
hunter who, often, will use his position t
destroy you. Journalists do not properly
estimate the value OF private character OF
less slang would be handed out as copy.
We have been led to these remarks from
seeingi in the Chicago Journal, generally ,
fair paper, in the Milwaukee Sentinel and
in numerous other papers Of character
some actual falsehoods relative to the action
of the late Democratic Wisconsin Conven
ton. These papers have the ''inside track
in soldier circulation and the object seems
to b to build up an era of hate, to be fol.
lowed Of course by an effusion of blood
which will leave no man in this bread land
exempt from molestation. 1t is idle to
suppose that the Inauguration Of civil war
here will find its victims on one side only
Men are pretty much alike under the same
circumstances and they will not submit
to an illegal, presumptuous exercise Of pow
er. To attempt it may look very pretty to
him who for the time being is a government
pet or closely allied to the dominant party,
but it cannot win, and the sooner indiscreet
editors and politicians learn it the better
for the United States in its effort to restore
the country tooits wonted glory, and the
better also for individual neighborhoods
that are now, without respect to party, an
outbreaks Of sanguinary charac-
ter. But to the falsehood which induced
the penning Of these paragraphs; Repub-
lican newspaper now before us in allusion
to the Maine Democratic Convention says
Contrast this honorable course with the
dastardly and despicable conduct of the
convention which met at Madison on the
9Th inst. The latter had no words of
sympathy, none of thanks, none of con-
graduation for victories achieved or for
battles won No wonder such base ingrat-
ifs 40 c. ho co1diorc To mad
Now the paper from which the above is
clipped knew that the Wisconsin Conven.
ton adopted as part of its platform the
resolutions of the Milwaukee Mass Conven.
ton Of some weeks ago and it also knew
that the following was among them:
Resolued, That we are proud of the
gallantry and devotion of our fellow citi-
liens serving in the land and naval forces
of the United States, and svmpathizc deep
ly with all :heir sacrifices Of lie, health and
comfort. End as the war may, their place
in history is one Of glory-successful
whenever beyond the reach Of corrupt po-
lltical influences surrounding the federal
failing from no fault of
their own whenever within the reach Of
those influences, equally brave and patri-
otto in either fortune, they are the glorious
brothers of our blood, and will never make
good the brutal boast that, when they shall
have suppressed rebellion in the south,
they will turn their arms against their
brethren of the north. ..r. -s. q. .
If man tells you what you afterwards
are convinced is deliberate untruth, told
10 mislead you for the purpose of securing
profit to himself, would you put any conf.
ience in his word in future? We wouldn't.
The DRAFT-All persons are anxious