Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1873-09-18
Rev. MIR. Murray ON Lying.

The Rev. Mr.. Murray moved his pull
pit into the C0ngregati0ndHst Office last
week, and addressed discourse to liars
generally and untruthful editors in par
ticular. 1t seems that Mr.. Murray has
been somewhat annoyed by the reports
CT his taking the life of the gentle deer
in the Adirondacks with considerable
freedom, a charge he sharply denies.
The following is the conclusion of the
reverend gentleman's little sermon:
According to his custom, the writer of
this article, at the commencement of his
annual vacation, started, with compa-
ny of personal friends belonging to his
church, for the Adirondacks. With
them, he found rest, health and happi-
ness in the woods, and returned strength
ened for work and the duties of life
Within week after his return to his la
bors, he learned through the newspapers,
that he had been ''slaughtering deer"
during his vacation. Some reports put
the number at a dozen, others as high as
twenty. The Turf, FTsld and farm
which, being an agricultural paper,
should have been truthful-chose the lie
as the theme of an editorial article, and
proceeded to read me lesson on the
''guilt and shame of killing deer out of
season." and hoped that the full penalty
against me. Then the Springfield Re
publican, gave me the benefit of an edi-
torial in its most approved style, which
is known to be invariably mild and guar
ded. Next, a paper called the Proyi-
dence Journal advertised me in savage
terms as "a murderer of innocent
deer" ct cetera. Now the perfection
of this Illustration as specimen of
newspaper lying will be seen in this,
that the writer of this article 7aege7 shot
a deer this seds0aa-more than this, as all
my guides. and those who have consort-
ed in the woods with me know, for sew
eral years l have never shot deer, I'M
less compelled to do so by actual lack of
needed food in camp. Now, we do not
know who started this Newspaper lie
but we do know, and the readers know,
who have given it circulation, and that,
too, when the slightest effort on their
part could have preserved them from the
shame and guilt of purposely circulat-
ing falsehood. 4
The command of the Apostle is ellie
not at all !; and we are told in this book
who is the father of lies. To obey the
injunction, and avoid all alliance with
this source of lying, is my exhortation
to all, especially newspaper editors"
Evidently the Globe man had been
reading the above sermon, when he
wrote the subjoined extract, published
in that paper on Tuesday, but chatting
still under his failure to palm off an old
speech of Mr. Murray's, as his speech at
our fair, he seems to have got things
slightly mixed Read the lucid item re-
ferred to, and notice how characteristic
cally he quotes:
''Rev. Mr.. Murray has, evidently,
been reading the efforts of morning
newspaper to creep out of small hole, /
its gratuitous advertising of the enter
prise of the Globe, and its frantic efforts
to spell correct ''e-x-t-r-a-c-t-s," as he
Murray ''thc amount of lying
done in this country, to-day, is some
thing so stupendous as to astound Satan
himself" and advises that such man
ayers should obey the injunction of the
Apostle, Lie not at all. y aa.85n a no'I
We should advise our contemporary, to
appropriate Mr.. Murray's closing para f
graph in full. 1t seems to hit their case.