The semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1882-1886, 1885-02-25
THE PROOF.

The MINER charged and still
charges that the Inter Ao~ntas" mas
repeatedly, wilfully and naliciously
misrepresented the %utterances OF this
journal. The Inter Mountain enters
q denial to the charge and says: I'm
quoting the utterances of our cosem-
porary we are always careful to tran
scribe bis words, etc." The other
day the Inter Mountain charged that
the MINER "insisted restriction (of
gameling) should first be tried before
extinguishment be entered upon."
We pronounced the charge false and
challenged the Inter Mountain to
point to the paragraph in the MINER
containing the sentence. The Inter
Mountain editor had not the honesty
to confess he was mistaken and pre-
served silence.
Again in it's issue of the I'D instant
the Inter Mountain says: "A..furious
attack on Rev. MI. Blackiston, for
some structures he passed on the
MINER, wherein he 1.-THE preacher)
IVA charged with a fondness for
burning heretic,, drowning witches
and burning Quakers, ETC." The i'm
preston meant to be, and which is
conveyed by the above Is. that the
MINER charged the Rev. Blackiston
with = fondness for burning here
tics, drowning witches, etc." The
MINER made no charge Of the kind
and the editor of the Inter Mountain
knew 1t when he penned the above.
Here is what the MINER did say,
and no one disposed to quote a
contemporary fairly could make a
charge of the above nature out Of the
language used. After noting Mr..
Blackstone clerical intolerance in
denouncing a journal for admitting
to its colu INNS a communication c n
tanning opinions at variance with
his own, we said:
IF we may be permitted to criti-
else in turn, we would say that the
Rev. Mr.. Blackist0n was born sew
eral centuries too late, or that be Is
now living in the wrong country.
If his remarks on last sunday are
correctly reported to US, he (the Rev.
Blackiston) would possibly have
found more c0ngenial employment
In lighting the fires which consumed
the so-called heretics of old, or in
drowning the witches or banishing
the Quakers who so sorely troubled
the Puritan Fathers a couple of hun
dred years ago, than in filling q pull
pit in this enlightened, progressive
age. Or possibly u Reverend
friend would find the suppression of
newspapers in autocratic Russia
more in harmony with his tastes and
inclinations than in teaching the
charitable precepts of his Master, or
in expOunding the liberal theories of
the more advanced thinkers of his
church."
And still again. The New North
West severely criticized the Rev.
Blackiston for his attack upon the
MINER in his pulpit, and closed the
paragraph by saying: 1--WE trust the
attitude of Rev. Blackiston has not
been correctly reported" The Inter
Mountain reproduced the New North
West article, placed over it the cap
ton, Lying Authority" and then
AYERS that "Mr. Blackiston was not
correctly reported in the columns of
the MINER" While the fact is, Mr..
Blackiston himself does not deny he
criticised and condemned the MINER
for publishing the communication of
"Justice" on the gambling question.
Upon this information the MINER
criticised the course of the Reverend
gentleman in turn. It was a matter
in which the Inter Mountain was not
upon to interfere, much less
to misrepre sent the MINER 30 coarse
~ and brutally as it did. We could
multiply instances upon instances
In which the Inter Mountain has
and misrepresented. the
utterances of this journal. We have
put up with it until patience has
ceased to be a virtue, ard hereafter
the editor of the Inter Mountain must
quote US fairly and honestly OF SUBJ
nit to be denounced as a liar,