St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1886-09-05
WASTED AMMUNITION.

While there can be no sort of justification
for mendacltY, there are occasional circum-
stances under which it can be excused or
overlooked. If good is to come of telling a
falSehoOd. there can be some palliatiOn of
the offense. But, viewing it i'll the most
charitable light possible, there can be
no excuse framed for the willful
and malignant misstatements pub
liShed from day to day in the Min
neapolis Tribune concerning the state fair
exhibit. AS an illustration of the Tribunes
facility for transcending the limits of truth
in ridiculous attempt to belittle the fair,
we clip the following extracts from its edi-
torial columns of yesterdays issue:
Who says Minneapolis has not done the
fair thing for the state fair? Yesterday the
register showed 3, 1S9 visitors from this city
and 1,751 from st. Paul. Each town turned
out in proportion 10 its population-but
rather small proportion we are sorry to say.
Here is another:
The exhibits at the state fair will be sold or
packed up for removal to-day. Goods not
sold will be next seen at the Leaf River OILY
fair.
LII the local columns of the Tribune Of
the same date is the statement that II, 900
people were on the fair grounds on Mime
apOliS day and but 5000 on st. Paul day.
The gate register shows that on Minneapo-
lis day there were over 16, 900 people passed
through the gates into the fair gro unds and
on st. Paul day the actual number was 49,
274. These figures were accessible to any
hOdv that uichad RI ohio in in form al 1On and
what is more, they were actually in the Tri-
bunes possession. What good was there to be
accomplished by willful suppression of
the facts and as willful substitution of
a falsehood? 1t doesn't hurt the state fair.
If for any reason the Tribune is hostile to
the fair association it doesn't succeed in
its efforts to injure the association by the
publication of statements which the whole
world knows to be false. If the Tribune's
malice is directed at ST. Paul. it doesn't
crafty its vengeance by shooting at the
fair association. The state fair is the
property of the people of Minnesota and
every attempt to cripple or ridicule it is
direct insult to every citizen of the state,
and more particularly to the agricultural
CldSS6S. IL Tic 1IlDuUG purpose Is W
boom the Exposition it takes a remarkably
short-sighted course to do it. The state
fair was the Exposition's most valuable ally.
There are thousands and tens of thousa nds
of people who have visited the Exposition
within the last week who would never have
come to st. Paul or Minneapolis if it had
not been for the double attraction of the
fair and the Exposition together. 1t is the
height of assininity to look upon either as
the rival of the other. Where, then. does
the Tribune get in its work and what re-
ward has it for its exhibition of malignity?
The people of Minneapolis do not give
countenance to it and the people of st.
Paul are wholly Indifferent about it. st.
Paul people have gone by the thousands to
visit the Exposition and the people of Min
neapolis came by the thousands to the state
fair. The people of the two cities see no
rivalry between the two exhibitions. In its
attempt to hurt somebody else the Tribune
has only succeeded in hurting itself. Peo-
pie who buy newspapers want the news
and want it told in truthful manner