The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1891-12-23
A Question Of Veracity.

the community.
On Saturday TIE Sun analysed an alleged
list Of one hundred alleged saloons printed
by the Evening Post on Dec. IL. with this
preface:
"of the 143 licenses examined yesterday. 49, It was
learned for places In tho immediate vicinity Of
schools Here are 100 of the now places Of the
1sl found in an examination of list Of 1+a."
The Post. therefore. specified or pre-
tended to specify only 100 Of the 1871 80
looms newly licensed in the immediate
vicinity" Of schools which 1t pretended to
have found in an examination OF 143 new
licenses. OF the 100 alleged saloons which
it did specify, II were made to do duty
twice in the list. while two were used thrice.
The list really contained 70 items only. So
the Posts pretended 131 out OF 143 were re-
duced at the start to 70 out Of 14s. Concern
ing this part Of our charge Of dishonesty. I'M
PuDKNTIssIMUs has the extraordinary reck-
lessness to remark:
cit asserted by srs that the Eeeninq Po had
made OF some saloons in duplicate for the purpose
Of making the number licensed By Mayor GRAxfs Ex.
else Board appear larger than t really did
point the fat ne method pursued By he Ecenng Pot
place sgn oppo the number Of such suoon which
explained indicating that the saloon mentioned aa
in that fssue o. hs paper"
We did not point out that fact. because it
is not a fact. No sign OF any sort is placed
opposite the number Of any one Of the
seventeen alleged saloons which appeared
or OF either OF the two saloons which appear
thrice. to indicate that such saloon was
mentioned more than once in that issue Of
the paper. In evidence Of the utter falsity
OF the Posts assertion printed above. we
can only refer any person who cares to look
up the matter to the list ITSELF printed In
the Post Of Saturday. Dec. ~. The list be-
gins. " Here are 100 Of the new places OF the
131 found In an examination Of O list OF 49,"
and there is absolutely no explanation or
indication. geographically or otherwise,
that the list is not what it pretends to be.
Next, IMPUDENTIss1MUs has this to say
concerning our charge that he has system
atleally reckoned as saloons menaeing
the schools. licensed places under class 4.
where no liquor is sold to be drunk on the
premises:
at THE suSl learned from an explanation made in
the columns Of this journal that in the Of the
exposure the Erening Post had inadvertently mentioned
saloons places holding licenses to sell beer or
liquor not to be drunk on tho premises and ss
oJ voInary correction for charge that this newspa.
per had dealt unfairly with tire subject"
This. likewise. Is absolutely false. We
discovered early In our investigation OF the
Posts misstatements that 1t was misrepre-
senting class licenses by the wholesale as
saloon licenses. OF the twelve places in
the Posts 100 which were nearest by the
Posts dishonest measurement to some
school, and exhibited as SALOONS" threaten
ing the schools at very short range, not
less than eight. or slxty-six per cent. were
found by US not to be saloons at all. The
investigation of this department Of the
Posts mendacious activity had been fin
ished. and the results were IN type.
before that newspaper, alarmed. no
doubt. by the knowledge that hon
est scrutiny was on its track, took
occasion to hedge vaguely by the admission
that in its lists had been inadvertently
included some places" which did not belong
there. But no correction. voluntary or 9TH
erwisc. has been made by the Post Of its
bogus lists. and no retraction OF conclusions
which 1t has drawn from its fraudulent sta
tlstics. And up to the present time it has
continued to represent as saloons" places
which are not saloons whenever the lie has
suited its convenience.
We charged. further. that evan a,,cord,,.
to it's own deceptive and preposterous
method of measurement. namely nv q s,x,
hundred-foot air line through solid build
incs and solid blocks Of buildinra from Tho
nearest point Of tho school building to the
nearest point OF tho alleged saloon, the
HDsts figures were utterly Enthusiastically,
That newspaper understated the tr,,e aIr.
line distance in nearly forty cases ont ~ n
possible one hundred. bv understatements
VARYING from ten feet to twentv.1ve hun.
dred. or this charge. IMpupEyr,ssI,rIrs