The Globe-republican., 1894-12-28
Nothing Gained BY Lying.

Our populist brother editor said in his
last issue that it did not ''stand to
reason that he and Snow and the other
populist gentlemen would lie about the
opposition newspapers. We agree with
him. 1t was a very unwise and un-
reasonable thing to do. He asks ''who
would have the greater object in lying
about it, Bro. Shinn or the Leader
editor?''
By asking this question the editor un
Willingly exposes very unfortunate
mental deformity. By this expression
he admits the possession of that un-
reasonable hallucinatiOn that it is pos
sib!e 10 attain some desirable object by
lying.
The fact is. no man who holds such
an opinion. and acts upon it. can make a
success IN the newspaper business.
TO lie, or even prevaricate. will render
a newspaper of no value I" the one who
desires TO know of passingsevents; its
advertising columns vii! not receive
patronage. and the community in which
it is published will only receive injury
by its presence.
There are some individuals. however.
who seem to be possessed of lying
spirit They tell lies when the truth
would better serve their purpose. Some
times such person gets into the news
paper business. and the unfortunate
habit wrecks every Journalistic venture.
and the miserable victim IF his own
moral infirmitv is compelled to move
about from place to place like the
wandering Arab.
1t is annoying to be lied about. but
from business point of view it is
better to have newspaper rival who
makes false statements and prevaricates,
than one who has sense enough to ''tell
the truth though the heavens should
fall
Therefore we prefer, so long as the
populists have newspaper to contend
for a share of the business in this COM
mnnity, that Bro. Lucas be kept in
charge, and would not have him sent to
the penitentiary for any consideration.
If our contemporary feels that lying
about us is any ''ObJect' to him at all he
is welcome to indulge himself to the
fullest extent, without the least danger
of being sent to the penitentiary for
libel.
The question of who had 1.-The greater
object in lying" is not so important as
who actually did make false statements,
prevaricate, and try to deceive the
people of Ford county.
In order to refresh our neighbor's
memory on this subject we will ask him
what ''object" he had in trying to make
the people believe they had paid s22O
for ballots used by Ford county in the
November election, when he knew $45.O 90
of this amount was for those spoiled by
the State secretary's mistake?
What ''object'' had he in trying to
create the impression that the County
Commissioners did not have ''thc opinion
of some disinterssted person who under
stood figuring that class of work, !" when,
IN fact, they adjourned several days in
considering the tax list and got the
opinion of number of disinterested
persons used to figuring on such work,
and consulted with an experienced of
N~:~ tho ~ co.
election printing?
What ..object" did he have In trying
to create the impression there were only
about 1900 town lots advertised for sale
in the delinquent tax list last summer,
when any one can take up the paper and
count over 1000? We keep copy on
file and cordially invite any one to come
and see.
What s.Object" had he in making q
false statement as to what Ford c0unty's
ballots would come to, figured at the
rate per thousand charged Reno county
and a false statement of the amount they
would come to at the general average of
those densely populated counties:
Furthermore, what .'object'' did he have
in emitting to give prices paid for
ballots in thinly settled counties like
Ford, and bringing forward only those
densely populated counties east of us,
where it costs less expense to make a
thousand ballots than it did to make 800
ballots for Ford county?