Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1899-03-24
BLuNDEIts AND DREAMS.

A morning paper which delights In
throwing small darts at It's contem-
porarics but cannot endure the TcntleHt
kind Of rctort. has become dlrgrantlcd
over our exposure u It's attempt 10 mis-
oonstruc an article In the News" res.
peotlng the condition Of the pope. and
now resorts to further mlsrcprcrcnta-
ton and exhibition OF temper. Here are
the facts.
The Dcacrct News published dis
patches which In some respects con-
nlcted. one stating that the pope was
20 near death that the question Of his
successor was being discussed. and the
other that his general health and the
seat u tho operation was In excel
lent condition"
Editorially the News referred a.
both statements but did not express
any opinion either way. our oontcm.
porary at once stated edltorlaily that.
AN evening contemporary says that
the pope IL worse and that his condi-
tion IL critical. A cablegrnm from Rome
says he IN In good health. our con-
temporary should remember It's ex-
pcrience with John Sherman"
Now. M a matter OF fact. the News"
simply referred TO the two dispatches
and dld NOT say whether the pops WA
better or worse. Hut our contempo-
rary also published the dispatches
which brought word Of the popo'H crit.
ical condition In the same issue rs It's
editorial comment. under the headlines;
'i.eo'H Days are Numbered; believed
that His Holiness Cannot long sur
vive."
our nelEhhor now repeats the untruth
that We stated on Wednesday "thc pope
was ON the point of DEATH" and com.
plains because We omitted IT, remark
about john sherman. We replied 10
Ito misquotntlon about the pope aH
separate subject entirely from the re-
ports ~ To sherman. hut now ~ 10
that matter our contemporary says
THE other evening Il dreamed that
John sherman was dead" etc.
our morning contemporaries had tho
same dream" IN the shape NJ Asaodint-
cd Press dispatches. which went to
All the papers In the land that
lake that service. Tho dream" was 20
Ear reality that II was put Into type.
and would have appeared In the morn.
Ing papers, ag In the evening papers. n
the later news had not arrived In time
10 shut II on. The dream" was told
In the Denver papers, The Post had
large cut OF sherman with the big black
headline "lsN-secrctary sherman
Dead" and the glowing obituary"
which was also n dream" perhaps
nut Il was dreamed" by the Assooiat-
"a Press and told In all the cycning
papers which II supplies.
The dream reached the seat NJ Fov-
crnmont aud cabinet ministers, SEM
ators nnd members uf the House cx-
pressed deep sorrow" The news was
received In Washington at . .. M, was
wired here. and the contradiction dld
not reach there until $3.50 o. M. The
dream" was told an over the country.
and the foregoing facts We're not only
published In the News" but IN the
same paper that said the News
dreamed that Sherman was dead"
This Is small matter It Ia true. but
~ IL pin thrust, aud n II h made
viciously IL causes resentment, \ little
faisehood. wllfully told, exhibits dis
position that sometimes needs exposing
The Pope ana sherman points nro not
the only petty darts that have come
from the same source. II there II any
humor In them they have failed to COM
voy II, and the next time our contem.
porary essays such flashes II alleged
Wit It's cfrort should have the Artomaa
Ward label, This h a COAX"