The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1900-10-30

one of the most extraordinary articles
we have ever seen.
In the first place the Bulletin admits
that it has been guilty of the absolute
ly dishonest practice of using another's
brains and trying to pass it off as the
original product of the editors mighty
intellect. In the article as originally
!, printed in the Bulletin no credit was
given. 1t seems that the article was a
cheat all the way through. Every
statement made in it was untrue and 1t
was the evident intent of the Bulletin
to further deceive the people by max
ing them think it was an original art
icle. To steal the ideas and writings
of another is just as, much theft as to
steal anothers purse. On the charge
of plagiarism the Bulletin stands self
convicted.
The Bulletin further states that the
statements it stole from the Baltimore
Sun are substantially correct. Does
the Bulletin mean to say that the sta :
ment that it requires 20 bushels more
corn to buy wagon now than in 1896
is substantiantially correct? Does the
Bulletin insinuate that the people are
such idiots as to believe that barb
wire costs from 81 90 to 81. so more now
than it did in 1862 The Bulletin
should not publish statements unless
I it knows they are absolutely correct.
Itshonld be more careful as to what it
steals from other papers.
The charge that the Review is a
.tbigotted buffer and bulldozern is of
course all tommy-rot.
How about the hundreds of demo-
cratic stockholders and managers of
big corporations? Have they also low
cred their prices IN order to elect Nc
Kinley? Business men the world over
whether on the farm, in the factory or
in the store are not in business for
their health. but in order to sell their
products for the highest prices they
can obtain. Prices rise and fall &C.
cording to the demand and the state of
the country. However if the Bulletin
meant a few weeks ago. why did it
not say so? Why did it give its read
ers to understand that it was talking
OF pre- vailing prices of Oct, 1900 when
it meant the prices of a s'few weeks
ago?n Wewill bet dimes to doughnuts
that the Bulletin does not know to-day
the exact date when the article it stole
was originally published in the Balti-
more Sun. 1t may write and find out,
but it does not know now
The Bulletin states, "We will show
that the Review deliberately falsifed
prices in 1896. The Review went to
various merchants and asked Tor prices
on the articles mentioned in the Bull
letin's stolen article on the date of the
II the publication, OF the article and on
the nearest corresponding date in 1896
This was as fair as we could make it.
The Bull in did not state that it
meant the prices of a few weeks ago.
and.we could do nothing more nor less
than to take the Bulletins article on
its face value. The Review states on
its honor thatit did not change one
figure as submitted to it by Denison
merchants and business men. If there
was any untruth told it was told by
those business men and merchants and
we have known them for many years
as, honest and upright men and we be.
lieve they told the truth.
The Bulletin says. 1--WE will show
that prices are much higher now than
in 1896 and prove it by the Review s
own figures. The Review did not at
tempt to conceal that some articles
We're higher now than. in 1896, it stated
so in so many words, but it also proved
that the farmers of Crawford county
could buy much more with their corn OF
hogs than they couldin '96. That is the
point OF contention. Not the price in
dollars and cents but in farm produce
The Bulletin says, We will show
that the reason farmers do not fence
an acre more than they have to is be
cause the price of barb wire is double
what it was in 1896. Remember this
Is the present tense of which the Bull
letin speaks. Watch for its proof, see
If it does not try to find the loves,
point Of prices during the hard times
and compare them to the highest point
it can find during prosperity. Rela
tive to the statement that the Review
was unfair in its presentation of the
matter to the merchants, we have only
to say that in each instance we called
the merchants attention to the Bulle
tins stolen article and told them sub
stancially what we wanted of the fig
ures. Moreover we did not rely upor
one source of information, only in the
majority OF cases but inquired of sever
al engaged in similar lines of buiness
To the best of our knowledge the in