The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1903-09-12
A WORD ABOUT THE MINER.

The young man who runs the Nc.
Lean County Miner takes it upon him
self last week to misquote the Leader
deliberately, by assuming the Leader
to have suggested that banks take
up the obligations of educational in
situations. Having thus deliberately
deceived it's readers as to what the
Leader said, the young man of the
Miner proceeds to read a lesson on the
law, forbidding such a procedure.
Briefly replying to the Miner, which
is ordinarily not worth noticing, the
Leader will state that it made no such
statement as the Miner claims. The
article suggesting that institution OBJ
legations be taken up by private
parties was reproduced from the Lis
bon Free Press. Directly following
this the Leader stated that this pro-
posed plan could not be carried out
under the law. When the Miner man
read that statement in the Leader, it
was the first knowledge he had as to
what the law was, or that there was
any law on the subject whatever.
There are two explanations possible
for the Miners misstatement of facts.
One is that it was done deliberately,
for the purpose of deception and to
put the Leader in a false position. The
other is that after reading the inside
pages Of the Leader, the Miner man,
blinded by the evidence of good ad-
vertising patronage and real live
news, was unable to read the name of
the Lisbon Free Press, which appeared
just before the article in question.
The Leader has no objection to the
Miners continuing to obtain it's news
and inspiration from the columns
of the Leader, if it will quote this
paper correctly. Whenever the Miners
young man lies regarding the Leader
and does it deliberately, we shall have
to set him right, and to show the
people of Mclean county what man.
ner of sheet he runs.
To show u readers that there are
a number of papers in this state that
believe as the Leader does on the mat
ter of an extra session, we reproduce
elsewhere a number of comments
from the press of the state regarding
this matter.
The Leader was one of the first
papers in the state to take a decided
stand against an extra session. Its
stand is being indorsed by the lead
ing papers and citizens of the state
every day. The Miner cannot hurt
the Leader by telling the truth and
when it does not tell the truth we will
have to expose it's di%screditable man.
ner of treating a contemporary.
Now as to the circulation claims,
the Leader has no objection to the
Miners making a circulation affidavit
every week or every day, if it wants
to do so. 1t may be that the Miner
needs to swear to it's statements to
have people believe them. If its cir
culation claims are no more nearly
correct than it's quotations from the
Leader, and if the editor of the Miner
has no more regard for veracity in
this instance than in the one we have
referred to above, we leave it to the
people of Mclean county to Judge
how much his affidavits are worth.
The Leader does not need to swear to
any of it's statements. Its advertis-
ing and news columns speak for
themselves as to where it stands,
which is as the first and best paper
in Mclean county, with the best cir
culation in the county.
Having thus replied to the young
nan of the Miner, we shall allow him
to relapse into the %obscurity from
which he came and to which his in
clinations and habits entitle him.