The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1903-01-16
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Interesting News Notes
From Black Hills News
paperdom.

viz SPoPN AASiN DSiiC
a few months ago and unfurled the
banner of simon pure democracy to
the breezes of Butte county there
were those who dubbed it "a fool
venture" Today the Post is doing
well and is getting out the best and
spiciest paper ever printed at the
Butte county hub. 1t is thorough
ly good mechanically and editorially.
"Black Hills Ballads" by Bob
Carr, the poet-journalist, is off the
press. 1t is a well put up volume
and the "innards" are the cream of
all of Bob's inimitable productions.
And this calls to mind the fact that
when the genial Bob's talents first
began to manifest themselves he
was in the employ Of The UNION
man here in Rapid City. Bob was
just a common plug of a typo in
those Gays and smoked The same
KIND OF a dlscolored corncob pipe
that his former ''boss" smokes to
day. That was nine or ten years
ago. While smoking that antiquat-
ed corncob n day Bob got to mus
ing and in a halo of smoke from a
freshly-lighted pipeful of "Sun-
cured he dashed off the "Legend
of Deadman's Gulch,"-a Black
Hills story, made striking and real
istic'by the style that has since
brought fame, and, we hope, for
tune to its author. The present
editor Of The UNION put the legend
in cold type and published it.
Bob rose gradually in the literary
world and with the passing years
has proved the truth of the time.
worn adage that you can't keep a
good man down" But, anyway,
this is the true story of Bob Carr's
first literary production and how it
got into print.
acknowledgements That Tell
the Plain Truth This is the title
OF q recent article by the Rev. W.
S. Rainsford of St. Georges church,
New York. Among other things
he says:
"The chief danger threatening
the life of this country today, in my
judgment, arises in the unsatisfac-
tory state of journalism. There
are journals with an immense sale
whose n effort is to exploit the
news of the country rather than tell
the truth. No lie is more mislead.
ing or vicious than a half statement
or perversion. Democracy must
ultimately succeed, for democracy
and christianity are one, but democ-
racy as a political experiment in
this country may not succeed at all.
Democracy as a government has
failed before and may fail again, but
though this country and that coun-
try fail, the principle of democracy
must ultimately win, for il is Gods
truth. The one thing that threat
ems u democracy in this country
is the perverse effort to spread be-
fore the people not the truth itself,
but the truth garbled and distorted
when it suits the purpose of the pa
per. Two parties to a struggle by
this method are each slandered bv
the other-any wicked, lying sub
terfuge being adopted to make ex.
citement, to arouse curiosity, to
heat passion, and all to make a pa
per sell. The authors of this sort Of
journalism are the worst public enc
mics in the land. They are inject.
ing poison into the young and heal
thy veins Of a great people. Mil.
lions have been spent in colleges
and millions in libraries, and this
money has been well spent. Sure
as you live, the time is near at hand
when f~arseeing men will come for
ward prepared to spend millions in
placing the truth before the people
of the United States--the truth
about politics, finance, art and bust
Mesa trne statement of the news
of the world, not to bolster up a
cause, not to make a fortune, not to
push a political party, but the truth
for its own sake because the cause
Of humanity, which is the cause of
democracy, can live and thrive on
nothing but the truth
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