The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1904-02-18

In the interest of humanity 1 protest
against the unparalleled slaughter of the
helpless Russians by the British American
newspaper correspondents. If this ter
rible massacre continues another month
there viii not be a Russian soldier or bat
tleship in existence. If Russia had fore.
seen the frightfully destructive power of
the pencil in the hands of these valorous
Dons Quixote she would have surren-
dered long ago to the British catspaw. For
heavens sake! call them OH, then L pre-
dict before the summer is past the JapS
will get out of Korea like rats out of
burning warehouse. observer.
st. Paul, Feb. II.
If our correspondent had confined
himself to the columns of 7 h Clio b e
in seeking information as to the prog
ress of affairs in the East, he would not
be narrowed in his feelings, as he ap-
parently is. The sentiments expressed
do more honor to "Observer's' heart
than to his head, for had he informed
himself properly he would have avoid
ed reading the penny dreadfuls.
We must decline to call off the gen.
tlemen who are engaged in destroying
the Russians. In fact if we did call
them off they probably would not come
away. They are out for a feast of
blood and they are not in our employ.
Some Of them are perhaps not in the
far East at all, for it is apparent from
the matter printed in the columns Of
some of our contemporaries that GER
tain literary. parties are getting their
information by wireless telegraph and
writing it down in comfort in New
York. For when a man is draw
ing on his imagination for his facts it
makes little difference where his phys
zeal body be.
The Globes reports from the
scene Of trouble have been in every
instance verified. The Globe was
the first paper in the Northwest to
print the news of the first engagement.
It's reports were Endorsed by later pub
locations which copied them-and that
in spite of the copyright title. Each day
we have set forth without exaggera-
ton the verified news. Each day we
have thrown away fakes which our
contemporaries-hav no authentic
news-have printed as facts. This we
will continue to do. 1t is a case OF
knowing what not to print.
The Globe is represented in the
far East by Mr.. o. K. Davis, who has
recently proceeded to the front from
Toxic, and Mr.. Bennett Burleigh, who
story of the torpedo boat attack on the
Russians which signalized the open
ing of actual hostilities. The first Of
these is known among newspaper men
as the most enterprising, accurate and
capable Of living war correspondents.
He IS in charge of the New York Her
aid service in the East. Mr.. Burleigh,
man of wide reputation, is serving
the London Telegraph, which by bus
mess arrangement, supplies all its mat
ter to the New York Herald and T h e
G o b e. The Herald and the Tele-
graph do not print fakes. They do not
tolerate men who write unverifled mat
ter. T e G 20 b e feels perfectly safe
in relying upon these distinguished
travellers and trained correspondents.
They, in their turn, direct the move
ments Of their subordinates, and their
judgment is final in estimating the &C
curacy and value of news reports.
How much responsibility rests upon
them will be appreciated if one but
considers the great distances that sep
arate the news distributing centers
from the news sources in the theater
Of war and the difficulties that stand
in the way of transmitting informa-
ton.
observer" may rest assured that
he Glob e, printing exclusively in
this territory the Herald service, will
not give publicity to fakes such as
have appeared in startling headlines in
other morning papers within the past
few days. We cannot undertake to
create news, but when there is any
thing doing T h e Globe guarantees
to print the first reliable reports of it.
And we wash our hands of the blood
Of those Russians so ruthlessly slaugh-
tered by New York ''pipe fiends."