The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1904-12-01

About three years ago John Moire,
the only son of poor widow, resid-
ing in Kittson county, was taken to
the insane hospital at Fergus Falls
and has since been an inmate of the
institution. A little later his only
sister, Maragret MORE, was also
taken there, and last week Sheriff
Anderson arrived with Mrs. Moire.
| only remaining member of the family
Mrs. Moire's insanity is said to be
due to brooding over the misfortune
of her son and daughter.
Nels Logan, a poor carpenter of
Albert Lea, has been at work long
time on a machine for husking corn
and this summer secured a patent and
took his device to the worlds fair for
exhibition and advertising. His
friends thought him bit wild to I'M
dertake such a scheme, but word now
comes that his machine Outstripped
all others at the fair and that he has
received an order for 5000 complete
machines, besides other emoluments
to the extent of about SITS, 900.
The body of Jacob Dryhaug, post
master at Shotley, who steriously
disappeared with 81, 300 on his person,
a month ago, VISA found on the shore
of Red lake. The postoffice was about
two miles from the village. Dryhaug
spent Sunday, Oct. %, at the village
and started for home in a boat at
night. The boat was found three
miles down the shore of Red lake the
next morning. Rumors of foul play
have been rife. Relatives who live at
Crookston have searched INCREASINGLY.
MIR. BOX Should Revise Himself.
When a man attempts to frame an
Indictment against an institution such,
for example, as the American press,
he should be careful of his facts if he
wants his Indictment to hold.
Edward W. Box, the writer Of a re-
cent magazine article, who arraigned
American newspapers as unworthy Of
belief, made the serious mistake of
imputing the sins of few to the
many, of the rating down the stand
ard of ten thousand to the stand
ard of ten. Every intelligent person
knows. and no .One better than Mr..
Box, that no editOr-in-chief of a rep
utable newspaper Office wants any
thing but the truth, and that he will
not print anything else if he can help
it. If no higher motive were present
he would not do it as matter of pol
icy.
1t needs only a modicum Of common
sense to see and understand that a
newspaper that wilfully and habit
ually misleads and deceives it's read
ers by falsehoods and perversions of
statement must soon lose the con.
fdence of even the lowest class of
newspaper readers, and with this it's
last asset as a money making enter
prise. Even the yellowest and most
sensational sheets which bring shame
and discredit upon the newspaper pro-
fession do not deliberately invest in
lying stories nor count upon such fea-
lures as source of strength and pop
ularity. They tell the truth as gen.
eral rule, although it may be, Oft
times, that the truth had better been
left untold.
| The American press as a whole is
just as worthy of belief as the Amer
lean pulpit, and to charge that either
one or the other of these agencies is
venal and mendacious would be
equally untrue and unjust.
| The American newspaper reflects as
accurately and conscientiously as any
human agency can do the life and
thought of the American people. This
is it's declared purpose and this it
does as we'll as the intelligence which
it commands will enable it to DO. . To
indict the American press as a falsi-
fer is to cast the same sin at the door
of the whole American public-Les-
lies Weekly.
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