Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1905-10-27
STORIES d. NED

Intelligent readers OF the daily press
know very well that many of tho
stories told 10y reporters and telegraph
cd from one locality To another about
public men and women or public
events have Very little foundation u
faet They also know that when "A GER
tain class Of writrs turn against any
body their stories are no more trust
worthy than those OF Munchousen, and
Just os valuable for the Information
they contain But some do not possess
this knowledge They are unable to
discriminate between truth and false
hood, ana they accept for gospel truth
whatever they see ia print, IN their
party organs. It has nearly always
been the fate VI the Latter-day Saints
10 De the objects Of iuimical newspaper
stories, and the prejudlced public
knows them chiefly through such tales,
They do not care to investigate. but
take the testimony Of bitter enemies,
who would not be heard before any
impartial court
A rather amusing illustration Of
Newspaper falsehood is that furnished
by the reporters Of the recent journey
of Miss Alice Roosevelt That lady
took q trip with the government party
that went 10 the Philippines ana other
AsJatiu countries. and the reporters
who followed the party thought 1t their
duty TO furnish the American public
some strenuous reading matter con-
corning the Presidents daughter Ono
Of the stories cabled around the world
was that the Sultan OF sulu had pro-
posed to her And all the world laugh
ed at the idea. one OF our contem-
poaries gravely explained THAI ell
quette demands, In Sulu, that gentle
man. when pleased with a lady offers
to marry her, II Is, we were told
merely a mark Of high esteem and re-
spett as when we IN this country BY
the expression "at your service" offer
a compliment 1t was good story
and the world was amused But now
comes Miss Roosevelt and says It was
made UP of whole cloth,
And that was not the only falsehood
about that estmabDc young lady. She
denies the story that she diyed, in her
travelling costume. into the swimming
tank OF the Korea ON the outgoing
journey, or that Congressman Long
worth dlycd after her on a dare She
also denies that she had any desire to
/ break any railroad records on her trip
east with the Hartman party which
| came over with her on the Siberia. An
| other story widely circulated was that
regarding the expensive presents she
was alleged TO have received. One pa
Per calculated that the duties on these
| presents would amount to considerably
more than the presidential salary for
one year. Now that yarn is also brok'
en-. Miss Roosevelt is reported as hay-
ing said;
"All the presents that l received were
| merely inexpensive mcmentos Of the
trip, such as any girl travelling IN
| strange countries would receive There
| really was nothing 80 remarkable about
my trip, ana ! cannot understand why
So much fuss was made about 1t.
had AN exceptionally good time and en-
ioyed every moment that ! was away
The only thing that / regret is that s,
many nonsCnsICol stories We're circulat
ed regarding me-
Itisu pity that the prcyaricators wh,
started so many untrue stories abou
the trip cannot, IN some way,be reache,
by the arm OF Justice, as a warning ex
ample to other alsehood-mongers, !
is pity they cannot be branded an
exposed iu their true character. Their
ls now am agitation ON foot agains
the adultorauon Of food. There Shout
De strong agitation against the adul
ttrauon OF press reports, too. TN
fraud who sells sand for sugar an
sawdust for breakfast food is no mean
ar a thief than the sneak who sells He
about his fellowmen, under the guis
OF news
one Of the most absurd stories ser
out concerning Miss Roosevelt is on
| c8bIad from Copenhagen 10 q Frenc
/, journal II IS as follows
alice I, Queen Of the Valkyries
the great success OF the peace negJ
tIaNons which has invested PresidgI
Roosevelt with a prestige almost roy
in its character may very easily tuI
b the heads of the NorWogians, AS
matter of fact, the modern Nalkyrie