The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1906-06-19
GAMBLING EDITORIALS.

In as Thursdays Messenger there
appeared al editorial on The Rail-
way Fight IL Raleigh" The News and
Observer OF yesterday contained. in It's
department Of editorial comments from
other papers, two extract from that
article, which it published az separate
editorial para graphs from this paper,
but 50 saTbled as TO re entirely mis-
leading as 10 the expression OF cDin-
ion by this paper; III fact TO make The
Messenger take a position entirely i'll
ferent from what the editorial showed
it 20 occupy-to indorse the position
Of The News and Observer in this
contention about the change of s.he-
dule by the Southern
Here is one extract from our editor
ial that paper published under the
heading OF Course Not" as an ex-
preston of opinion by this paper On The
matter in controversy.
If the truth were known We do not
suppose that schedule would nave been
changed if The News and observer
and the Southern railroad had been
on friendly terms.
Whereas, in The Messenger editorial
there was a semi-colon after the word
terms" and the article proceeded
with and on the other hand etc,
and went on to say hat had it been
any other train than h II which
put The News and Observer in the
west at an early hour, that paper would
| not be 50 indignant at the change or
feel called upon to fight 50 vigorously
against it,, and that there appeared to
be a good deal Of spite on both sides.
Again under the heading And prac-
ticed Anarchy" there appeared in the
same department of that paper the fol-
lowing extract from The Messenger
editorial:
While the corporation commission
may have exceeded its powers and
e~ncroached upon the rights of the
Southern in ordering it not TO make
the change in its schedule, that COM
pany made a great mistake in ignoring
the order. 1t thereby hurt its cause,
no matter how good a one it had.
The above is the beginning Of a
paragraph, the latter part OF which
went on to say such action on the part
of the railroad was playing into the
! hands of demogogues who think to win
popularity by abuse Of corporations.
especially railroads."
This is by no means the first time
The News and Observer has played this
from it's editorials extracts Sarbled in
such a way as to give an entirely
erroneous and sometimes directly OPP
posite meaning to that conveyed in the
! original article.
The News and Observers Of
garbling the extract first mentioned
in this article reminds US of the SER
mon an Old country preacher once
treated his congregation to on the sin
of women wearing their hair coiled on
top of their heads. He announced his
lSAl DIS lOplVOC SOluS DO"u. I1e udA
taken as his text the last words of
the verse from the Bible Let him
who is on the house-top not
come down. and from that he
delivered a TRADE against un-
seemly fashions in women's wear, es-
pecially the high crowned knot of hair,
The only difference between the preach
er and the editor of the News and
Observer is that the former was per-
fectly innocent and without design
in his Misrepresentation.
The above is a fair example of The
News and Observers style of quoting
other papers when it wants to make
it appear that they indorse its position
and action, though they may really be
opposing it.