The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1908-08-26
A LIAR NEATLY CAUGHT.

A LIAR NEATLY CAUGHT.
1t will be remembered by lovers
of Mark Twain that the Yankee at
the Court of King Arthur came it over
Merlin the Magician in the following
fashion, to-wit; Merlin was some
thing of liar himself and he sue
ceeded in impressing his greatness
upon the people by his wonderfully
accurate descriptions of what was 60
ing on at the other side of the globe.
No man knew to the contrary and
all stood agape at Merlin's marvellous
powers. But the Yankee. forsooth,
asked him one simple question and all
his magic vanished and he stood
forth plain unvarnished liar and a
fraud. The question propounded by
the Yankee as he stood face to face
with the Great Prevaricator was this,
How many fingers am holding up
behind my back?"
Merlin is not the only falsifer who
has lost his grip because of a certain
carless method of lying about things
concerning which the people have a
chance to know the truth.
The Bulletin has been lying about
the Review for several months. Very
foolishly we tried to run down one of
its lies, but we confess to our mis-
take. The Bulletin can lie faster
than a wireless telegraph. 1t is
like the mythical that monster had two
heads grow whenever ore was cut.
These lies about the Review were of
such nature that the average man
had no means of knowing absolutely
that they were lies. But the Bull
letin, like Merlin. has gotten too near
home.
Here is Bulletin lie that is so
self evident and so malicious as to
render innocuous all the other lies
with which it may in future spoil
good white print.
With characteristic lack of humor
the Bulletin in its issue of Aug. 10
grows wrathy over little joshing
the Review gave it the week before
and says.
'tThe Review sticks to its Mig
4 gardly meanness and does not ever
give the carnival dates Of the differ.
ent towns.
In the very issue of the Review Of
which the Bulletin complains the
issue of August IL, in a prominen'
place on the local page there was
published list headed "Dates To B,
Remembered. This contained tn
dates of more than a dozen of tn
events scheduled for August and Sep
| TENDER throughout the county. No
, only this, but the carnivals at Schles
( wig,at Vail, at Charter Oak. the pic
\ MICS at Buck Grove. at Kenwood. q
e Denison. The Old Settlers Picnic. etc
n had been given, prior to August 18th
easily twice as much free space in tn
q Review as in the Bulletin and this ne
a including the two columns of slus
about carnivals' which was, ar
!, which was intended to be. the be-
g possible form of advertising all the!
: events by intoxicating the carniv
. spirit.
= All this is comparatively unimpor
~ ant but the lying of the Bulletin is
IT this case so evident. so malicious.
ID wholly without ground that we ca
III not forego calling attention to
&c "The Review does not even give t
nd carnival dates" and there they wer
er top of column, local page of the san
of issue the Bulltein criticises.
in Hereafter we would advise the B,
N letin to be more circumspect in
cy lying. 1t can lie about the numb
hi of the Reviews exchanges because
mt does not know and the people do n
m. know. 1t can call the Review 81
scribers dead-beats if it wishes. Ca
by the way we dare it to be me
specific and point out the dead bes
on the Review LIST but it should
careful not to lie when the proof of
gs lying is in black and white before
Is We do not use the word lying a
DIS liar unadvisedy and without meanin
ct We mean exactly what we sa
OF the man who wrote the paragraph
IN question, with copy of the Revi,
I'd evidently just before him. told q
We liberate and malicious lie. Accord
ra to the dictionary he is liar. Tia
m. Mr.. Caswell, your it.
MS