Democratic Sentinel, Volume 8, Number 14, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 May 1884 — Justifiable Misleading. [ARTICLE]

Justifiable Misleading.

“I made no false statements,” said Wendell Phillips once to a critic of one of his speeches; “I simply rectified a fact that had r.o business to be a fact.” “But,” said the other, “your statement was misleading. ” “Did it mislead you ?” was the retort; “well, it is necessary to mislead some people in order to guide them aright. Remember how Paddy had to drive his pig one way in order to make him go the other.”