Democratic Sentinel, Volume 20, Number 28, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 July 1896 — Nearly as Bad. [ARTICLE]

Nearly as Bad.

Telling wliat we have heard to another's disadvantage Is not so bad as starting a slander without provoentiori, but it is next to it. Slanders do more harm through being repeated by those who just tell what they have heard than through being first told by the one who invented them. If a slanderer 1 could find no one to pass along his slanders without being sure ns to their truth or falsity, he would have no success In ltis occupation. “Where no wood is, there the fire gocth out: so where there is no talebearer, the strife ceaseth.” Before we tell anything to another's discredit we should first know (not merely think it) is true, and then we should be sure that good is to come of its repeating. “Evil is wrought by want of thought As well ns want of heurt.”