Rensselaer Republican, Volume 14, Number 11, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 December 1881 — Sensible Advice. [ARTICLE]

Sensible Advice.

[Detroit Evening News.] It is the business of newspapers to print news, and anything that is of interest to the people is legitimate forage for their columns. In collecting news, however, all publishers are exposed to the danger t>f being imposed upon by designing persons or by being misled by thoughtless ones. Few publishers, we believe, would knowingly publish a false statement, especially if such publication would tend to the injury of innocent individuals, and still fewer, having inadvertently given currency to mis-statements, would not" cheerfully hasten to correct the same upon their attention being called to the error, It is utterly impossible to publish a live newspaper without from time to time falling into misfortune. If the victims in such cases would simply write to the publishers, mentioning the error, they would have no cause to complain of want of alacrity in its correction; or if they would call personally they would find editors,as a general thing,the most good natured and inoffensive people imaginable an d even readier to correct an error than to capture a good item. To get mad and go right ofTand hire a lawyer every time a mis-statement appears in print is ridiculous in the extreme, and is rarely practiced by men of reputation, dignity and sound judgment.