Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 19, Number 7, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 September 1897 — Put in its Right Light. [ARTICLE]

Put in its Right Light.

Elkart Truth: The practical joker who makes individuals his victim’s should be drawn and quartered wherever he is captured. When he practices his infamous work on newspapers his remains should be roasted after being submitted to the above treatment. There are men in every community who think it capital sport to tell a reporter something untrue about a neighbor, and generally at an hour when the reporter has no time -for further investigation. The victim is annoyed. Sometimes he blames the paper; sometimes he does not. The man who invented the fabrication has nothing more serious to do than to laugh. A citizens’ posse should form to assist the fool killer in a chase after such individuals.