. Report of the ... reunion of the Grant Family Association .. . ewspapers in searchfor his speech. Not a newspaper in New York made any reference to it,and but one paper in Washington referred to it (not more than thirteenlines), while columns were given to the discussion of scandal, crimes,social affairs, etc., including the toilettes of society women, falsehoods andbaseball. More space is often given to falsehood than to important ques-tions of the times, no matter how they tell it. Really intelligent people willnot believe these falsehoods, and it is better, or so it seems, to leave themal
. Report of the ... reunion of the Grant Family Association .. . ewspapers in searchfor his speech. Not a newspaper in New York made any reference to it,and but one paper in Washington referred to it (not more than thirteenlines), while columns were given to the discussion of scandal, crimes,social affairs, etc., including the toilettes of society women, falsehoods andbaseball. More space is often given to falsehood than to important ques-tions of the times, no matter how they tell it. Really intelligent people willnot believe these falsehoods, and it is better, or so it seems, to leave themalone, uncontradicted. If you contradict them, it will make no difference,and will suit them too well. I sometimes recall the old Scotch preacher,who said: (he was reading from the psalms) — I said in my haste almen are liars, Ah, David, if ye had been here now, you could have saic ^^it at your leisure, if you had wanted to. It is the part of the newspapei -»writer so to frame his paragraphs that sometimes the discriminating readei W Ca) OCa) —A CO00 o N3CO. 2d Vice-President, CHARLES J. NORTH. Buffalo. N. Y. 11 would not know his representative at all, and the worst phase of it isthat the falsehoods lower the ideals of the persons who judge us. I havealways had confidence, however, that those whose good opinion is worthwhile will judge us correctly; but it is too often true that public servantsare just what the people want them to be. Whether at Washington or at Albany, your representatives will be anexact replica of what the people composing the community want. They rep-resent the majority. Public life or business life has not the high standardsit should have, and I cannot refrain on occasions like this from speakingof the great opportunities which come to those in power for raising thestandards of life. I desire that the City, State and Nation should havehigher standards, and that all should give intelligent interest and consider-ation to subjects of the day — that our
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