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Thames Star, Volume VIII, Issue 1907, 12 February 1875, Page 2

Never Backs Dotvbt. —Max Adeler says:—"The * Morning Argus/ down at our place, is scrupulously careful df journalism. When it makes an assertion it never takes it back under' any* circumstances. The other day it announced that- a certain Mr Stebbins had been, eaten in the'wdodsby Squire Hoover's' pigs. The next-4»y, Stebbins called at the office to say that the whole story was* false j such a thing had- never occured, end he wanted a contradiction published. The reporter .assumed & solemn look, and assured Stebbins that when the ' Argus' said a thing,,that thing; was,so ; v and beside, that he had been over' to see the pigs, and they >looked as if they had eaten a man named Stebbins, and there was nobody hamed Stebbins around there,, so he must have been eaten, and all the circumstantial evidence was Ho strong that not another line upon the subject wonld be puplished. Then Stebbins threatened violence, and subsequently the reporter , agreed to put in a paragraph to the effect that persons who had any objections to eating any member of the Stebbins family need not on that accorlnt decline to buy sausages of Hoover, and that was as far as he could conscientiously go. It is perfectly clear that If men are permitted to stultify a free press with their foolery, our liberties are in danger." The Bible is now printed in no less than 200 languages; iv 1854 it was only printed in 50. ; -. '