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News vs Sensational Lies.The (}erman-Americans of this region and especially * f Schaumburg and Elk Grave townships feel grossly insulted by the articles published in the Friday and Sundav issues of the Inter Ocean,Sept, 4 and 6, purporting to be re. orts of the Ffings.on-Kohlwing wedding; but in reality a string of lies, without any basis of facts, written by sn b reporters, would-be “smart al cs” whogets pay for tilling space with sensational trash rather than publishingtruth. Their long, strung-out yamswere drawn almost entirely from theirtoo fertile imagination.The reporters for the city papers arepaid by the column and the more sensational their copy, the more space it is given. The truth is too short andcommonplace for their service. Manypapers, to excite the people and get j their money, resort to all the schemes they cau t hink of, without regard to the good or bad results, lor instance nearly all the colored pictures in the Sunday papers are demoralizing -without a redeeming feature, yet they attract attention and are often the first p trt looked over. Their influence on both old and young is bad. They cost money to produce; but so long as people will buy, others will sell anything for which there is a demand, without regard to the moral effect. We are sorry this is so, but can’t,single-handed, brookthe tide.Editor II. C. Faddock was the onlyI newspaper man invited to tire Ffingsten-Kohlwing wedding. We did not know of the presence of the Inter Ocean reporter, until informed by Mr. Ho hi wingI about 2 pm. We then looked the fellow up and gave him the straight facts which he pretended to take down on little cards, bits ofjraper, etc, w hich he afterwards forgot, when his brain got o badly muddled that he lost all sense of a gentleman. There was no gooseberry schrub, head cheese^ or goose berry pies to get drunk on, so he must have made a glutton of himself at the feast. His attempt to be “funny,” will cost tne Inter Ocean many subscribers, as the Germans do not soon forget or forgive such a base affront.The peop e have rights which even the press should be bound to respect. Our people are glad to see facts published but they strenuously object to I being lied about and their maligners | better keep away in future.The main difference between a city and country wedding is, the Germans are more generous on such occasions and invite more guests. The country girls {ossess greater natural beauty and I are more inodes!.- They dress in a sensible fashion and don't ex{oe their pi ivate charms to public gaze. Every sensible man would prefer the true love of a country girl to the vaporizing fawning of the belle cf fashion.I There is no occasion for insulting theGerman-Americans. They are among our best citizens, patriotic, honest, industrious, thrifty; no public mendicants among them. They pay their own way and can hoe their own row always and anywhere. They prove all things andhold fast to that which they considergood. They are here to stay and theirinfluence is rapidly predominating in I shaping the character and destiny of the United States, the most enlightened j and powerful nation on earth. While they believe in Freedom and Liberty, they are religious and the large majority of the better element, are temperate in all things. All will protit from* a better aquaintance with theGerman-Yankees.
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Palatine Enterprise Register
Palatine, Illinois, US
Sat, Sep 12, 1903
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