“TRUTH” DISCOUNTED.
MR LABOUCHEUE, the eccentric English M. P. and the still more erratic proprietor and editor of the London weekly which he publishes under the name of “Truth”—so called, we suppose, because the truth is not in it—is one of those editors who claim to know it all, and who look down upon as ignoramuses those who presume to differ from them, or whose knowledge seems to surpass their own. “Labbie,” however, as he is familiarly styled, is not unfrequenlly caught tripping, and never so often as when he essays to enlighten his readers on matters concerning America. A paragraph which appeared in Truth of July 11, 1901 is a case in point. In commenting upon the intense heat prevailing at that time in the United States, he lets himself out as follows:
The fancy and imagination of the modern journalist were admirably exemplified in the picturesque descriptions of the effects of the hot weather in America that were telegraphed over last week, especially those designed for the consumption of the halfpenny press in Loudon The detail which pleased me most was the fate of those New Yorkers who, being too poor to escape from the city, and not being able to find standing room at night in the densely packed parks and open spaces, swarmed up the fire ladders iu the desperate struggle for fresh air. They seem to have clustered on these, like flies on a sugarstick, and, as might be expected, those who were not accustomed to roosting in this fashion were continually falling off througdout the night, to meet their death on the burning soil below. There seems no doubt that it has been very hot in the United States, but it strikes me that the effects of the heat are most apparent in the brainsof the local pressmen
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