p. 336 | An Apology by Editor

International Tract and Missionary Society · Oakland, California · May 28, 1885

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 11, No. 21.

An Apology.

By Editor

It is not often that we have to make an apology, as we intend to be careful in our statements. Several weeks ago we wrote a short article—"Alcohol is King"—on the reported order refusing the W. C. T. U. the privilege of giving away water in the buildings of the New Orleans Exposition. We got our information from a paper considered always reliable, and which, we knew, had quite sufficient means of knowing whereof it spoke. Our article was put in type; yet fearing there might be some mistake we gave orders that it should not be used until we had opportunity to verify its statements. In our absence, at the meetings in Healdsburg and St. Helena, it was used contrary to our last order. We regretted it then, as we had not verified it; and much more now that the journal from which we took the statement comes out with a correction, saying it was misinformed. We have spoken only in high terms of the Exposition, and by no means would do it injustice.