Show THE FACTS IN THE CA CASE THE non mormon members of the city council are still urged and almost commanded to resign because b they or rather an irresponsible writer for a daily paper cannot control the judgment and action of the council this person demands and insists that the four gentlemen shall I 1 get out and falls to abusing the deseret NEWS new in chice ch ice billingsgate for dissenting from this dictum it is very amusing and the impertinence and no as gumption of authority to decide what the four gentiles shall do are am suggestive of the burlesque pomposity of the mock duke the idea is now advanced that it is simply a question whether ons one dull duh soul representing the Morn mormon church is to control the council or not 1 I this is a great mistake there is no one dull or lively soul representing the mormon church attempting to control the city council it is a person of another class and calibre who is making this effort it is the would be dictator of to the four non members of the council we shall see how much attention they will pay to his demanding and I 1 lin insisting I 1 f his epithets and his we verily bellev believe e that they have too much common sense and independence to bend to his be bets this indecent attempt at every bles occasion to drag in 4 th the 0 mormon church has become so 00 frequent that the better portion of the non mormon element are disgusted with it if there were any foundation for such vain repetitions there might be some excuse for their daily utterance but there is no sane person in salt lake city who believes that there is anything more in su such ch allusions than the vapo ringO fl vf of a bitter partisan who is at a loss lose for an argument it is the easiest thing in the world to find fault with public bodies and public men and there is always a class in every community that en toys foys attacks upon persons in office pandering to this degraded appetite is the special resource of a certain kind of so called journalists when subjects are scarce the pothouse pot house politician and the street corner loafer delight in such ef fusions 88 they furnish topics of conversation and opportunities for that grumbling and growling criticism of public men which form the principal occupation ef beery and blasphemous idlers but sensible and thoughtful people either skip over such trashy assaults or regard them with contempt or derision as their mood may be and wish that men with wj ability to write on public questions would cease such paltry attacks and waste of journalistic space and try to build up instead of pull down everybody with ability to see and think knows very well that the mormon church is not meddling with city business that the council is as independent in its own sphere as any firm or corporation of a public or private nature in the coun and that the perpetual drivel about the mormon church con tiT Oling business and legislation and other matters with which it does not attl eMpt to interfere is either the leae ue of dense ignorance or the void tog of malice and mendacity the clity city council is doing very well the the four non cormons mormons in appear ar to be holding their own as strongly as can be reasonably ex of auy any minority ity and while that body is open to public criticism alad an la is lier perhaps haps no more perfect than ahk an tar human beings and ong it is striving to promote the public interest and should be en outraged Ou raged and stimulated instead of Presented and obstructed why cannot harmony be established la in business and municipal affairs for the general good even though men coated therein differ widely in re agton and politics and why should chwe cere be more pother over an image y supervision of some mythical church autocracy than over the to solent arrogant and dictatorial of an aggressive and ac tave newspaper |