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Show "NEWS" MORALITY.. j One would think from the very virtuous virtu-ous tone which the Netos assumes about things in general and journalism in par-ticular par-ticular that it was a model of all the virtues vir-tues with a dash of godliness. In its issue of last night it strode a high horse and posed as a lover of truth and decency, things as foreign to it as the shores of - Asia. It took- occasion to refer to the Democbat as a terrible example of what it meant by. unreliable journalism. The position of the Jftu as regards right and wrong can be best illustrated by what "we heard a prominent Mormon eay this morning concerning that paper. He said that bo long as he remained in the chnrch the JVcus would stand up for him even if he were to do wrong, but that if. I "he were to leave the church the New ' would go for him in everything he did. The man who made this remark is well known in the community, and as the saying goes, he knows the News like a book. He characterized the Newt as being the counterpart of the Tribune. If the Democrat errs at times, it errs unintentionally and not through design. The very reverse is the case with the News. ; What it lacks in any respect it i makes up with venality. Its course dur- j ing the years 1873-9 is sufficient to prove j this. That it had the sanction of its j church authorities for its course during j those years is true. This paper has never Bought to emulate the graphic descrip- tions of the News in telling of court pro- j ceedings, and it is safe to say there is not I another paper in America that could or i would have published such an obscene ! account of any occurrence as the Netvs' i account of the Lewis case before Justice Spiers. When the News', account of that case' is remembered, we are forced to ' think that it ill . becomes the Xeict to j point to other journals .to illustrate that feature of journalism which "'so characterizes char-acterizes the columnsof the News. The 'Junius" letters'of the Xfews would serve exceedingly wetf asjan illustration, of the lpwesCtype of..5bscene literature. But, why seek to prove 'about' the News what everybody admits? |