Show AATEJIORTEM The blank ccntradictions on various topics which The Herald has reproduced repro-duced from the daily Obituary showing show-ing from its own pages its utter unreliability unre-liability on public questions have provoked pro-voked our contemporary beyond the Hn6 of even its accustomed irascibility It has reverted to the methods which it was wont to use when confronted informer in-former times with its own discordant utterances and unable to harmonize them and Unwilling to acknowledge an error it gets down into its congenial congen-ial gutter and casts up mire and dirt But its personal squirts simply fallback fall-back upon its own brow and it becomes be-comes the victim of its own bespatter ment We expected the Obituary would be angry and would try to turn attention atten-tion from its undeniable opposite statements state-ments and selfrefuting arguments by some personal attacks upon the supposed sup-posed collector the jumble There its i no need to retort in kind All that is neqessary to show what the Obituary might be truthfully called is to quote its assertions made on different dates or in different columns on the same date i2 Obituary Is fond of dubbing perI sons who expose its shocking mendacity mendac-ity with the title of the greatest and smoothest liars The Obituary does not belong to that class It is of the smallest and meanest grade and its product is the rough plain blunt kind that needs no label and requires neither neith-er epithet nor epitaph Nor has it reduced mendacity to an exact science as it claims others have done who venture to call attention to its inconsistencies There is nothing exact about it The untruths it flings out are governed by neither rule nor reason They are recognized as merely vicious intemperate and unmeasured un-measured lies Take for instance Its rash and ridiculous falsehood about Judge Hendersons speech at Saltair There was in that fabrication neither science nor sense neither reason nor excuse It was a straight rough awkward awk-ward and unpolished lie And because The Herald will not let the Obituary lie itself out of it the native viciousness vicious-ness of that concern is exhibited in a blind and rabid personal attack on some one supposed to be its exposer The Obituary is just as ready to write antemortem eulogies by way of anticipation as to wait until the subject sub-ject has departed As for instance its labored death notice of James G Elaine while he was yet in the land of the living But our contemporary calls that postrhumous work showing that it either needs some elementary lessons in language as much as it does in finance or that it regards itself as practically defunct which very few people will now be disposed to dispute But we suggest to our irascible and intemperate contemporary that In writing obituaries either of the living or the dead it will gain more renown if by strict repentance it shall retreat within the lines of truth A little ex L cravagance ot eulogy may sometimes be pardonable when springing from exuberance ex-uberance of generosity or admiration But daubing either the quick or the dead with violent colors from an excess ex-cess of hate or an overflow of gall will not establish a faded reputation divert di-vert attention from repulsive inconsist encles or pave the way to any communion com-munion with St Peter either inside I or outside of the pearly gates |