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Show f A Tale Of Two Journals I TS IT not high-minded journalism for two slave ' I newspapers to advertise daily, month after month, that the town is open to all manner I of vice and crimes, thus daily inviting toughs, l prostitutes and desperadoes to congregate here; then if a crime is committed and the perpetrators t f are not at once apprehended, to bewail the fact that there is no protection for the public; but if in the direct discharge of his duty a policeman is (forced to kill an enemy to society, an abandoned, f Tfcathen brute, for one newspaper to hail it as a murder, and for the other to preach a half- f idiotic and altogether hypocritical sermon to the t effect that, after all, the beast was a human being and had a soul? t Salt Lake has had one of these .newspapers 1 for several years, but it does not any longer count among decent people because its own pretens- 1 ions to character, would, could they be por trayed in a picture, be a caricature which as a t moving picture would draw hilarious crowds for 5 a 'thousand nights. But the other purports to be a religious newspaper, news-paper, the organ of the only true church on earth, ' a church such as Christ established, and whose head is the direct representative on earth of the Infinite God in heaven, and which head,' when not presiding over a bank directors' meeting, or a I beet sugar company's meeting, or helping to se- L lect the men who are to fill the state or county Hr offices after the next election; or wihon looking w after the interests of his numerous families W all, as the reader will see, being direct imita- 1 tion of Christ on earthcan go to his spiritual tel- 1 ephone, call up the Celestial exchange and con- h verse with Omnipotence. I v , This newspaper for more than three-score years has assumed to be the organ of this church and its head. 4 Being an abject slave it prints Liberty at its mast-head. Being Incapable of printing the truth it has Truth at its main-top. For forty years, though it saw daily, steadily growing up in the heart, of the city a scarlet Babylon, Baby-lon, it was content; though it saw saloons estab- " JlBhed oji every business street, it was content; though gambling houses were wide open all over the business district, it was content; though thieves and hold-ups were the terror of the city, It .was content; though the police tWere in great part made up of thugs and blood-atoners, it was entirely satisfied, and when a band of them beat a helpless, crazy prisoner, whom they had in custody, cus-tody, to death, it that evening pictured them as heroes who tried in vain to shield the prisoner from the mob, when it knew that they threw the fatally beaten wretch out to the mob. But it was content through all this because the 'holy elders had full control of the government govern-ment of the city. But when a new party took control, established order, and suppressed crime as far as possible, and by its work has transformed this city from a hamlet to a real city, from the first day this organ or-gan of the Lord has assailed the new officers and every day since has pursued them; has taken the unsupported babble of prostitutes, thieves and hold-ups and published it as perfectly reliable evidence, and in every way that a characterless liar could twist English has tried to miake it appear to its readers that ithe city is turned over to wantons, to thieves, to criminals of every degree de-gree and the party in power approves and furthers every crime, because its only object is loot. - How natural then It was for it to weep through its types over the lawful killing of a miscreant, whose occupation was the killing of the bodies and souls of men. And this city has tolerated this villainous sheet for three-score years, and our "holy men" who assume divine rights over the children of men, permit this sheet, with their approval, to go to the homes of an honest people who want the truth. This is a queer old camp, is it not? |