| Show Who is Off Editors Herald An editorial article in Thursdays Tribune says President Taylor is entirely off when he says or thinks as he is reported to have said in his address that the end and aim of the Tribunes labor or of those whom it represents is to induce the persecution perse-cution of the Mormons So that the editor may not labor under a delusion I here inform him that Mr Taylor in his address said nothing about the Tribune specific terms and if be were referring to it Indirectly with other deleterious influences at work against the best interests of this community the editor shows much presumption in accepting all the censure for his paper unless the comments in his estimation seemed to be peculiarly appropriate With reference to the above ques tiou it Is only necessary to remark that if any one is entirely off in this matter it is the editor as no person who knows Mr Taylors experience ex-perience would ever suspect that he chinks that the end and aim of the Tribunes labor or of those whom it represents late induce the persecution of the Mormons Mr Taylor is too much of a diplomat dip-lomat to make such an egregious error as that He knows too well that the persecution of the Mormon people by the Tribune is only the mean to an end rihe nature of this end the Mormon people also thoroughly understand and when they pass upon the course of that journal it is always with a view to that end The means they care nothing about but naturally when they look at the end they acquire somewhat of disgust for the entire concern The same article tells us that the paper has published a hundred columns of reasoning of pleading of teaching to one of denunciation and a thousand such columns to dire of vituperation This is not true but if it were there could be no point in the remarks To illustrate The gentleman who is usually credited with the best articles is unquestionably man of much cul tureand acknowledged ability as a writer He writes at times editorial artiples which do him honor and occasionally when he allows his better nature free scope he produces gems of literature with which he adorns his flights of reasoning of pleading of teaching so that the result is admirable At times he argues from wrong standpoints and not infrequently from entirely false information but all this may be pardoned in consideration of his surroundings provided his general work be acceptable to candid and intelligent people As sure as unerring fate however how-ever when through a combination combin-ation of fortuitous impressions impres-sions the gentleman presents us with a fine article teeming with manliness overflowing with humanity hu-manity and sparkling with brilliant braininess just as certainly does some low and inhuman writer on the same page perhaps or more likely on another compile some horrid filth which by its more pungent odor flavors the wLole I Issue I Some of these filthy things maybe may-be and often are retained in the memory there to engender hate and mayhap a hope for revenge but the reasoning the teaching and the pleading are entirely thrown away They are indeed as a spark of affection in the heart of a deadly viper valueless because unapproachable unap-proachable A B C SALT LAKE August 30 1853 |
