Show Better Quit It The Provo papers are growing quite affectionate af-fectionate The Republican organ has made serious charges against the city authorities as to permitting the continuance contin-uance of gambling and the sale ol liquor in saloons on Sundays The Democratic organ thereupon declares that it is the duty of the writer who makes these com plaints to communicate such information as he possesses to the prosecuting officers and intimates that if ho does not he is himself a supporter of gambling housesIt houses-It goes further and insinuates that while preaching prohibition the writer on the Republican organ has secretly supported ille liquor selling i i The editor takes this to himself and responds i I re-sponds by calling the Democratic editor that fossiIiz d old blackmailer our hypocritical neighbor and concludes I his rejoinder by saying we brand the whole assertion as a malicious and mendacious men-dacious falsehood That is terrible A malicious falsehood is a strong expression expres-sion but when it is mendacious also it is superlatively superlative Discussion of local and national topics with vim and sharpness will not be objected ob-jected to we presume by the most thin skinned politicians in Provo bat the acrid poison of malevolent personalities eats into the heart and leaves n sting there that takes often a long time to heal I Quit vindictive personalities |