Show IT IS QUITE EASY It is hard getting along with a contemporary con-temporary that never states a proposition propo-sition fairly So says our neighbor down the streeL We find it the other way It is perfectly perfect-ly easy We never knew the Tribune to state a proposition fairly to which it was opposed But all we have to do is to quote its exact language at onetime one-time with its exact language at another an-other time or in two different articles on the same day As to the power of Congress over a territory that paper plays two utterly utter-ly discordant tunes When Utah held a constitutional convention and framed a state constitution in former times the Tribune took the ground that it was all wrong because of the sovereignty of Congress over the territories ter-ritories and that the proper way was for Congress to grant to the territory the right to do all that by passing an Enabling Act Now it takes the ground that the people of Utah after being authorized to take the necessary steps to form a state and being required to do everything every-thing under the provisions of an enabling enab-ling act may do something for which that act does not provide because it says they have an inherent right to do so In order to get out of this blank contradiction con-tradiction it proceeds to talk about the right of petition and other things that no one disputes But that will not do This is the question Congress has fixed the day and date when the election or the ratification shall take place Now if the terms of the enabling act are not complied with and the President who is to see that they have been complied with refuses to issue his proclamation where does the inherent right of the people to hold another election for a new ratification rati-fication come in Who is to call it who is to conduct it to whom are the returns to be made The only authority Utah has to hold that ratificating election is in the en aibling act according to the prevailing I doctrine Now that failing how can I another election for the same purpose be called without further action by Congress And how can a paper that has denied the right of a territory to move in the matter at all now claim that the people have an inherent right to do something that Congress alone must regulate Another thing Our neighbor says The Tribune has advised while not believing they can legally vote for women < to register and vote That is to say the Tribune admits that it advises something that is illegal il-legal a course which not long ago it denounced as the very extreme of depravity de-pravity One thing more The Tribune attempts at-tempts to reply to our proof that nearly all the Democrats in the convention con-vention voted in favor of the proposition propo-sition to secure women in the right to vote next fall by saying That was not the point raised at all The point was that when the question ques-tion was sprung in the convention almost al-most the entire convention by an overwhelming majority opposed it Oh is that so Well we will have to quote the Tribune against itself again On Wednesday last it said on this subject sub-ject It is a mean political trick the effort ef-fort to have women vote this fall and it was so plain that hardly a corporals guard voted for it We have proved there was no trick about it but that it was a plain proposition openly debated in the convention and supported by all the Democrats except four or five But it is easy to get along with a contemporary con-temporary that never states a proposition propo-sition fairly Just confront it with its own contradictions and it is simply fun |