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Show Domination. Editors Herald. Priestly domination is a bad .ling proved so by the Tribune in very form of assertion and invective. But how about journalistic dominalon ? Dictation even to thojo who likout is one thing the Tribune aays uivry bad thing. How about dictation to those who do not love to be diebted to? This latter style of instrutliou supposes universal authority. Itw.is probably in the exerciso of this gine-ral gine-ral jurisdiction that (to illustrate the point) the Tribune took a PrutedaiU bishop to task and publicly astuncd to regulate his devotions. This ilus-tr.il-s the happy liberal mcUiol of dictating to those who are inclinec to ilisnku the dictation. Churchncn 'nrf. tolerably well satisfied with Mial is sometimes called a moderate eps copaey. A journalistic arch-episto-pato is anew development sone- thingthat old foyy churchmen tiiiik demands a sober second thougit. 1 The striking point in this liberally i is tho logical invention, not to i say self-contradiction 'it exhibits. ex-hibits. A subsidiary rcmarkaUe thing is the distinct claim to dominate domi-nate even over priestly domination. Hamlet would perhaps havu cill;d it out-Herodiug Herod. Another .atill inferior matter is that a liberal journal, while acting opiscopally is nevertheless willing to let it hekuovn that it has no iaith whatever: "knows no God, nodi-vil, no hell, ao heaven." Of course this is making rather short work of law, morals, religion re-ligion and socio ty itself. The extreme ex-treme beauty of the case is that il is the case of special and speo.ia.ly j zealous champions of tho bible law of monogamy. What has a thorough i skeptic to do with marriage at all? However the Tribune does not euro to throw moro than a covering af j gauze ever its skepticism, very niueh aa certain historical critics have said was tho case of Pope Leo the Teni. ' But after all it is singular that h-j.h i Leo and the Tribune, should slill cling to their claim of atwolutUm in church and state. The liberal journal would of course be indignant at tho suggestion, bet would it not do to play christian once in a while with a view to being a successful demagogue? Tho reil demagogue is a man who bIiuus the charge of being a hobbyist, and has at least some breadth of talent. He cultivates repose of manner because it indicates conscious ability, and is versatile and broadly humorous br the same reason. Utah is already lo i considerable extent cosmopolitan in tone. An accomplished demagogue dema-gogue would not play on a harp of a thousand striDgs as though it were a banjo. It is not to be imagined tliat a newspaper can be required for ttie mere purpese oi intellectual titillation in any community whatever. OijC repudiates the thought. Nevertheless Neverthe-less the characteristic pungency of the Tnbu e is to be accounted for. At all events, possibly a little general geniality of feeling, tempered with tome versatility, might not be amiss any way. Oct. 25. Gentile. |