Salt Lake Tribune | 1904-03-10 | Page 4 | A Question of Accuracy

A QUESTION OF ACCURACY. The church organ last night was very pour. It had much to. say against The Tribune, among other things quoting the following from our columns of Wednesday morning: From tho testimony of Mrs. Matthews It would seem that Mrs. Kennedy was forced Into becoming a plural wife. Sho had asked to be allowed to wait until she was IS years old, but Johnson and her mother would not con.sont, and sho was sent to Arizona and "sciilcd" to Johnson. This the organ pronounces a falsehood, false-hood, "out of whole cloth," and a typical Tribune misrepresentation. At the same time, it Indorses tho Associated Press report, us In the main correct and not wilfully untrue, as it viciously alleges The Tribune's utterances to be. And yet in the same day's Associated Press rnnnrt hla npriiri sir n. nnrfr nf Mr.i. Matthews's testimony: Ho just asked mo if I was willing that ho should marry my daughter and I said "yep," said tho witness. Sho wanted to wait until sho was IS, but ho was not willing. will-ing. . , Now theso arc identical in fact. To condemn one as a falsehood and praise tho other as correct is to advertise one's eolf as lacking both In 'honesty and ability to senso what Is read. It may be snld, also, to be an excellent ex-cellent example of tho way that The Tribune treats all matters of news, and this especial report in particular; that Is, getting it as right as It is possible for the human intellect and good intentions to do.