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Show THE NEWS EVADES. The 'Dcseret News charges The Tribune Trib-une with willful misrepresentation of the attitudo of tho Mormon church concerning the Felling of liquors. Ah usual, however, the News carefully ro-frains ro-frains from publishing the article of The Tribune and chooses to merely place its own misconstruction upon this paper's remarks so that it may argue without any limitation of fact. It might enlighten the readers of tho church organ if that sheet would reprint re-print the entirety of The Tribune article ar-ticle on the Mormon church and saloons, sa-loons, and reply seriatim to tho charges therein made. Tho Dcseret News assumes that The Tribune accused the church organ of defending "illegal saloon traffic." What The Tribune asserted, what it still maintains and what the facts prove, is that tho Mormon church in tho exercise of its political power and in its commercialism has permitted and encouraged the sale and use of intoxicating intoxi-cating liquors. Outside of the brazen statement of tho Deseret News that The Tribune lias misrepresented ihe church and the Ngwf, there is no attempt at denial of the charge. The evasion of the facts at issue, the attempt of the Dcseret. News kto direct public notice from the partnership of the church in liquor selling by its allegations against others, constitute no part, of any argument argu-ment worthy of serious consideration. The charge made by Tho Tribune stands unrefutcd . and irrefutable. Even the Dcseret News, with all its adroitness and its confidence) in the willingness of its dupes to be misled, docs not dare to print the accusation and trust to its own reply. The statement hy the Deseret News that when the American "victor' was won, ' tho city was thrown wide open to sin nnd shnmc," is as malicious mali-cious and hurtful a pieco of mendacity as has ever emanated from that wicked and lying church organ in all its career. ca-reer. That is a knock at. Salt Lake City which, if it wero to be accepted as a truth,' would deter decent men and women from coming hero to establish es-tablish homes .and invest their money. No worse piece of malignant work against the city and State has ever been perpetrated. The Deseret News cries out for peace in this community; that delectable organ or-gan insists that opposition to the church leaders and a recital of their offenses militate against progress in population and business; but it assumes as-sumes that to advertise this city as being wide open lo sin and shame will benefit the State unless indeed it is at last willing to reveal its true pur pose, which is to prevent the emigration emigra-tion into Utah of an American citizenship citizen-ship devoted to the ideals of American Ameri-can life. When the organ of tho Lord makes the statement that this city wns thrown wide open to sin and shame after the American victory, it states what that paper knows to be an unqualified falsehood. Tho vast improvement in conditions here has been remarked by every well-informed well-informed man. The city was being run wide open without restraint. The appalling ap-palling crimes, the unsafcty of life and property, the losses of the work-ingmen work-ingmen at the open gambling houses, and the other attendant .sins against community life, which wore injuring Salt Lake at home and debasing her reputation abroad, called loudly for redress; and the American part' entered en-tered upon the work of correcting the hierarchical misrule hero with determination determi-nation to effect tho needed reform. The men who attcmnt to sav that there has lioen no improvement hero in civic, aflnirs and that no advancement has been made in moral conditions arc actuated ac-tuated by a spirit of untruth.' The News is so besotted in its defense1 de-fense1 of the special sins of tho hierarchy, hie-rarchy, which it. calls virtues, that it can see no sin in any condition, however how-ever 'frightful, if that condition ministers minis-ters to the perpetuation of Iho political poli-tical power of the Mormon church. But it can sec a mountain of evil ii tho ordinary attendants upon tho life of a growing city like Salt Lake, when the community is under American control. The Tribune has novcr claimed that the American party would accomplish or has accomplished the impossible nor that tho part- is the All-Perfect; but this paper asserts, and it has proved its position to every man who knows tho facts, that the moral difference between be-tween tho Salt Lako of today and the Salt Lake whose affairs were under ecclesiastical administration, is the difference which exists between decency of community life and a saturnalia of vice. The church organ cannot escape tho charge of church partnership with liquor selling, nor can it cvndc that accusation by its effort to misrepresent misrepre-sent the effects of American rulo and by its attempt to injure at homo and abroad the reputation of this community. |
