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Show A BLINDFOLD "RESCUE." The Deseret. News having notified the Mayor of this city that it considers him simply one of the band of robbers blameworthy for looting tho city and leaving it in a distressful financial condition; con-dition; and having explained that by reason of its assumption that the " plunderbnnd " in control in this city, with the Mayor at its head, is bent on deceiving the people with respect to the bond issue, it is but natural that the morning church organ should come to the rescue of its evening eolaborer and undertake to show that the Mayor would have nothing to do with the bond money, even if voted ami ihe cash realized This because they both find it hypocritically pleasant to cuddle up to the Mayor at times, in hope of making mak-ing use of him. And thus the opposition opposi-tion works together in beautiful harmony. har-mony. The chief church organ is fervid fer-vid in the support of the Mayor on a proposition that i.s likely to annoy his partv. but at the same time it gives him notice that ii has not the least confidence in his word or in his hon-esty, hon-esty, It told him plainly that it did not believe he would haudle tho bond money, as ho had openly and publicly pledged himself to do, and because it SO believed tho people ought not to vote the bonds This was a serious dilemma in ihe programme of opposition to the bonds, ami so something had to be done to relieve re-lieve the situation. The Smoot "Mouth." with its usual rash and puerile readiness, comes to the front with the proposition that the Mayor won't, have anything to do with the money at all. even if the bonds are voted. This is stated no doubt to help the evening church organ out of the bad tangle into which it got, itself in discussing these bonds. It is singular indeed that the church organ is never abb- To diseu. a question of this kind without winding itself np and getting into such an inextricable tangle that il has to stop through sheer inability to take its bearings and find out "where it is at.'' The Smoot ' Mouth," in childish pity for the evening eve-ning organ's, plight, did the best it could to get 't out of the hole it, had dug for itseif. Bnl there is no helping such an imbecile organ as the evening organ of the church. And, besides that, we have Scripture for it that when the blind undertakes to lead the blind they both fall into Ihe ditch. That, is pre isely the result, of the co-operative labors of these two church mouthpieces on the bond question and an the relation rela-tion thereto of the Mayor, as presented separately and jointly by themselves. They al times seek to flatter the Mayor with dec eit ful praise, in the hope of influencing his action; yet in order to make consistent their warfare on the bonds, they feel obliged to charge him with dishonest purpose, with putting forth falsehoods in his statement, with intent to deceive; and now the latest false suggestion is that he has been Claiming an authority over the proposed pro-posed work which he cannot exercise, and that he won't have anything to say about the handling of the bond money, when in fact he will have the fullest supervision over it all. Thus tho adversaries stumble in their rage, each blinded b passion, and each eul-pahlo eul-pahlo in the grossest, misrepresentation and falsehood. |
