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Show ANOTHER "NEWS" SNEAK. The Xewn lost night just wolce up to. the position it finds Itself in by coupling tho tithing no-report and tho City Auditor's report together. It denies that it has made any comparison as lo them. And yet it was the Xows which treated of the two under the same headline and in tho same conncc-' lion. Whether it meant that, for a comparison between the two or not, makes no difference; the comparison was there just the same, and it was made by the News. The church organ is at its' railing at tho City Auditor because, as it claims, he did not make the report which the law provides that he shall make. It is the duty of the City Auditor lo make the report required re-quired by law. it is also the moral duty and fiduciary necessity for Joseph 'P. Smith, as trustee, to report on' I ho j tithes, a report that will give some I facts; yet he utterly failed' to do it. But tho Auditor made a report which was fairly comprehensible and comprehensive, fulfilling llie law. That it did not happen to suit the Xows is no great matter, especially when it is remembered how dense the News is on figures, aud that, .we offered lo join it in digging out from the city's account? j anything that it might, find of interest and at. present, obscure. And wo invited the News at the same time lo mako a liko proposition in our bchnlf with respect to tho tithing fund. That the Nows is not able to boar this reciprocal comparison is no fault of ours. We were doing the best ivc could to got at the facts in both cases. Wc will help the News in every way wo can to get at Ihc facts about tho city's finance?, and we invite it in return lo do all that it can to give us the inside on tho tithing accounts. Wo do this with Ihc more confidence since the News opened this matter in that form, and in one leading editorial coupled the two together, to-gether, inviting us lo do precisely what we here offer to do to help if to all possible knowledge of the city's finances in return for its reciprocal help in the tithing accounts. The church organ's reception of-our invitation is characteristic. It says that wc have lied about it; that it made no . comparison between the two. and that, its constant troublo Avith us is that as soon as it straightens one matter mat-ter out, wo.hnvc two to present for its further action. In all this, it styles what wc bring forwatfli as' "lies;" and what, it answers as "truth." Which, of course, is merely its euphemistic wny of stating that it wants to get out of a bad scrape.. The fact is that we present pre-sent the truth and the record right along. Wc are able to point in every case lo the exact proof of what wc say in extracts from church1 sermons, in the official records of the church, and in what is fully established and known as to individuals whom we name. The News contents itself with evasions and bald denials, vituperation, and attempts to mislead the public. In all matters it is very careful to re-' frain from giving what wo say to its readers. In lieu of this it presents its garbled, evasive, and false representations representa-tions to them as the genuine thing, and then proccods to knock the stuffing out of its man. of straw. Which may bo very pleasant lo the Xews, but is hardly hard-ly edifying to the Mormon people. Still, that is what they have to expect from the News, - and thoy have long ago learned that to get at the genuine thing they have to take The Tribune. And in return we get from them the expression of l heir profound dissatisfaction dissatis-faction with the way things arc con ducted by the church leaders, and in especial their very earnest discontent with the sort of tithing report which was made at the recent conference; a roport which showed no figures at all,, but only that a committee which, Joseph I;1. Smith had himself appointed, reported report-ed just what he wanted reported, and no more. ' |
