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Show CITY AND TITHE ACCOUNTING. The church organ persists in its comparison com-parison between the report of the auditors audi-tors of the tithing fund and tho reports re-ports made upon the city finances. It insists that the tithing report was eminently emi-nently complete and satisfactory, while the city financial reports arc not. It seems from this that the report by the experts who have so long been engaged en-gaged iu perfecting a system of accounting ac-counting for the financial transactions of this city would have been entircly satisfactory to the News, if it had not carried any figures, had not struck any balances, had been without any statements of what has been done in any particular direction, except the most general conceivable. If these ex-perls, ex-perls, following the example of tho auditors aud-itors of the tithing account, had simply sim-ply Btntcd that they found everything in good order and condition, the books regularly kept, and all money satisfactorily satis-factorily accounted for, giving no amounts of receipts or expenditures in any direction, the News would have been delighted. Tt is not necessary, according ac-cording to the News, to make any financial fi-nancial report that carries any statement state-ment as to amount of receipts, amount of disbursements, balance on hand, how much money has been devoted to one purpose or another, and, iu fact, that the report; which omits all figures and all details, both of receipts nnd expenditures, expen-ditures, is the ideal form of report to make. The News is grossly mistaken when it thinks that the Mormon people arc satisfied with the auditors' report on the tithing fund. The Mormon people aro not in the least content with that sort of report. And they have no right to be content with it, just as the taxpayers tax-payers of this city would have no right to be content if the experts on city accounting had made precisely tho sort of a report of tho public receipts and expenditures of the municipality that ibc church auditors made on the tithing tith-ing fund. And, again, we sav that when there is as full and complete a showing of the tithe money as has been made of the public money of this cit3T, then it will be time to make the comparison suggested sug-gested by the News. Tn the meantime, the city in its accounting is so far ahead of the tithe accounting that the latter is not even in sight. And again we renew our plea that if there is anything any-thing in the financial affairs of this cil3' that is not entirely clear and straightforward to the Beserel; Nows, The Tribune will join it in demanding that tbe showing be made. And again we trust that the News will reciprocally demand that a complete showing of the tithe fund be made to the satisfaction of The Tribune. Inasmuch as the News hasyokcd these two together, let them sta' together, and let a complete, public pub-lic and satisfactory showing be made of both, complete, comprehensive, illuminating, il-luminating, in gross and in detail in each case. , |