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Show PERVERTED QUOTATION. I .In discussing the forosfation sentiment senti-ment in this countrv in an editorial on March JiJst, The Tribune made use of this expression: The fact Ik that there are no forests In Utah that arc In the loast worth preserving. preserv-ing. The Smoot "Mouth copies this aud then changes it so as to read as follows: fol-lows: But don't forsci that Thi Tribune said THERE IS NO TIMBER IX TtlE STATE WOHTFI PRESERVING. , That is really rather a mild perversion perver-sion for the Smoot "Mouth," Usually it attributes to The Tribune something that The Tribune has never said, some sentiment perverted to its own ends, some little mud bnllt manufactured for the occasion and put up on a toe so that the driver can get a good fair whack at "it. The man who can find forests in Utah that are worth preserving would deserve a premium. The man who can find some timber in Utnh that- can be used need not go -far to seek it. There is some timber in Utah, of course, but there are no forests and never were Usually, too, the timber that there is in Utah is not timber of any great value. Jt is mostb' knotty fir: and it would be ver3' hard to get much timber tim-ber in un3 accessible place for use in an3r indtiBtr.y or for 3113' general purpose pur-pose in this State. Practically all of the wood used for buildings, for mine timbers, tim-bers, and for anything beyond the most primitive uses, is timber brought iu mostlj- from the coast. The, "Mouth" says that our statement state-ment as above quoted "will conic back to plague The Tribune man3' a time." Wo do not think so. Wo think, on tho contrary, that Iht statement -will be gchornlly agreed to by anvbodj' who knows anything about treo growth in this State. And :in3,vny wo do not object in the least to an3 alnlcmont that wc make being brought back to "plague" us, if any one thinks ho can "plague" us thereby. The only thing wo insist upon in this connection connec-tion is thar. he shall quote what wc ourselves say, and not what soraeboiiy else snys wc said. Thore is often a very marked difference bctwocu the two, and we wish the distinction always al-ways to be preserved. |
