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Show IN TEBEOH "OF INVESTIGATION. The Deseret News last night went wild in frantic rago over Tho Tribune's proposition to have an investigation of tho crookedness in count3' affairs, the wastiu of public money, and tho diversion di-version of taxatiou raised for public purposes to personal and political ends. Tn its froth against the investigation, the News raked up a lot of its old lies against tho cit3 and then claimed that the $20,000 spent on special .auditors was without benefit to tho cit-, aud questions whether tho . moucy was honestly earned. Tho News also chews over its old proposition against the transfer of money from one fund to another, an-other, c-videntb" not understanding in the least now any more than when it made its first silly charge about it, that these? transfers are perfee.tlj-straightforwari! perfee.tlj-straightforwari! and legal; in fact, are necessary in order to preserve tho integrity in-tegrity of the special funds created bv law. It always makes the News frantic to h;ar any one suggest an investigation of county affairs, and tin's is quite natural, because the News was the beneficiary of a forgc- on the. assessment assess-ment roll more than twelve years ago, ' through which the assessment on ita plant was cut down ilO.OOO. Naturally the News docs not wunt any investi- j gation of that crime. And it would I hato the worst way to have to make good to the public the monc3- that the '. I public was swindled out of by that j forgery. There is nothing so rasping ' on the raw to tho beneficiary of a crime as an intimation that ho may bo culled upon to makfi good the mono3 that he has swindled the ccunt3' out of b3 the crime through which he benefited. bene-fited. And that is precise' the situation situa-tion of the Dnseret News todnj'. It dreads above everything oIsg in the world an investigation of county affairs af-fairs that will disclose officially the ; forgor3- referred to, and tho amount that the News compau3' has swindled the public out of through lhat forgery. But tho public maj- rest assnrod thai with the triumph of tho American party (nr2 the American party is going go-ing to triumph), not only tho News, but fivery other criminally favored church schemer that was the beneficiary of that forgor' will bo compelled to make good to the utmost farthing, so far as tho law will enable tho officials to enforce justico and make good on the swindle upon tho public which had its origin in that forgor3'. It is perfectly right nnd proper that tho Desorot Nows almillr! rt-.- tli.t ',...1. (1.,. f $10,000 which tho crimo referred to al-lowod al-lowod it to dodge. The Z. C. M. I. also was a boncficiarj' of that fcrger3"tc tho amount of $100,000. Thero is no reason in the world why the Z. C. M. I. should not inako good to tho public the money that it has thus choatod tho public out si for theso past twelve years. If tho law car. bo mado to sorvo j tho purpose, tho Deseret News and Z. C, M. I., and all other beneficiaries of that forgery will certainly bo compelled com-pelled to pay intr. the- ccunty treasury tho amount out of which the- have swindled that treasury heretofore. And the p';ril thnt thoy maj- have lo do this is what exorcises the Nows nnd puts it into such a froth of rage whenever there is talk of invcpMgnting tho crookedness in ccunty affairs. |