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Show WITH HAMLET LEFT OUT. Some days ago the Dcscret News renewed re-newed on its own account, using as a text a quotation from a Salt Lako weekly, its plea that the priesthood should bo left undisturbed tb run things in this region as they like. Tho News, as usual, wished to avoid any chance of giving aivy one a hold on tho church by way of pledges, agreements, or anything of that kind, whereby later on' if the church did not keep faith .. 11 J. Zl 1.1 as ic sureiy woum holj ii. nuum uncharged un-charged .with bad faith and dishonor. Tho News instinctively in that acknowledges ack-nowledges tho probabilil3' that the church would not keep faith, no matter what it agreed to, and so it didn't want tho church to bo tied up with any pledge or promise. Noting this sneaking sneak-ing evasion of tho News, tho Logan .ro'urnal comments lipon it in tho following fol-lowing manner, under tho title, "Reckoning "Reck-oning Without tho Host." The Deserot News approves of an editorial edi-torial that appeared In the Sunday Times, wherein it said: "Would It not hcfa blessing for every man, woman and child In Utah If In this crisis some other .would como forward and accomplish In the political po-litical world what Fisher Harris accomplished accom-plished In business and Industrial circles." cir-cles." The News, however, dissents from the view expressed by the Times as to the best method of bringing about the tnuch-to-be-dcslrcd consummation, which Involved In-volved a' conference between representatives representa-tives of the church, the Republican, the Democratic and the American parly, and In this connection remarks: "Would It not be 'better to leave the church entirely out. since the church Is not a political factor, and claims no political po-litical influence, except that which its mombers can lawfully exercise as Individuals Indi-viduals and Amorlcun citizens." In return the Times may ask. wouldn't this resemble that form of liquidation known as "settling without tho host?" "Which shows clearly that our Logan contemporary has not only the News, but tho whole situation hero sized up just about right. |