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Show FROTHS ITS OWN DISCREDIT. The News broke forth :igaiu last, night in fierce railing at The Tribune, on the charge that this paper misrepresented misrep-resented President Joseph F. Smith in his remarks at the opening of the April conference, about eleven hundred unapproved un-approved marriages. But. this amounts to the same thing as attacking its own report of President Smith's remarks. For, Tho Tribune copied exactly from the News iis report of what President Smith said. Wc suggested the comment, com-ment, to bo sure, that his remarks were capable of the construction that eleven hundred plural marriages had been cn-tetrcd cn-tetrcd into during the year. Such construction con-struction was clearly admissible from the report which we took from the News. At tho same time, while suggesting sug-gesting tho admissibility of that construction, con-struction, wc expressed our disbelief in it, slatinc that President Smith could not really have meant that. And yet others, taking precisely the same report, construed it emphatically and without qualification as meaning that President Smith admitted the eleven hundred plural marriages within with-in the year. For that construction made by others The Tribune is in no wise responsible. The responsibility for it attaches clearly ajid certainly to the report, of President Smith's address ad-dress as given by the Nows. Tho Tribune had nothing whatever to do with other people's construction of that report printed first in the church organ. or-gan. Others construed it far more unfavorably un-favorably than we did; but, as stated, w: had nothing to do with other people's peo-ple's construction of it. The vilification .of the News is sim. ply the squealing rage of an underling, whoso superiors found fault with tho report made in his paper, and now is endeavoring to take it out of The Tribune. For that, personal fooling The Tribune cares nothing. Jt; has acted fairly and candidly throughout all this matter. It copied tho .News report, it commented upon it as it printed it, giving President Smith the benefit of its opinion that ho could not; have meant what he apparently said, and that is all there is about it. Tho disappointed rage of the News, because its taskmasters haled it on Oho carpet on account of its report, has Rothing to do with us, jind wo rofusc to tako into account, the castigation received by the News from its own friends as a reason why it should be so .idiotically vindictive against Tho Tribune. The News is a yellow .journal .jour-nal of the most pronounced and do-, spicablc sort. Us word is worth nothing noth-ing whatever, its pledges are a joke, its testimony forsworn oven before it. is given, it is so contemptible as to be beneath notice, save as n -willfully vicious hoodlum is to bo noticed bv the corrective punishment which h justly his due. But, for a paper of any pie.tcjisinnf-at pie.tcjisinnf-at all, olid particularly foiy a ""paper whieji is the Argon of a widespread church, to deliberately discredit its own report, and In accuse. The 'jjribunc ol misrepresenting President .loseph P. Siiiith because, wo' printed its' report ol hit address on I he subject under discussion dis-cussion so reckless and mendacious !a -pioco oil-journalistic cvawlishhig thai ; surprise at it niusl quicklyi.Jitell into' j contempt. It's .fbjoct ucss is-- compar able' to nothing solf-rnspeCtingLy hn urn a. ' ,v t |