Deseret Evening News | 1890-05-12 | Page 2 | Symptoms of Surrender

SYMPTOMS OF JsURKE-NDER. A lkadinq "Liberal" journal has tlie temerity to criticise the City Council for some of its recent transactions which have tho appearance appear-ance of Jobbery. It showed a good deal of backbone, In charging alleged al-leged corruption against ofli-cials ofli-cials of its own irty. Jfow there are symptoms, in tho shape of sickly Jokes, of a weakening of the journali'tic spinal column. Tho latest allu'ioa in point appeared in the japer referred to this morning. With a humor so sickly as to almost render it pathetic, it announced, not altjgtbrr hilariously, that in future criticisms of tho City Council Coun-cil it w ould probably use the Russian Rus-sian language. The objects of the animadversions would, in that case, remain In Ignorance of tho fact that their conduct was being called in question.