| Show WHAT THE NEWS HAS BEEN AND IS When this appears in print the ta taxpayers payers of the town will ivill be voting whether the they are arc to have more in bonds secured for the improvement of the city or not While the result is undecided it is is not Dot out of place to review the fight made against the bonds We Ve do not care very much for the Cranes the Tuttles the Josephs the Booths the Halls Ralls the and the rest who have opposed them We Ye Wedo Wedo Yedo do not care very ery much about the echo of the News Newson on West Temple street because that was established for the very purpose of getting in the way of progress progress progress pro pro- gress and the transformation of Salt Lake City to a modern city But the part the Deseret News has bas played has hs been despicable beyond description We can ean imagine the editor of the News going into confession confession confession con con- with his own soul soul soul-if if he has a soul soul and and reviewing reviewing reviewing re re- re- re viewing his part of the business We can imagine him in the secrecy of his own sanctum soliloquizing about as follows The News has been published for more than half halfa a century It has been supported by the money of slaves What it has done to put its band on the brains of an innocent and honest people no mathematician mathematician can compute It has been the organ of the church church and and such a church it has shrunk from rom no requirement placed upon it For more than fort forty years ears it either condoned or justified every steal made by the chief priests of this kingdom and the number of them would be something appalling to the honest man could he see It stood b by when little children were dying by the score because of breathing foul dust made in the streets It never raised its hand to help them rather it fought back every proposition to tomake tomake make the needed sanitary improvements of the city in the interest of the health of its people When Gentiles Gentiles Gentiles Gen Gen- tiles came here in force it saw their taxes put at double the taxes of Mormons and at least by its silence it approved of the steal There is not a line linein linein linein in all its volumes appealing to the city authorities to tomake tomake tomake make Salt Lake City decent and to draw a reasonable shield of protection around its people It never advocated advocated advocated ad ad- a sewer or the sprinkling of a street or the laying of a sidewalk or the paving of a street When the people of the north and east benches were perishing perishing perishing perish perish- ing for water all the comfort it extended to them was that they were not entitled to water The utter in inefficiency inefficiency inefficiency in- in efficiency of the fire department it never complained of The of the thc police department and the composed most of the thc force never had a reproof rather after the committing of a murder it praised the force for their courage and loyalty It never had one word for the poor of the cit city and its own srn people When the first American administration went into power it combined with the sheriffs sheriff's office and the count county attorneys attorney's office to bring disgrace upon the American party part if it could When an innocent inno cent man IDan was selected to be persecuted that capital might be made against the party through him and when thieves and thugs and bunco and confessed confessed confessed con con- criminals of all degrees after being coached made their assault upon this man it assumed that the theman theman theman man was guilty and tried and convicted him in its columns every da day for months And now on this proposition of the bonds every e day for weeks it has been assailing a set of officers against whom there is not one reproach treating them as though they were thieves impugning their motives deriding their acts deliberately y accusing thc them of graft and anil malfeasance and assa assailing ling the names of men the latchets of whose shoes it has not been worthy for one moment to un un- loose And it has assumed all the time that it is really in Savor favor of needed improvements but fearful if the thc effort is made to make them that will be squandered This sheet that for forty years was a menace menace to the thc prosperity and advancement of Salt Lake City Cit has assumed the tho place of a sorrowful mentor anxious only for the prosperity of the city and grieved to death in advance ance over the prospective prospective prospective tive robbery of the people All the time too it has been as cowardly as it has been false as craven as it has been vicious as depraved as it has been apparently apparently appa appa- solicitous for the welfare of the city and its people and to carry out its double role it has shrunk from no falsehood no misrepresentation no abuse and altogether has made up a char character ter which could it be portrayed in a painting would cause eyer every man in the city with human instincts to shade his eyes ees as he passed it The rho anxiety this afternoon is to know whether it has still any influence over oyer its deluded people who al altheir all their lives Jives have believed it was vas the real organ of the Lord and that it is but right to obey its mandates Whatever the result of the thc election may be bo the part 1 the he News has borne in it should never be forgotten for in its mali malignity nit and its hate and its utter falseness false ness and virulence nce it all the thc time has assumed to be a friend of the city and of or the poor people in iu the tho city I who vho are arc exulting in the present prosperity and who be ue glad to sec see it continue Whether hether the result of the election today will be a triumph for the right or whether it will be 10 a notice served on all the outside country about here that Salt Lake City does not wish any an advancement the position I lion ion that the News has occupied can never be for for- for I gotten It has been infamous beyond description so so base is it in its cowardice so malignant is it in its hate so false a friend to the Mormon people so inject abject a slave is it to the men inca who are determined that hat this city eity shall never ne advance until from that advancement advancement advancement ad ad- they can draw quite 10 per cent in tithing |
