| Show A LITTLE TOO CAPTIOUS wn WE find in tho the utah journal of september the iol lol following lowing inquiry addressed a edw sed bed spoof epe ally aily to the 1 deseret elm emm IE wa Is it not a violation of journalistic comity to reproduce from on an ex change original news or other matter which has been obtained and published at the expense of journal la in which it first crad ap appears peare the reason for asking this thia question appears to be that in our daily daliy of tho the esth dinst we failed to give credit to the journal for the little fieldsmith field smith correspondence w which ani been reproduced from its columns the journal proceed proceeds ci to hay feay I 1 hia athia hla 13 la 13 tho the second time the ars ard has hab ha bame thing thinking the first an inadvertence we paid no attention to it but bat the care which i seems booms to have been taken the ceo beo ond time to avoid all reference to the tha journal in connection with the correspondence reproduced from its columns has suggested thu the above query a tho the utah journal Is a little toot captions captious it la Is one of the last pal 1 pers pera that should complain about so a simple a matter we have noted in 0 its ita columns many times arti articles cles cies that have been taken or adapted it from the des nes deseret NEWS and beve bave ral sermons for this which have been copied into the f journal burnal 7 without attempt at credit also local items which first ap feared in this paper and suase found their way into another havear have appeared ared in the journal with credit ge to the paper through which they have been filtered but we made no public complaint of this arid think that it if the journal had I 1 any real occasion to feel aggrieved A its vexation might t havo have found vent n another way i but let us see how much truth there la Is in the grumbling of our northern neighbor for we do not pretend to claim that its errors are any excuse for our wrong doing 1 in looking over the nnie nile of the NEWS we find that the first journal letter from I 1 0 littlefiled Little fled which appeared in our columns wag was on may ath for which du due a cred credit I 1 t was wab div given en S at t b the endom the letter and we said editorially we reprint tod today to d day ay an open letter to certain josephites Josephl tes tea written by byj 1 brother L 0 littlefield lf and pub dished in the utah journal of april the next that appeared was on june ad when a reply was publish ed and another letter from brother littlefield in each of these letters the utah journal Is mentioned showing that the correspondence was originally in that paper un tn august ath appeared further correspondence from the same writers with 69 utah journal To added at the close on the of september we noticed editorially the whole correspondence pon dence between the parties in these we considered tuo tho position tak ou els iff lir liy chuum 0 in his correspondence ilith mr smith which we reproduced from the columns of the utah journal ro giving both aides of the controversy had been established beyond reason able doubt one we gave our read erb ere the letters which had but a few days before before belore appeared in theT buynar butnar and marked due credit in the copy which was waa overlooked by the proofreader proof reader or utah journal i would have appeared as before so bo there Is juat one occasion in which thenamae the name of the highly sensitive organ of cache valley was not duly heralded as the first paper in which some letters appeared how much haa has it been i jurod by the unintentional omission the burnaZ burnar 7 t cackle quite so much be cause it really lay jay those literary egge eggs the tha only effort on the part of our contemporary was putting now it we had felt any disposition to rob the journal of the least ray of its glory or a line of its original matter we should not have called attention so BO repeatedly to the fact that this littlefield smith correspondence was taken from its columns column and the insinuation that care seems beems to hava havo been taken to avoid all reference to the journal is 43 a little too near bearing false faise witness against its neighbor to give the journal that elevated tone which we know its projectors desire it 16 to maintain have no to cross swords with our friends however ill ed A a touch of dyspepsia may have made them for a moment but we are too careful on the tho score of giving credit to contemporaries and honor dishonor to whom honor to allow this unjust attack to pass unnoticed if all our country contemporaries were as ae particular as aa the deseret NEWS NEW to name the sources of their information there would ba belittle little cause for compi complaint aint as to proper credit 2 |
