Show A CASK CASE OP OF DEMENTIA A FEW days ago we replied to an article which appeared in the san ban francisco call in reference to financial methods in utah the call had been misled by bv the falsehoods of the salt lake tribune and we knocked the bottom out of its basket of deceptions this morning a full tribune column of the froth of inebriety was wa S poured out upon the NEWS it is the most insane of all the idiotic ef fusions that have appeared occasionally dur ins ing tine the past few weeks from the pencil of the subordinate scribe whose brain infirmities with the cause are reflected in his countenance the chief point in our dispute with thu the call was the alleged wrong of counties in utah paying a smaller smalle r amount ot at taxes baxes than some others receiving a proportionately larger amount of aid from the school appropriation pria tion we showed that the principle on which the school fund was distributed was in proportion to the school population in each district and that in some cases the number of children of school age was greater in a county that had a small amount of taxable property than in another with a large amount therefore there was bothin nothing wrong or crooked or rough ll which were the expressions of the call in the transaction but grantin granting the figures it quoted the principle being being correct the distribution was proper and we showed further thatis that if a complete I 1 free school I 1 system by taxation were established in utah the apparent discrepancy between the amount of taxes paid and the amount of school f funds received in some co unties counties would of necessity be still greater the tribune objects to our answering the call and not replying to the tribune from which the call received its ita information the reason is because we prefer controversy with a respectable spec table journal to parleying parl eying with a black blackguard also the fallacy of the tribune ravings was patent to peo pie here but may not have been perceived b bv papers at a distance that akere there is nothing improper in the principle on which the school f und fund is distributed although some counties may receive more than they pay in taxes can be clearly understood by those who want to see and who do not wish to misrepresent take two counties as an example one an old county with large business interests the property of whick is valuable the other a more recently settled locality with no large manufacturing mi mining nan or commercial establishments and whose property is therefore of small comparative value and yet the number of its children of school age is comparatively greater than that of the richer acner county it will naturally follow that its receipts f from rom the school und fund f will be comparatively greater than those of the other and may be in excess of the whole amount of its taxes because the appropriation r lation is not made according to the va value I 1 ue of property but according to the se school h ool population this illustrates t the h e facts in the case and disposes of the charge of robbing crookedness aad others that are maintained in a medley of confused and befuddled sentences in the tribune which betray the condition of the writer who makes no attempt at reply to our argument and seeing that the business manager has been brought into this matter we suggest to the manager lanager of the tribune that he be read the article of this morning to which we have alluded and in future f it if that writer has to perform the duty of abusing the NEWS that wet bandages be provided unless it has been previously ascertained that the scribe has s sobered off softening of the brain has evidently set in and a new hand will soon have to fling foul names and sling sophistry at local contemporaries por aries |