Show journalistic HONESTY liberalism is BO 90 liberal that not only endeavors to deprive of the elective franchise who do a believe according to its dictum h assumes to as to what atu believe it is so liberal that it w will permit the mormons cormons Mor mons to be the J or exponents of their own belief te asserts that they believe certain which they repudiate and then oal them liars for stating the facts afy is the course pursued by the 0 t which represents represent controls and ex pream liberalism as it in ia the tribune pretended to quote from ib work which it called prominent doctrines of the church of jesus christ of latter day saints sainted NV ve e had never bover heard of such euch a work and could 1 find nobody else who knew of it now t the tribune says it is a work by orson spencer well that has been known for years as spencers letters and consists of a series of letters written by orson onon spencer who was once a baptist minister to a friend and former minis aerial associate they contain mr N spencers view for which nobody is responsible but the writer we believe the purpose of the tribune la in giving such a title was to prevent comparison of its alleged quotations with the text of the book we sug rested that possibly the tribune had bad garbled the language or omitted something that would explain the context on oil learning what the book is and making a comparison we find that we were right in pretending to quote from the book the tribune stopped at a vita point in a sentence and inte intentionally n tio nally omitted its concluding wor words Js which are for or the t scriptures declare are taw there is no power whish is not of CW the purpose of the tribune une was to make it appear that the mormons cormons Mor mons do not recognize the right and authority of civil magistrates and civil gov emmentt em orn ments and to do so had to omit the words we have placed in italics this to in common mon tribune duplicity some almee it boldly credits a speaker or writer wr lter with language age he rever never uttered pred at others it quotes quote part of a sentence leaving out the qualifying remainder 4 all of which to is very liberal and very honorable of course the tribune I 1 is s exceedingly mad jut about another paper having secured some information intended for its own columns and uses this gentlemanly un language guage it is rare indeed that any any newspaper himself in the public man wa would duld put y as an a thief as the scoundrel who was of the above was waa willing to do our thought on reading this wm wap not so go rare indeed for the tribune has won seen guilty 0 of f equal methods and L wone wom again and again for years it ban published private and personal let urn said odd to have been found on the street ta concocted oth others ere to suit its pur PO pose changed the language of public won men so 80 as to convey the opposite of j weir their meaning I 1 garbled misquoted WK re made up half sentences and generally 3 pilloried itself as guilty of all it charges upon others and a great deal more 11 aa to the present issue we have V quoted from the standards 0 of f the mor imor won mon faith what to is the recognized belief of the latter day saints sainta in regard to civil law and civil government and we do not care what individual may have expressed views which the tribune has interpreted as contradicting them that which is authoritative stands as coeds and that which is merely personal opinion is taken simply tor for what it is worth we know what is the doctrine of the church and what is the established faith of the latter day saints the editor of the tribune has never known what itis it is arhe or he has purposely and persistently misrepresented it with malice and aforethought for y years ears when he came here he was stuffed as others have been with anti mormon stories and what he lias has read has been viewed in the baleful light of anti mormon defamation and hatred therefore he sets forth as mormon belief and mormon practice stuff that the mormon people have never adopted and so what few of them see am or hear bear of his nonsense either pity him for his ignorance or despise him for his mendacity the NEWS entertains both these sentiments in about equal parte |