| Show A DUTY BUT in the absence of a real and tangible news item with sensational features with which to render their c columns readable there is a class of pen drivers in and around the community who have the habit of sitting down and cudgelling cud gelling cut of their poor brains wholly imaginary conditions and occurrences curren curr encee ces the these generally being we need hardly say covert allusions to or direct assertions concerning the mormon church or its leaders of course it is seldom deemed necessary to notice such stuff frequently it cannot be touched at all without loss of dignity on the part qc q those assailed in occasional instances however duty requires that the honest but unwary reader be warned against falsehood and that denials or contradictions be given publicity all sorts of stories are started and put in circulation and i idle sow grow into great things it therefore happens that while many of these sensations are allowed to pass by once in a while a statement by way of dental denial or explanation is printed A recent instance is the publication of a story to the effect that president woodruff as trustee in trust tor for the church of jesus christ of latter day dar saints had officially endorsed and guaranteed some four and a halt half millions of bonds of the union elea electric light power co and therefore to that extent had jeopardized the property of the choch chach both he salt lake morning papers today reproduced the story but with it they both also publish emphatic dent denial this appears to the news to be IL a sufficient allusion to the matter la in these columns except the assurance quite needless unless some anxious soul may perhaps have been losing sleep over the fear of jeopardy to t church interests and property that there to is not the slightest lightest occasion for any such fear whatever |
