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Show I j JUST A JOKE. ; j The News is awfully funny when it tries to i i be serious. The way it justifies a manifest collusion i I between the church authorities an dthe Vernal I land authorities to gobble up the good lands of the il Uintah reservation and its simulated mingled grief 1 and indignation, that any should mistrust the per- ' feet integrity of the intended steal, has material ! enough around which to build up a magnificent ' comic opera. As though anything engineered by i Ij the church "within our ecclesiastical jurisdiction" ! i could be wrong. And the idea that anything in j j ( which the church was interested could be so diffi- I cult that the News could not put up a good de- Kf , 1 fense of, is too ridiculous to be considered. And I- I ' A although "our people" are the theme, meaning not ' i 1 the American people, but the people of this other ' kingdom, who could doubt their loyalty or their i 1 1 sincerity? And thus the farce goes on. |