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Show SOME GATES AJAR. When fire threatened the complete destruction of the Tribune plant a few days ago, the public waited anxiously the verdict of Editor Penrose upon the affair, under the belief that he would look upon it as the visitation of an outraged Providence and as one of those signs of the times which the Bible refers to as heralding the ushering usher-ing in of the last dispensation, in which the Prophet Pro-phet Joseph F. Smith Is the man at the wheel. But the editor-apostle was strangely lenient, and did not intimate even by inuendo that the damage dam-age to the Tribune was a direct retribution for the attacks in the Gentile paper upon the lowly collector of the ten per cent. That in itself was sufficiently astounding, but the dear public was cataleptic with surprise when it was learned that ifll the Gentile paper was to be issued from the H presses of the Lord's organ. How a Cannon edi- Hj torial or one of those hair-curling Tribune cartoons can go calmly through a Deseret News press with- JJ out' even disarranging a sprocket is something ll which the mind not gifted with celestial brilliancy jH is unable to grasp. For the organ of the "ene- mies" of the Lord to be handled by a faithful -H News- compositor is awful enough, but the public -H is positively stunned at the thought of the hated Gentile paper being issued from Mormon presses with the approval of the First Presidency and 'H passed out to an astonished world under the very ' 'H drippings- of the sanctuary. Is it possible that the future holds for the world the inspiring spectacle of Editor Penrose and Colonel. Nelson frenziedly jB writing editorials in the same room, violently ex- iB pectorating into the same cuspidor, and indulging !B in the amcnites of borrowing each from the other jB his fountain pen? |