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Show H Such A Natural Tone THE following extract is from an editorial in the Portland Oregonian: H Mr. Dan McWhitney has written a letter 1 to his home newspaper, the Missoula, Mont., H Sentinel. Mr. McWjhitney writes from Calgary, H Alberta, after having made a tour of California, H Oregon and Washington. What Mr. McWhitney H discovered in the three Pacific coast stated caused H him to shudder, 'nured as he is to chilling influ- wM ences by the biting frosts of Montana and Can- 1 ada winters. H We learn from this veracious traveler that in M Los Angeles moral conditions are abominable; H that San Francisco is ruled by the underworld, H that Seattle is overstocked with thugs who were H reared there, and that Portland is the most dan- H gerous place of all because it "is the most hypo- H critical." In short, "the entire Pacific Coast is H reeking with immortality." H The above has a most suspicious look, a most H familiar sound. It will be noted that the indict- H ment of the Pacific coast states comes from Al- H berta, and it is fair to presume that a few copies H of the Deseret News are circulated in that H region of cool breezes and rest for polygamists. H The suspicion is natural that this Mr. McWhitney H is a plagarist; that he has never been in any H Pacific coast state, but has adopted those states H as a field upon which he can pour out the venom H which the Deseret News has been unloading on H this City and its government for the past six H years. Hflj He does not state how long he was in making H his western tour, but to take his word for it, he JM had time to explore the under world in all those H' western states. H As he saw nothing else, the inference would H be natural that he sought out what he enjoys H most; but the other suspicion that he has never H been in either of thoso states is the most natural one; that he is a natural, cowardly liar, and that he has found in the Deseret News up in Alberta cho exqct style of literature which expresses his thought, and that he appropriates it without scruple, knowing instinctively that the possessor of that stylo must be if possible a bigger liar than he himself is. Our belief is that a very little detective work of even the clumsiest kind would establish that the above suspicions are true. |