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Show THE OI,D MAN GETS RILED. THERE is nothing that hurts so bad as the truth. And yet it is sometimes necessary to speak it, realizing that one is inflicting pain. Our last, shot at the Washington County News for its simpering sim-pering defense of Representative Jos. S. Snow, in his rebuff of the state press, must certainly have gone straight to the mark. In this week's issue, of that paper. Editor Wallis throws his hat into the ring, grows livid in the face and expectorates reeking tobacco juice all over his front page, mak-i ing an awful mess of this ordinarily clean sheet. It must be an awful thing to find one's self in; a position so servile and menial that he dare not say his soul's his own, and be compelled to lick the hand that smites him. But if you try to do any-1 thing for such a paltry creature it is like interfering interfer-ing with a man beating his wife. Nine chances to one the old woman will turn on you with more venom than the abusive husband. However, this is a matter which concerns all the self-respecting newspapers of the state, and we have no regrets for our stand in the matter, which, as we have already al-ready shown, is commended and endorsed by some of the foremost publishers of the state, including the president and secretary of the Utah State Press Association, the president chancing (thru no fault of his own, we are sure) to be a brother to our irate southern neighbor. This is the first time, within our recollection, that we have seen an editor (or would-be editor) evidence so much passion and unreasoning rage towards a memebr of the fraternity. We are certainly cer-tainly very much surprised as his unethical and ungentlemanly conduct. He owes us an apology, which is all the more urgent and imperative by reason of his age, for he is old enough to be over such childish nonsense, and if he is the man we have heretofore believed him to be, he will lose no time in making it. We neither have time, space nor the disposition to waste two or three columns of space in this paper for the purpose of reproducing his pointless and abusive harrangue, as he apparently desires us to do. He submits no arguement or plausible excuse for his attitude, which certainly is not shared by any publisher of standing is the state. The editor of the News is a "bally Henglisn-! Henglisn-! man" who has not got over his early training to pander and palaver to what he considers the gentry, gen-try, and he accepts with a great dial of Kiatitede such crural as fall from their table, and feels him self fortunate to obtain them. If this birth right were not sullicient to quell his self respect, several years service in the English army has implanted "discipline" and servility so deeply in his breast that to see anyone assert himself and contend for what he is rightfully entitled to even criticising the "great moguls" when they trample upon us, raises his indignant ire. Wallis forgets that he is in a free country now, where each man is supposed to be the equal of any other if he makes himself such. And we fear he is suffering from that form of the "sleeping disease" from which there is no awakening. And yet, withal, Editor Wallis is not a bad sort, and he publishes a clean, breezy county paper pa-per He has lost his head in this instance and said a lot of things in a fit of passion that he does not mean, and for which he will later feel ashamed and sorry. He will yet tumble to the fact that we were in reality trying to help and befriend be-friend him against an ungrateful and unwarranted unwarrant-ed thrust from a professed friend- |