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Show 1 "Hedging." M i- The .louiual's use of the word H A "Hedging" in leferenee tothls paper's H '( explanation or editorials in which we M alined to set foith Kastoi n sentiment H '(f on 1'iesldent Smith's testimony and M the Smoot ease, and the ft ah lew of M that testimony edltoilals, the Intent M of which it seems was sadly misiinder- B ' stood -Is wholly a visionary Idea of 1 ' "the oulyVeditotial stall'. B I ''"bis paper Is not hedging, and will H t i ' never "hedge." When It makes a H I mistake, and becomes convinced of m that mistake, Tin: Ki:n'iii.ic.N is m I tiVM to acknowledge that mistake and H i iakceeiy correction and leslltutlon m H possible- a Halt which "the only" B has never manifested. In oider for BBb ' ( " "explanatory" statement to be in , 'ji theuatuie or "hedging" It must llrst H i'Ib b:M' been neeessaiy ror this paper to Hk y take a stand opposite to that cxpics- H I sedintheexplanatlon IiioUkt words, H ' M c must have taken a stand In op- H 1 1 position to the church and the M ' j chinch's hellers icligiously. That H ' I this paper intended such in the edi- M l lorials icfened 'to is ridiculously H f ahsiiid. Whatever tthu views of the. H . editor ma be, he has been In this Bl j if community long enough to know that V '' jfl a stand against the church or sent I- B 'i B incut of the community would be H p suicidal; and such a stand would ie- H I; -ult disastrously in any community H wheic any chinch predomlnat s i.. H numbers as docs the Mormon church H I ' in tills valley. The Kastern editor H ( could not help but know this roll -cll, H (he worked on the .Journal which has H had a taste or it) and in view or the H t fact that he staid here under very ad- H vc' conditions for several months In H ' order that Tiik Hju'uhmi an should H become the success it now is, and the H further ract that a new lease or the H , i )1:l"t "d the buying or a home by the H ;i ' ! Iirl will keep him here tlncc years K I ', j longer, Ills Idiotic for "the onl)" to f i j 1 assume that It was our deliberate In- !!1 tentlon to an ay Tiik Uki-ohlican ' 4 against the Mormon church. U There Is another feature that tliu peanut-heads on "the only" refuse to consider, but which with thoughtful people will strengthen our assertion that the Idea conveyed was not the Idea Intended, Is thai A MKMHKU OK THIS PI KM IS OK THIS PEOPLE, PEO-PLE, AND HIS KELATIONSSUCH THAT IK PLACED ON THE STAND I1EPOKE THE SENATE COMMITTEE HE WOULD PKOH-AHLV PKOH-AHLV MAKE STATEMENTS THE EQUAL OK PKESIDENT SMITH'S. Personally, the editor knows little of Mr. Turner's family relations, but common report leads to the belief that his lelations aie plural, and we do know that Mr. Turner Is a man who would stick to what he believes is right until hell fieczcs over. Occupying Oc-cupying the position he does berore the people, Is there anyone who can for a minute believe that Mr. Turner, as a member of Tin: Kkvuiimcan linn, would consent for the editorial columns of the paper to bo arrayed against himself and his people? The Idea is ridiculous. Tin: Kki'I'iimcak has not hedged, could not hedge -It has not taken a position riom which it must icccde. Krlcnds of this paper Tailed to under stand an editorial, and to these fi lends we olfeied an explanation. Kor those who aie natuiallyour enemies, there Is no explanation. |