Show THE the editor of the salt lako tribune lias fallen into the grievous error of making comparisons in cases where the facts are strikingly dissimilar and then offering these alleged corn parisina par isona as decisions thia is one of his old methods of invoking precedent and demanding that be rendered according to lie record he devotes three quarters of a col dmn of his valuable space yesterday morning to a slipshod review of the tabernacle square controversy in this city concluding with tho pious hope that a e may all be able to bee that what is right in salt lake cannot be wrong in ogden it his sole effort was to bring us to this he has taken upon himself an on necessary task barring a little local competition in which the capital gets regularly beaten by the junction there is no dispute of any kind least of all on alie general principles of law or equity neither is therein either city a premium on such ignorance of the matter in hand as the tribune editorial displays it trips to draw a parallel be taden the attempt of linck to take possession of arsenal hill salt lake city and the case of the mormon church m holding possession ot tabernacle aclo square in this city the burden of ita argument is that it the city authorities are to be sustained in one cage they should be in the other and with that general proposition which on ian face has a plausible look it drops the main question and winds off the usual tirade about church and state tabernacle aclo square was taken for its present use before the city acquired title to the land at all in tho very bce inning when sago brualdi grew all over what ia now slain street this ten acres was devoted to the purpose which it has ever ance sub served the people for abom it is now held cleared it and they erected upon it the buildings which aie now there it has never cost the city anything for improvement pro in fact it never belonged to the corporation any more alian the other blocks and lota within the town limits title to which was conveyed to the mayor to be in turn transferred by him owners at the time this particular parti calar block was located upon the mormon beet aa the opposition choose to call the possessors might junt as well have taken fifty acres as ten there was plenty of land and it had no market value no one but a editor could see any analogy between tazie facts and the case of aba daml on arsenal hill there never was any other owner or than the city to that property linck and associates socia tes himself a stranger in the territory whatever they may have teen tried to get possession years and rears after hie city had obtained title rom the government and iad decided to bold the property for public purposes ifa bad DO more right to that land than he biad to mayor A homestead in salt lake or to boater bark or mayor Kie aels property in city in one case the city authorities ties want land which belongs to others in the other case tha city owns land Is coveted by others in neither has tha city rights over and above private owners yet in both all their local rights should be malo alie more thia rattler 0 tabernacle a ventilated the better tho case of the cartiea in will appear but we object to having he present city officials of ogden placed on the baene footing and on the earah legal plane as mr john allock et at lately of colorado such comparisons harui a friend 0 the ad inin as the ban Francia oo thinks the pacific coage will justly feel hurt and injured at being ignored in the cabinet it bays in declining to do UK hat act of justice president imarri bon has committed a serious error and one which must militate against the of hig IT HAS been out that by abo turning back of the genalo clock twenty alvo minutes on inauguration daiy cleveland really that length of time without pay and Is consequently entitled to tha of an appropriation of |