Show THE ABSURDITY OF IT it is simply absurd for any aadi to claim because heis and has been a liberal patron of any given newspaper as a business man and a private citizen that therefore his public acas as a public official should not bo criticized by the paper so patronized upon this hypothesis po thesis embezzlers and rogues and villains of every de would only need to pat liberally all the newspapers in any given neighborhood where th ey welo operating in order toca cape public ata the hands of the press f there is a class of very worthy individuals in utah who imagine they arcand have been liberal patrons of certain newspapers that therefore the eaid newspapers are their personal tools ih other words these would make themselves greater than a newspaper representing eternal and a large pars ty the absurdity of such a pus r lion is loo palpable to need extended the is the ve representative of the peoples par ty it is proud of the privilege of defending the mormon faith and th coia of Utah to jhc thc peopled mor 16 t t mon people it holds itself strictly is indeed h individual but it is no I 1 individual acl sai editor capacity he is governed exclusively by the voice of the party and the majority of the people which the OGDEN HERALD represents the moment ho faias to be so governed tie will be compelled to cither resign his position or change his course so that it will meet the approval of the peoples party and tile majority of the people of this rity it takes a experience and con considerable tact in gagging public fill thy po of an of a representative newspapers satisfactorily and ably in crisis and such an editor midst entirely discard his individuality and gecomo the honest of hla party and tho people whose Benti menta he is bound to voice and whose rights and principles io is bond toa defend ll the editor of the understands exactly the nature of his position and he h adi himself strictly account able tit the party and the principles clithe hut ALP represents from nil the ranks and elates constituency of this paper both hig hafid low to indicate that the editorial course of the ia cordially approved by alfo party which its save only tho few chronic upon their own belt assumed importance to desire to dictate through our columns to the entire mormon church and the party the iBon nent that such approval is wanting we will change our policy and our course BO as to meet that approval or we will resign As nu individual the editor of the HERALD lias been subjected to personal vilification studious abue brutal assaults and menaces of all borts from threats of boycotting to covert insinuation tho hands of anti mormon papera and individuals onay because he M editor of the has defended the righta of the murman people ith vigor and fidelity the anti borni oni inive every t fiort to induce or compel him to they havo tried to intimidate by afif x 1 i i i i ia i iland their power to and mate his discharge but he has continued to do the best lie could and us au adi tur he still survives and thrives and by the grace of god he avill continue ao to do until the last of the enemies of the mormon church and people are forever consigned to silence and oblivion |