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Show for a cvdi consideration, endeavor to settle all disagreements of whatever what-ever name or nature, in a permanent perma-nent manner, without smutting the column; of a respectable journal with such things. The newspaper that takes people's money, and then fills its columns with dirty hits, against citizens the 1 proprietors personally dislike, or; who may have stepped on their bur'- j iness corn, simply exhibit to the j coldly philosophical eye of the public pub-lic their total unfitness for the high position they have assumed. In sifting the matter to the bottom it will generally be found that the paper that determinedly and un-scruoulouslv un-scruoulouslv thrusts a controversy , m "NOT HONOU.U'.U:." For a long time alter tiie estab- lisTiment of newspapers, their col- umns were devoted only to the broadest and most public questions. Only such things as affected whole - ' , nations, politically, financially, or ; socially.were considered of sufficient j importance to find space in news-' . -, ' papers through the laborious processes pro-cesses then in vogue. As machinery improved, and papers multiplied, , they gradually spread their circle of admissible subjects until promi- on to another.lias nothing to lose in the matter, having neither reputation nor business. Their articles are often an insult to the community at large by the bold presumption that an intelligent common wealth are interested in their petty follies. Where is the man with a soul or ambition above a digger Indian that cares to give money year after year to a concern that is proud of being a vehicle of scandal, who cannot speak to commend John, without sluring George? Such papers will be found resorting to all manner of questionable methods and crying wolf! wolf! to divert attention. ' nent men, as well as princess and potentates, were commented upon; 4 the affairs of States, Counties, citiesjand even towns, were consider-; consider-; ed worthy to be retailed to the public; until in our day, there is a ' great and growing tendency ' among newspapers, to invade the sacred circle of the fire side, the thrice sacred temple of private character and smirch with venemous pen what they could never make clean again even though convinced con-vinced that their attaaks were un-just un-just and their hastily formed opin- - ions incorrect. ' There are a class of questions - .' that every well regulated newspaper if it is alive to its duties, willj take up and discuss, even when to do so, a name must be drawn into the con- troversy. The case at Nephi, recently, re-cently, is a case in point. If any man attempts to trample on the rights of the people in any way, it it the moral wbligation of the local press to expose the matter, giving v th facts, without venom, animated J by a spirit of sevices to its support- , ers, and not by a desire to pull dowa and ruin an individual. ' The moment the wrong has been rectified the paper should be as ready to defend that same individual individ-ual when he is right, as to condemn ' him when wrong. There are laws framed to limit ' the sphere of newspapers, defining what they shall and shall net print, stating the penalties that shall at- : tach to each offense, and they are v severe enoug'ijbut like many other laws, surro inding circumstances 1 nuke them difficult of access and not altogether satisfactory when J - evoked, and a decision rendered for the libeled or slandered. Yet these laws are so poorly framed j that a partisan Judge or an ignorant ( or predjudiced jury, can so hamper an honest worker that, needed re- forms, may not be named, "slick" I 1 men who menace the very founda- 1 ' ... tions of society may not have the at-lention at-lention of the public directed to ' their methods because, forsooth, if it injures a man's "business" it is a ' libel, even If it is rue, an example ' of this kind was given to the public ' tn the columns of the Utonion, of a deputy marshal Thompson's conduct ' toward a young lady; where the jury declared the editor innocent, and the case being laid over until an- other term the business manager ' was declared, by a new jury, guilty. ' On the other hand a person who for private reasons, or business rea- 30ns, is made the special object of malicious attack, a thousand sar- i tasmsj virulent falsehoods, and insulting insinuations have been placed before the . readers of the journal, before the, one thing ap-1 ap-1 pears that makes it possible for the law to be called upon for defense. If he is a man of any refinment of feeling in bringing it before the Courts and seeing all the pro:ce lings warped, twisted and garbled as they 1 are sure to be by a paoer tali t could ' bs guilty of the first ff;nse;l e feels, even when financially r.-;miuirscd like he had put a mustard plaster on i burn to draw the fire out; while the maligner is so greedy of notoriety noto-riety that he often glories in his own shame, and findi satisfaction unspeakable un-speakable in being the center of attraction even as Quiteau, courting it at the price of wanton cruelty and dishonor. . , i Thus the law, while intending to : be perfectly just, is as far from being be-ing able to keep mistaken, incompetent, incompe-tent, or wicked journalists in their proper place, as the law against (theiving is to prevent theft; or the davr against adultery is, to prevent ' .treacherous men from violating , w chastity, - There it a law, however, ..that sooner or later comes to the rescue .of those who keep strictly within the limits of elevated, honest jour-'iialistn; jour-'iialistn; that is the law of public opinion. The public may be deceived de-ceived for a while, but iU opinion is crushing in its effects when at last the mask of truth is torn from the face of falsehood, merciless as an avalanche in redeeming its insulted dignity. j There is less need for the people! of the Latter-day Saints to I 1 engage in newspaper controversies, than any people in the world, and especially of a petty or personal na ture. All such matters may be di-fectly di-fectly appealed, to good, disinterested, disinter-ested, friends of all honest workers; where without money and without price, the matter may be adjudicated adjudicat-ed if not sufficiently important for this, it certainly dos not deserve i the dignity of type. If the decision H not satisfactory, or if the contend- ir.g. parties are one or both out of ""'Vj,exhttrch, there are the courts of itpirigauts, who will, |