Show SUNDAY BASE BALL CONTINUED the deseret news editor is a strange 4 piece of humanity it we are to judge by hla latest outbreaks in condemnation of the standards position on sun day recreation in ogden and sunday desecration at the whisky resorts out al 31 side ogdan however fair in argument jr we endeavor to be his replies are al sp ways boorish and strongly suggestive Q of too long association with the editor of the salt lake tribune another ranting coarse intolerant writer who can sing a sweet lullaby and without warning fly oft into a tirade of low in vec tives and then flatter himself with having caused some one to fear his pen the news leaving argument alde cealma that the standard has dented its position which wa deny this paper has not charged the news with acts of commission la support of sunday desecration but by its failure to condemn in specific terms and with the same enthusiasm it gave the opposition to sunday base ball in ogden the selling ol 01 liquor at Salta lr Garil eld beach and lagoon the news has by an act ot omission signally tailed to perform a great duty and haa indirectly encouraged a vicious practice the news roust confess it Is a most impotent affair it it assumes to say tl has vigorously and faithfully labored against the sunday liquor resorts for those places of vice continue to nourish and with the closing of other of amusement where liquor cannot be had they will out and embrace more victims and turn moro young souls downward on the road to worldly degradation it to celestial banishment than the pro of comparatively innocent sunday amusement can ever to win back to the paths of righteousness however good may be their intentions the news questions the veracity the standard and this Is the way in which it does eo deseret news june 10 latter day saints who have my respect for their religion will not patronize sun day exhibitions and games of any kind at any place deseret N e w s june 21 when those who support baso ball games on sunday try to make it appear that the news argues on religious grounds they simply go outside tho truth and show that their own position Is untenable it will be observed that the news on june 10 exhorted its readers on purely religious grounds to oppose and discourage sunday base ball on june 24 replying to the standard the news denies that it ever did anything 0 the kind and then turns on the standard with the language and of a fish huckster an asserts that our position Is that of a charity prompts us to have patience with such a misguided and bad tempered writer |