Show t j MOTIVES r The majority of people in this world I i are actuated by motives of one kind or I another and if their object is honorable r and worthy so will their motives be But p if men simulate a noble object behind I 1 r which lurks the base lowborn object I t the motives which prompt the simulated I virtue are of the meanest and most con i tdmptible nature if was impossible to resist such reflections upon picking up 1 i Sundays Tribune this morning and reading read-ing its long labored and hypocritical 1 article entitled What Must Be It speaks in terms of illconcealed contempt of a number of leading Democrats here i who have asked if report speaks truly for the appointment of Mr John A Mart Mar-t shall as District Attorney for Utah as LL the awkward Democratic squad and the Descrel News are both working to oust District Attorney Dickson The first crowd are trying to prove that some one else might be just as good a Prosecuting i Attorney etc Such are the terms in which this selfstyled champion of America Amer-ica and American ideas speaks of gentlemen gentle-men who were in Utah long years before t the editor of the Tribune crossed the Sierras to battle for his country and freedom f free-dom after the war was over and peace reigned But these gentlemen are too well known in the community their I position is too well assured to heed so base an insinuation from such a source i Following this insinuation the Tribune f I says Tho DKMOOBAT the organ of the outs i who want to be ins after admitting that 39 Mr Dickson is a perfect prosecuting attorney I attor-ney to prove that soma ono else would be probably just as capable recalls the fact Ji I which it calls an important fact that the law is not a party question while as to the enforcement of it it is neither a Republican I nor Democratic measure I After this comes a kind of prophetic vision of what President Cleveland would say in view of all the facts such a prophetic pro-phetic vision as readers of the Tribune 1 arc so familiar with and so sick of and then comes this Of course this would not suit and hence we may put down the nice words as having been printed merely for taffy j Surely our words which are quoted by the Tribune speak for themselves and t arc not in want of any justification by us 1 and the only ground upon which the Tribune Tri-bune can term them taffy is the fact that its own praise is i always taffy and given for sinister motives After making the above comment the i Tribune gives a lot more of its inane 1 verbiage and then has this Take the case of Mr Dioksou for instance in-stance Speaking of him the DEMOCRAT 1 says This muoh we can say that during Mr Dicksons occupancy of the office ho has I filled it ably honestly and honorably and I I has done more to vindicate the laws than nIl I his predecessors put together Various of I his predecessors made spasmodic efforts to do something towards enforcing the laws but usually with the same result of failure failure that was either owing to the fact that 1 they were incompetent or dishonestwhich we do not undertake to sayand their failure fail-ure was always followed by a low wail for II more legislation that Government might g be preserved and the laws enforced MrDick Ion took the laws as he found them and on il forced them and this is to his credit and the i benefit of the Government Whoever maybe may-be Mr Diokaons successor we trust that he may be as able energetic and successful in his ofiorts to enforce the laws as Mr Dick Bon has boon Having given this extract from the DrMOCKvr it was but natural that the Tribune should follow it with some comment 1 com-ment This was the comment Nowt we believe the DEMOCRAT published that simply for home use and that the author of it had in his soul while ho wrote the determination to knife Mr Diokson if possible We have no explanations to offer and men may attribute to us whatsoever motives mo-tives they choose and though the Tribune Tri-bune has attributed to us the same insincere hypocritical and grovel I I ing motives which ever actuate it still wo shall not condescend to deny them The editor of the TribuneS Tribune-S has discovered our motives and has given them to the world but he discovered them in his own hear Being incapable of rising above his own low level ho I deems that all the world is upon that i level knowing himself to be insincere he believes that all are insincere having i I no pure and honest motives he believes them wanting in all others He has reversed re-versed the nrderpf nature where others I have advanced he has retrograded what in others has been illumined in him has I been darkened experience which teaches i teach-es most men to avoid errors has in him I but confirmed them the modesty and humility which mark the true patriot and wellwisher of mankind in him are replaced re-placed by conceit and selflaudation he has piayed long and loud for the redemption redemp-tion of Utah but his prayers have been as those of the hypocrites in the synagogue his life and character may be summed I I up in paraphase of the language of Job I j he was horn in corruption raised incorruption in-corruption and will go down in corruption Butby what gift what faculty what I right what power does the editor of theI I Tribune assume to bay by what motives e I men are moved by what hopes their hearts are guided Is he so busy divining divin-ing the motives which actuate others and discovering the hopes which fill their hearts that he never looks inward but always al-ways outward If tho motives of men t who are opposed to him politically are always al-ways mean and sinister as the editor of the Tribune says they are and of which he is so certain is he quite sure that j his own motives and objects are of the I purest and most patriotic type Is he I quite certain that his bombastic and sesquipedalian 1 ses-quipedalian sentences which prate so of I freeSom and freemed are never once I written with a slight hope of sordid gain i Wo ask these questions that they may be i answered and grave suspicions from I many minds removed We would not I I h 0 > presume to trespass upon the motive i reading domain of the Tribune and say by I what motives it is actuated fully realizing I i realiz-ing that even tbe trongest suspicions are i nojjtgstoblished facts t In conclusion we r lecommeid the Tribune to ponder well I the parable of the beam and the mote and to profit by tho lesson which that I parable teaches I I i |