Show I TRIBUNE CONSISTENCY I A Corrcbpimtleiit Allio Den oumices I Newspaper Intolerance as AVoli i as Religious Bigotry i ii i STOCKTON August 14th 1885 I EDITOR DEMOCRAT If it will not betaking I be-taking up too much of your space I I should be pleased to set the tribune right I in several respects in its editorial comments com-ments on your correspondent from Stockton Stock-ton It charges him with making a I piteous appeal to the public to support I the DEMOcftAT If an honest expression of approval of the fair and unprejudiced I course of the DEMOCRAT can be interpreted inter-preted as being a piteous appeal then I the Tribune is correct It further says I The man writes like a lunatic it is not I necessary to contradict him and then in the sublime and unbounded wisdom of I the paper that has not an equal within a thousand miles in any direction it devotes de-votes a half column of its invaluable space to contradict what is not necessary The paper without a peer never allows an opportunity to pass and if the opportunity oppor-tunity is wanting it imagines one to tell a longsuffering public how great and powerful itis and that if it has not been I the only cause it has been the great cause of effecting what little gain there has been made in Utah I am not one who desires to detract or to deny to the Tribune or to any other source all credit thai is justly their due but I am one who does admire consistency I have no fault to find with the Tribune in its denunciation I de-nunciation of priestly intolerance but I I am as much opposed to political or newspaper news-paper intolerance as I am to the other kind and I think that facts will bear me out in charging the paper without a peer with intolerance and with the use of language unbecoming a journal of its towering abilities towards all who dare to use the liberty of respectfully differing I with its greatness as to its methods It has shown a disposition if it had the I power to be as dictatorial and despotic toward all who dare to differ from it as the high priests who rule in Utah have I proved themselves to be It is no doubt governed by the old saw that it takes a i thief to catch a thief or that it requires a despotism to successfully combat a I despotism but it should acknowledge to I lunatics and others who do not posses I the collossal brain power of the editor of I the paper without peer the inalienable right of an American citizen to differ in I opinion It inquires of your correspondent correspon-dent how long has he been in full accord with all good citizens in desiring the full I vindication of all laws Some time before the editor of the greatest etc received his mission to Utah I UtahAN OLD RESIDENT |