The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1883-08-31
Who is Off,?
Editors Herald:

An editorial article in Thursdays
Tribune says, president Taylor is
entirely off when he says or thinks,
as he is reported to have said in his
address, that the end and aim of the
TTibune'S labor, or of those whom
it represents, is to induce the perse-
cution of the MormOns.
So that the editor may not labor
under delusiOn, here inform him
that Mr.. Taylor in his address said
nothing about the Tribune in specific
terms; and if he were referring to
it Indirectly with other deleterious
influences at work against the best
interests of this community, the
editor shows much presumption in
accepting ell the censure for his
paper, unless the comments in his
es timation seemed to be peculiarly
appropriate.
With reference to the above ques-
! ton, it is only necessary to remark
that if any one is entirely Off in
this matter, it is the editor, as no
person who knows Mr.. TaylOr's eX-
/ perience. would ever suspect that
he thinks that the end and aim
of the TTi6u7le'S labor, or Of those
whom 1t represents, is to induce the
persecution of the MOrmons."
| Mr.. Taylor is too much Of a dip
lomat to make such an egregious
error as that. He knows too well
that the persecution of the Mormon
people by the Tribune is only
| the means to an end. Ihe
nature of this end, the Mormon
people also thoroughly understand
and when they pass upon the course
of that journal, it is always with d
view to that end. The means they
care nothing about, but naturally,
when they look at the end, they
acquire somewhat of disgust for the
entire concern.
The same article tells US that the
paper "has published q hundred
columns of reasoning, of pleading,
of teaching, to one Of denunciation,
and Thousand such columns to one
of vituperation." This is not true,
| but if it were, there could be no
point in the remarks. To illustrate
The gentleman who is usually
credited with the best articles. is
Enthusiastically a man of much cul-
ture and acknowledged ability as a
writer. he writes at times editorial
articles which do him honor; and
occasionally, when he allows his
better nature free scope, he produces
gems of literature, with which he
adorns his flights ''of reasoning, of
pleading, of teaching" so that the
result is admirable. at times he
argues from wrong standpoints and
not infrequently from entirely false
information but all this may be
pardoned IN consideration Of his
surroundings, provided his general
work be acceptable to candid and
intelligent people.
AS sure as unerring fate, how
ever, when through q combin'
alton of fortuitous impress
sions the gentleman presents
US with a fine article; teeming with
manliness, OVERLOOKING with hui
manity, and sparkling with brilliant
Draininess; just as certainly does
some low and inhuman writer, on
the same page perhaps, or more
likely on another, compile some
horrid filth, which, by its more
pungent odOr, flavors the Whole
issue.
Some of these filthy things may
be, and often are, retained in the
memory, there to engender hate
and mayhap a hope for revenge
but the reasoning, the teaching anC
che pleading, are entirely thrown
away. They are indeed as q spark
, of affection in the heart of a deadly
viper; vRlueless, because unap.
proachable. A. 3. C.
! SALT LAKE, August 80, 1889.