Salt Lake evening Democrat. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1885-1887, 1885-04-25
THE PERFECT ONE.
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LIE L IEhFL Ell ONE.
This morning the Tribune crushes the
DEMOCRAT, and the only reason We have
for rising up again after being so COM
pletely pulverized is that truth, though
crushed to earth, will rise again." 1t is
our destiny to rise as much as it is the
TIribuae'S destiny to be the only Ameri-
can newspaper in the land. That paper
has been the great champion of a Com
mission for Utah, and if it has ever adj
vanced any reason why we need
Commission in Utah other
than its stilted one that anything
which does not bear the mint mark of its
sanction is un-American and treason, we
shall be most happy to see them and
ponder them, and if we shall become
convinced that they are good and sufi-
cient, we shall gladly say so and accept
them. But we want the reasons to bear
the evidence of their worth within and
not without them.
1t is something unique and very re-
freshing to see the Tribune grow fastidiouJ
in its journalistic language and say that
"last evening the DEMOCRAT grew
dirty in the discussion" when the
Tribune is so famous for the purity, the
spotless purity, of its language and argu-
ments. So keen is its wit, and so refined
is its taste, that but recently it outshone
itself by making puns upon the word
Maria and re-telling in Biblical language
the filthy things of last years campaign,
things which were started by reverend
Republicans. Did the dirt of last night
consist in terming you SecunduS and not
Primus? Why, of course we are dirty,
for dust we are and to dust we
must return, and our style is "turgid
and numbering" while yours is terse
and polished. We are compelled to use
a good broad sword, while you choose as
your weapon, the long and slim, but
deadly, rapier, and your art in its use is
greater than that of De Cassagnac Our
way is sneaking, while yours is the
straight and narrow path; ours leads to
destruction, but yours leads to the golden
gates of Paradise. We express our un-
certain ideas in English, while your GER
tain and exalted ideas are expressed in
Anaericdn. To be sure, We are ''the select
newspaper founded by men of self
righteousness, and that we are not like
you is our misfortune and regret and not
our crime. Your position and your ideas
are like time and space-beyond the con-
ception of mortal man, and we are NOR
tai, for you, who are immortal, have said
that We are dirty, and dirt is of the earth,
earthly, and the earth is of time and not
of eternity. Yes, we are the blackguard
OF journalism and liberty, and you are the
vanguard. You are the journal for
which Gutenberg invented printing and
for whom Aldus labored to improve the
appearance of type that it might adorn
the perfect journal, and Of which Milton
dreamed when he wrote his Areopa-
gitica. We can never hope to be so good
and chaste and pure as the Tribune,
but we shall try to reach it with a tele-
scope; and although we shall die, vet we
are happy in the thought that though
worms destroy this body (the DEMocRAT),
yet we know that our redeemer (the Tri- |
bune) lveth, and that we shall see it at !
the latter day.
But that the idea may not 90 forth that
we alone are impugning men and mo-
tives in our dislike of ultra Republican
ism, we quote from a gentleman well |
known in Utah: ''I feel confident |
that if you are successful in get
ting Strengthened out, your circula-
ton will soon equal, if not exceed.
the Tribune's. The Tribune has hereto
fore been looked upon as our only source
through which we could see the outside
world, but their persistent effort, both in
and out of season, to thrust their ultra
down our Democratic
throats, has been anything but palatable
TO great many. Again, it has, when
ever the slightest pretext admitted, in
lulged in the grossest sectional abuse.
Nobody, in their opinion, from Missouri to
Florida, possessed intelligence or
oyalty. The Tribune has waxed
at and nsolent, due not only to the
'ause named, but official patronage as
veil, which it would be reasonable to
uppose will not continue for any great