Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1890-12-19
4 FINAL ANSWER.

WE are under the necessity of re-
ferring once more to a very stale
chestnut which the "Liberal'' or
gan, with its accustomed center
prise" for the lack CT something
new and interesting, has raked out
OF the cold ashes of the past. A
week ago we replied. to some ques-
lions put by that paper to the Dies
EKET NEWS. They were in refer
snce to the Ogden Junction and tn.
Ogden City Council in the year 1876.
We were asked to affirm or deny
certain statements alleged to have
been made by ga gentleman" TO the
Tribune. We denied. This morn
ing We are attacked in common
Tribune fashion, not because there
was anything in our reply that was
untrue, for We are told, "of course
that is in one sense true" but be-
cause 1t did not suit the purpose in
view In asking the questions.
reference is made to a reproduc-
ton Of the Ogden City Council
records in a previous issue of the
Tribune, and what the Ogden juno
fson drew from the city treasury.
Close examination of that report
shows that not one statement in our
reply is contradicted, and nothing is
adduced that was not known 10 the
citizens Of Ogden at the time and
approved by the public. And all
the financial Transactions brought
forth with a flourish were duly pub
lished in the columns of the Ogden
-Jimcti on, as reports of City Council
minutes and in the quarterly official
reports of the Auditor and Treas
urer.
The simple facts are that Ogden
City, on the building Of the Utah
Central Railroad, invested in one
Of the bonds Of that road; that sub
sequentiy, when paper was started
In that city, the bond was sold and
the proceeds invested in the
capital stock of that paper.
which became the official organ of
the city; that in both instances It
was deemed for the public interest
to 50 invest these funds; that
1t was endorsed by the public; that
when the capital stock Of the COM
pany was increased for building
purposes and enlargement Of the
paper, all the stockholders made a
further pro rata investment, the
city with the rest; -that connected
with the paper WIS job Office that
did printing for the city and re-
ceived payment therefor as from
other customers; that these trausac-
tons were done in a business way,
in open council, and the particulars
we're published; that the grand jury
in 1876 investigated the whole mat.
ter and found nothing against
which they could proceed except to
mention it in their report.
One thing which the Tribune did
not think it worth while to men,
ion We may as well allude to.
That is, the Junction paid dividends
o the stockholders up to the date
mentioned, Of e5 per cent. alto
yether on the amount invested. But
Il course that was a trifie that did
not come in the line of what was
by that very ingenu Gus or.
,sn. Its report says:
'Thc News makes a denial through
is editorial columns, though the mat
er IN controversy does not seem 10
INVOLVE that paper. but its edi,or.-
II that is so, why did it COM
nence the attack in this way:
A gentleman brings us an item
which we would like to submit to the |
)EsEREr News for confirmation or |
Icnial.''
Again i says:
THE TribHne does not make state
nent that it does not believe true. |
Then convinced that il has made q
Mistake it invariably relraets."
This would be news to the people
{ Salt Lake il any zane persons
ould be found who would believe
: That paper has been convicted
lines without number of wilful ly-
ng. 1t has never been known to
make u. fhir, square retraction, no !