The Evening dispatch. [volume] (Provo, City, Utah) 1891-1895, 1894-02-06
PROVO CITY. FEB. 6. 1894
THE INSANITY OF JEALOUSY.

When the present management as
sumed control of THE DISPATCH we
were warned fully Of the despicable
character of the opposition it would
have to contend against. We refused
to believe many of the very hard things
said of our competitor by reputable
citizens of Provo and Utah county; but
we have found, as the Queen of Sheba
found when she saw all the glories of
Solomon, that the "half had not been
told" us of the utter meanness, desper-
ate falsehood and the wretched jeal-
ousy of the management of the En-
uuirer. Its ruthless methods extend to
Mormon as we'll as Gentle, 1t makes
no difference, it has driven its eO-MOr-
mons to suicide and into bankruptcy
and in the practice of Its despicable
modes it has been. wonderfully impair
tial. 1t has succeeded IN placing itself
across the hawse of every public enter
prise of the city and has won for the
helpless people of Provo character
for turpitude which they are not en-
titled to, and which has been of inefable
injury to the fair city.
Its first exploit, after we took charge
of THE DISPATCH, was to try to engen
der prejudice among the Mormon
people, by falsely asserting that in
Colorado we were a 'Mormon-eater, a
Mormon spotter" here, Failing in
this. 1t made a strenuous effort to con-
vince us that If alone, because it was
of that faith, was entitled to speak for
the church, publish its notices and
other matters of interest to that peo
ple-its evident purpose in this was
patronage of that church and
its members from US, and to teach
them that they must look alone to it
for such information. This was
promptly repudiated by eminent
churchmen of the Mormon faith.
Since then it has falsely scharged and
often repeated the charge that the edi-
tor of The DISPATCH was a republican
in Santa Fe, a democrat in Ell Paso
and populist in Colorado. The truth |
is we never edited paper in El Paso
at all and have not been in that city
since 1889 The other charges have
been disproYed, and it is not necessary
for us to refer to them here. But in its
article yesterday it transcended all of
its former efforts by toss,
1t is true that in writing of the visit
of the church board to the B. Y. acad-
emy the other day we rather overstated
matters a little, but all intelligent |
Mormons could see that there was no
purpose in the article save to do lit |
tie glorying in the service of that grand |
local institution, of which all of our |
people, without regard to religious feel
ings, are justly very proud. The in
formation was given Us by Mormon
gentleman, who stands, and who al
ways has stood, in the church estima.
tion, immeasurably above where the
manager of the Enquirer or his hired
blackguard stands, or can ever hope to
climb.
We were visited upon the occasion of
the publication in question by one of
the gentlemen who signed the card,
and he stated that while little mac
curate regarding the visits previously
paid the B. Y. by two mena-
bers of the board, which mattered
little, the only thing really wrong
from the stand point of policy was the
financial statment. This was given us
by the gentleman aforementioned and
we but joined in the pride he expressed
that the financial strigency affecting
the institution was nearing its end. We
would be extremely loath to inju1e the
school or the church by anything we
could do in the way of rejoicing be- {
cause of the good things coming, or to
come to either or both.
We leave all good citizens of Provo
and Utah county to say who is the hy-
AlO WIZ fanny ululSelI
to make the world believe his devotion
10 the church in which he is in exceed !
ngly bad oder, by such methods as l
5hese, or the stranger, the Nor |
non who only feels kindly toward :
hem and who upon technical church :
questions may now and then make a L
Light mistake in his efforts to do both b
he people and their schools real ser n
ice. We seek TO build up this paper, b
lot by tearing down the Enquirer, n
While the management of that II
aper has no hope of living
ave only in tearing down The Dis !,
ATCH. This it is and nothing more. te
Lis devotion to either the church or its
,hools is a myth and bit of hypoc-
sY to which The DISPATCH can
ax,a,-