The Evening dispatch. [volume] (Provo, City, Utah) 1891-1895, 1895-11-08
PROVO CITY. NOV. s 1895
TRIBUNE LOGIC AND DEPRAvITY.

TRIBUNE IUGlC AND DEPRAflI1.
The local republican organ across
the block approvingly quotes the fol-
lowing from the Salt Lake Tribune:
eff the church used influence, as has
been charged, which charge has meyer
been taken back, and the majority has
not greatly increased over last year,
then the church has lost its influence;
and that danger is put aside; but the
size of the majority shows plainly
enough that ali the charges of church
influence have been false from begin.
ming to end"
In answering the Tribune, ,our neigh
bor is also answered.
In the first place. that "charge"
which democrats have made and have
proven against high members of the
Mormon church-not the church itself
unless three or four men in the eyes Of
the Tribune, constitute the church,
will never be taken back, because it is
the truth, not anywhere near all the
truth, and nothing but the truth.
The Tribune affects to believe that
because the republican majority has
not been increased this year, then have
those men not used their influence, or
it has ceased to have any weight with
the people. That kind of an argument
brings to mind an incident Presi-
dent Brigham Young used to relate.
A man who used tobacco lived to be
ninety-years old, and people who
sought to dodge the argument relative
to tobacco being hurtful, would refer
President Young to the aged user CT
the weed, that it was not injurious, or
that man would not have lived 30 long.
President Young replied by asking, if
the man lived to be ninety years old
and used tobacco, how many years
more might he not have lived if he had
not used it? The Tribune's logic is of
the same kind as the man who tried to
excuse himself in the use of tobacco
If, with that influence against the DEM
ocratic party, they managed to little
more than hold their own. what might
not have been the results if that infu-
ence had not been used? The Tribune
pays the Mormon democrats an unin
territorial compliment when it says if
that influence has been used,
it has lost its force and
and the evidence of which is found in
the e4ection returns. And because the
great mass of the democrats refused
to be Influenced, the charge that it hee
been 30 used is false from beginning to
end. By parity Of reasoning, accord
ing to the Tribune, if the republican
majority had been increased to 5000
as they claimed it would be, that would
have been conclusive proof that eccle-
siastic influence had been used and
that it had been effective, Truly that
Tribune editor is wonderfully logical
man in his own estimation. But to
men who reason, its arguments sug-
gest the thought that if the Tribune
editor ever did know anything about
cause and effect or logic, his mind has
been SO crippled within the past two
years by its efforts to learn new tricks,
that it is now incapable of anything
like logical reasoning. And the fur
ther thought is suggested that the
great obituary writer should get
primer on logic and study it assid- |
uousiy before indulgiDg any further
in comments on ''church influence
Another thought suggests itself and in
which possible cause may be found
for the ever-lessening vigor of Tribune
The mind is always af.
fected by the condition of the stomach.
The poor old Trib has been forced to
eat so much crow during the late cam
paign that its digestive apparatus is
out of order. 1t will be remembered
that in order not to injure his senator
lal aspirations, the Tribune man, after
the nauseous mess. was forced
TO swallow Trumbo's seven ring Cir
Jus and democratic annex" and admit
hat it was, after all, real republican
annex and seven ring circus; that the
,oor- -old-sick-a at-the-stomach Trib was {
lso forced to give the Trumbo circus
rec ads and TO keep an account of the {
And ali that had to be |
wallowed in order that the senatorial ,
zee in the Tribune editors hat might
ot suffer death by sort of ecclesiasti-
al inannition. AS we look at the once Z
talwsrt opposer of church influence. i
n his bended knees before that same
over he once so heartily detested. i
leading in mendicant tones for SEN r
torship, and swallowing great gobs of =
even ring circuses, and whole volumes ,
somnambullst1c influences and de- a
airing them to be sweet or tasteless, u
nd all that his over weening vanity u
lay be gratifed with senatorship. he q
resents a picture Of such abject COW ii
rdice and trucking venality as to ex +,
tie the pity and contempt of those
lat used to admire his seeming cour-
re while loathing the sentiments that e.
me from heart in which there was A
D throb of pity or compassion for NJ
lose he used to mercilessly follow pl
18th ali the venom of the hooded rep bu
le of the Orient. W
TRADING VOTES.
The genius who in reality presises -