The Evening dispatch. [volume] (Provo, City, Utah) 1891-1895, 1895-01-02
PROVO CITY, JAN. 2, Is!
THE NEWS, INDEPENDENCE.

The Deseret Evening News claims to
be an independent paper, but its
views of independence ale peculiar to
itself. a perusal of its columns would
one day indicate that it was inspired
by the pure light of truth, but feared
to give expression to that truth lest it
might lose cast as an independent; at
another time it appears from its tone
that Independence and money mean
the same thing; at still another time
its expressions warrant the belief that
support by the son of anything the
father says is the acme of indepen
dence. and still on other occasions its
readers must be forced to the convic
ton that valid and unreasoning at
tack on the ways of journals tic op-
ponents OF of those that have braved
its anger is the elimination Of indie
pendence. All this the News is and
has been.
An ordinary fellow, illiterate as the
world goes, would call that paper in
dependent which gave fearless ex-
preston to its honest convictions.
This the News does not do, whether
because it dare not be fearless or
really has no honest convictions does
not appear; but it is neither fearless
nor free. Referring directly to a case
in point, and one in which public at
tention has been centered, the present
contest as to the constitutional con-
vention, where has it been indepen-
dent? When not silent it has in
a masterful way, in all probability in
herited from father to son, attacked this
grave subject in half fearful, tImid
sort of way. 1t tIuthfully states that
Utah cannot afford to go into the
Union with the tarnish of fraud upon
her escutcheon. The News does not
come out and say there have been
frauds, though it intimates as much.
That would be the manly thing. 1t
does not say that the men for whom
the people cast their ballots should,
in lawful ways, be given the right to
frame a constitution for the people,
no matter what the cries of partisans
nor what the allegations of those fight
ing against statehood. That would be
in keeping with an Independent news
1t intimates that the the commission
should cease in the work ofinyestigation of
imposed upon it by the law, and gives
the meanest reason ever offered to
humanity for submission to wrong and
refusing to perform manifest duty.
1t says the present course of the COM
mission or the democracy will keep
money from the territory. How have
the mighty fallenl As the organ of
the church whose mission is to battle
against wrong and to contend for the
right, be the cost what it NAV. the
News should come out and demand
that, for the reputation of the people
1t pretends to represent, justice to the
church leaders to whom it is so
closely allied, this paper above all
others should demand and insist on the
most vigorous Investigation and the
conviction of the guilty, if there be
such, or the vindicaticn of those who |
are scorched by its unmanly intimation
that wrong has been done; but we had
better drop all proceedings lest it affect
our purses. We have fallen on degener-
ate times, or the News into degenerate
hands, when an organ of the pure and
holy should publicly acknowledge the
sceptre OF Mammon. There was a
time when all the world was rendered
a Holy One if he would bow down and
worship wrong, He evidently had no
connection with the News, for he re-
i9cted the offer.