The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-04-30
NEWS, FA1sEHooDs.

The DeSeret News say The Herald of
yesterday morning had half column
4 of abuse of the people of Utah for not
responding promptly to the call issued
for volunteers The Deseret News,
whose motto is Truth and Liberty"
utters a willful and deliberate false
hood. The Deseret News says the evil
dent purpose of The Herald article is
to abuse, not the people of Utah. but
one part of that people" That is
contradiction of its first statement, az
well as a willful and deliberate false
hood. The gist of what The Herald
said is this:
The call for volunteers for the war
with Spain is an appeal to the patriot
ism of the American people. 1t is
matter of painful regret that the people
OF Utah have not promptly responded
to this patriotic call. This is not the
only matter of regret in connection with
! this call. Elsewhere in this issue Will
be found letter from the first presi-
dency of the Mormon church to Gov
! ernor Wells, in which President Wood
| ruff and his counseIlors practically call
! upon the members of their church TO
step forward in response to the call for
! volunteers. The letter does honor to
| those who sent it to his eXcellency and
is certain TO have the effect to cause
| those to whom it appeals to respond to
! the call for volunteers. But the prompt
/ ingS of patriotism alone should be Sufi1-
cient to cause the citizens of Utah to
! offer their services to their country
when it calls upon them. Do the men
to whom this letter will most strongly
/ appeal wish to have it said of them
! that they responded to their countTy's
| call only when hidden to do so by their
,.a1 ferio 70 iC a L.
ing far behind expectations in this mat
ter OF furnishing volunteers. 1t is true
! that recruiting has been going on but
two days, but if UtahS reputation is to
be saved the apathy of the past must
/ be wiped out by the activity of the
present.
If the Deseret News, or any one else,
can make any abuse out Of that it is
welcome to. Even the Deseret News.
the upholder of the constitution and
the champion par excellence of Ameri-
can Institutions. in an article on the
same page as the one in which it Will
fully and maliciously attempts to ma
lign The Herald, speaking of the slow
ness of volunteering, says:
Some remarks are being made re-
garding what seems to be a backward
ness as to enlistments pursuant to the
presidents call for volunteers. That
! there is no great rush is not to be de-
MED but that there is any degree of
! apathy regarding the matter is hardly
probable.
The Deseret News, whose MOTTO is
! Truth and Liberty declares that
there is no great rush ito volunteer
is not to be denied Wherein does
that statement differ materially from
that of The Herald that Utah is fall
! ing far behind expectations in this
matter of furnishing volunteers" Will
the Deseret News, with its keen in
| sight into all things, please indicate
| the material difference between the two
! statements?
And what did The Herald say about
the letter of President Woodruff to
Governor Wells? It was this:
Elsewhere in this issue will be found
| a letter from the first presidency Of
! the Mormon church to Governor Wells,
/ in which President Woodruff and his
counselIors practically call upon the
members of their church to step for
ward in response to the call for vOlun-
teers.
| by the Provo Enquirer, paper edited
and published by Mormons, the vice
president of which is one of the apostles
of the Mormon church? The Enquirer
says:
/ The first presidency Of the Latter
/ day Saints have been prompted to is
sue a letter to the governor, seeking
! to facilitate the enlistment and prob
] III fol
/ ing out of remarks at the Salt Lake
/ tabernacle last Sunday. Members of
the Mormon church are very properly
urged to volunteer, and help make up
Utah's quota of men. It is proper ad-
vice at this time, for the present war
merits the support of all peace-lOving
people. 1t is in the fullest sense war
for peace.
Will the Deseret News, so noted for
its acumen. ability to split hairs and
ever ready and cheerful willingness
to attempt to make black ap-
pear white, be so good, for it loves
goodness above all things earthly, as to
point out the difference between the
view of the intent of the letter taken
by The Herald and that by the En-
quirer?
4
so mad, righteously mad. of course Git
couldn't be anything else) that it just
couldn't resist emptying its gall blad-
der. Having done that, it will now feel
better for some little time, but it
should set over the very bad habit of
telling willful and deliberate faIsehoods
about The Herald, for the manufac-
turing of malicious faIsehoods is quite
inconsistent with the profession of de-
votion TO Truth and Liberty" If the |
manufacture of falsehoods is to be con-
tinued by the Deseret News the motto, /
Truth and Liberty" should be
changed to Lies and License"
The Herald has done, and will con-
tinue to do, what President Woodruff |
and his counsellors have done-urge |
that the people step forward and volun-
teer.
A HARSH, DIsCoRDANT NOTE.
Whatever may have been the differ !