The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-03-19
YOUNG UTAH.
Salt Lake CITY. Marcl

To the Editor of The Herald:
SHY oung Utah" is again confront
ed with the delightful task of beating
air. This has reference to the Tribune
screed, published in their issue of the
18th inst, and which, according to the
heading-"The Only Clue"-is supposed
to be their answer to our former letter.
AS usual, the Tribune wanders off into
bye and forbidden paths, where we
cannot follow without being equally in
consistent. They say: Now, we sub
NIT a little story for your use and edi-
fication. 1t comes to us from Ogden
ETC., and then follows piece of pa
thetic gossip intended, we suppose, to
give a slight physical resemblance to
their everyday dredm-that "polygam-
Gus marriages are being performed, y
etc. For a thorough and complete refu-
tation of this yarn, we refer them to
the letter supplied by the Ogden con-
tingent of Young Utah. and pub.
lished in The Herald the following day.
A perusal of Young Utah's reply Will
disclose the fact that the Tribune's
credulity has again been imposed upon,
or that they willfully conceal the facts
in the case. We believe the latter is
precisely what occurred, for, after pub
fishing the yarn on Monday and au-
daciously commencing it to us for our
use and edifcation," as proving that
''polygamy was still practiced in Utah, :"
two days afterwards, when forced to
it, they admitted, as they say they
knew it was a case of perjury" This
touching story is typical of the excit-
ing narratives that appear from time to
time in the Tribune columns. They be-
long to the Bishop West" series, and
upon investigation invariably prove to
be like the orthodox without
body, parts or passions"
One of the numerous charges that we
have registered against the Tribune
management, and one upon which we
still expect to receive a ruling, is that
of usurping authority and assuming a
power that was never conferred. Now,
the same charge, viz, "unWarranted as
SUMPTION" could, with equal consist
ency, be brought against us, if we I'M
dertook or We're unwittingly led into a
public discussion of those matters that
do not concern US. The Tribune editor
knows this. He knows that in our ca
pacities we have no recognized author
ity, even if we had the desire, to speak
either negatively or affirmatively for
the Mormon church. 1t is no part of
our business, and yet, like a crafty old
crocodile when attacked by a tiger, in
his fury he lasheS the earth with his
ping at his adversary, continues to
back nearer and nearer to the waters
edge, knowing full we'll that once off
solid ground, the tiger is doomed. 1t
is useless for the Tribune writer to con-
tirue these tactics with US, for though
young, we have common sense enough
to remain on tenable ground and we
refuse to be cajoled. AS we do not
pretend to be champions of, or sponsors
fnr hn oh or, CO To &c
this controversy is concerned, to repre-
sent any particular creed or society,
therefore, for the third or fourth time,
we insist upon the Tribune observing
the ordinary rules of debate, Of keep
ing to the legitimate text and to re-
main on solid ground.
We believe this bugaboo about polyg-
amous marriages, ETC., that is fast de-
veloping chronic insomnia to the Tri-
bune managers, is a question for the
civil authorities of the state and the
proper officials of the Mormon church
to settle, and though our varied and
somewhat humble position in life does
not enable us to specifically deny and
disprove all these wholesale charges of
pledge breaking" etc, yet, judging by
the spite which Enthusiastically inspires
them, by the flimsy material of which
they are invariably composed and the
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support, we are firm in the belief that
these charges against the dominant
church are not only ridiculOusly exag-
gerated, but that ninety-nine and nine
tenthS out of every hundred of them are
purely imaginary, and like the pitiful
wretch who can see a thousand snakes
crawling and popping up their hideous
heads in every direction, yet to the nor
NAL individual, to the rational mind.
= ;r oI1r f011 e..
alarm, for he knows that despite these
frantic shrieks of terror, these wild in
dications of danger, the hallucination is
due entirely to internal arrangement,
rather than to external conditions If.
out of the multitude of kissing snakes
within range of the Tribune's optics
there is one real, live specimen, let
them trot it out. We care not whether
the rattles are in the tail or in the
head-this is only a difference in spe-
cies: all we ask is, that it shall be a
straight, genuine specimen that does
not require the questionable Tribune
logic to prove it. We don't want a
"has BEEN" a nearly was" or a
would like to be- Give us aIk lis, -
and we will refer the matter to the
proper authorities.
Tine Tribune commences its last eff
fusion by saying the Herald branch OF
young Utah are growing saucy." The
week previous we were accused of
getting groSsy."
Our "sauciness' and ''grogginess'
consist in the fact that we insist that
the Tribune shall at least attempt tc
refute our charges OF challenge us to
prove thenl-which we are ready and
anxious to do.
We have repeatedly announced our
| Willingness to prove without going out
side the Tribune Office every charge