The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1907-03-12
THE NEWS LECTURES.

The Deseret News, like it's renal as
sociates, has discovered that The Trib'
une contains cartoons; and, as is usual
with the News, it fails to approve this
papers choice OF subjects and the exc
cution by the artist.
The church organ affects rage at
The Tribune s cartoon on the subject
of the recent reservation of 'forcst'
domain. in which this paper portrayed
the general sentiment Of Western SEN
ators and Representatives that the hur-
ried withdrawal Of seventeen millions
of acres from the public domain, in the
very moment that Congress had sent
to the President bill to prevent such
withdrawal in such way, was an injury
TO the Western land in which tens OF
thousands of honest citizens are seek"
ing to make homes.
The Tribune g idea was not only CON
sonant with that Of Western Senators
and Representatives. but was fully in
accord with Congress and the law
passed by that body. But the super
sensitive News must needs find fault.
themselves the guidance in this world
and the world to come Of his excel
lency, Theodore Roosevelt, President
of the United States of America. Here
after no one must question an act of
the Executive under penalty OF anathe-
ma TO be pronounced by the bogus
prophet in the Bee Hive House and
echoed through the hollow columns OF
the church organ.
1t makes no difference whether Con
gress agrees with the President or not.
It makes no difference whether the peo-
pie are served or injured by the Ex"
ecutive act. The prophets approve;
and all human creatures are then
placed under divine command to accept
the Executive decree. thus approved,
and abide by it with ''unquestioned
obedience.
The Deseret News has no more real
respect for Theodore Roosevelt than
the News and its bogus prophets had
for other Presidents Of the United
States, when they consigned those EX-
ccutives to the nethermost depths of
the neither region Any pretension on
their part of genuine friendliness is A
degrading falsehood of lattery, which
could only be the more degrading if 1T
were real sentlment-for the man
who can fulfill the desires of the Des-
eret News and It's crafty directors and
can obtain their sincere commcndation
bo, c1,f 81 I'm
manity.
For the Deseret News to lecture The
Tribune upon its attitude toward the
President of the United States is about
as ridiculous rs most Of that organ s
proceedings that deal with public ques-
tions IN this country. The Tribune re-
spects the President and his high Office
without having any fear Of either.
The President has no more sincere ad
mirer than this paper within that do
main where he is exercising prudently,
safely and constitutionally, the duties
of his exalted position. But, like many
another journal IN this land, The Trib.
une takes the privilege, in words and
by picture; to speak in dlsapproval Of
acts which are not for the public ben
eft. That is the American prerogative,
10 lose which in perpetuity will cost
this Republic the principles upon which
the Republic was founded.
Let us leave 10 iDsincere 6atterers
like the Deseret News and its bogus
prophets, who fawn for favor and curse
with puny anathema when disappoint-
cd-the scnscess adulatlon of an uu-
reasonable exercise of power. Those
papers, like the News, which approve
all things, good, bad or Indifferent,
which may be performed by the power
with which they arc friendly, are the
Executive 9 worst advisers and most
unstable friends; for such as they arc
ready TO desert whenever cause is
unpopular and whenever Executive
authority is endangered by resistance.
The real feeling of the Deseret News
and its bogus prophets toward Federal
authority is shown in the words of
Joseph r Smith, who denouuces all
Gentiles and Gentle authority, includ-
ing all the people of this Nation aud
the government of this Nation. as Cen
emies