The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1907-05-03
NEWS TALK VS.. NEWS PRACTICE

Commencing the action of those
street car employees who refused TO go
out on strike, the Dcserct News saws
They should not be forgotten. The
Inference is that the company should
continue to give to those men employ
mcnt and extend TO them fayors, in re-
turn for their adherence TO the corpo.
ration in its recent trouble.
The Tribune is informed, by a former
employee Of the church organ, of some
facts connected with the News which
are dcmonstrative of the inconsistency
and two-faccd deccptivcness of the
polygamous apologist Once upon
time the church organ mechanical
force was involved IN strike. Some
of the men who had been with il for
years refused to Join in the movement
to quit their work. They remained at
their posts and enabled the News TO
continue its publication during the pc
riod when the trouble was on. One of
these men IS now y u advanced in
years. He has paid thousands of dol
lars in tithlng during his lifetime. But
because his advancing years will not
.WIC 'Dls man l' up lis ,"g.:c e u",.
work as he was able TO perform in his
younger time, there has been CON
stant effort on the part of the official
underiings, and even the oyerlings, of
that institution of bencvolence TO put
their faithful old servant on the shelf
In fact, the onslaught against his place
became so determined. and promised to
be successful TO his removal from the
means of his livelihood, that he was
obliged to make appeal to the officials
of the church. These told him that
the management of the concern was
not in their hands. and that they were
unable TO do anything In his behalf.
There was one man among them how
ever, who (aside from a certain ohiec-
tionable practice) is everywhere recog-
niZed 10 be gentleman. and one of
probably greater ability than any other
official in the Mormon church. This
man knew Of the circumstances con.
nected with the old employee S connec-
tion with the church newspaper. and he
befriended the faithful worker with
such success that employment was con-
tinued. But, for all that, the effort to
make life a burden to the man who re-
mained faithful 10 the institution dur
ing It's trouble continues with unabatcd
vlgor. Afraid to remove him summariIy.
his prosecutors are endeavoring TO ren.
der his position so irksome as to cause
him to resign in disgust. But there is
III the old gentleman s veins the blood
which has made for the advancement
of civilization all over the world, and
he exhibits determination TO contend
2 for his rights which is astonishing to
the whlppersnappers who have been ac-
customed to sec the ecclesiastical will
obcyed with alacrity and without ques,
ton. i
That is the sort of example the News
sets to the railway company while IL
is urging that the latter should not for.
get the men who aided it in its recent
trouble. Not only has the faithful ser
want of the News never failed 10 rem.
der an honest days work in return for
the pay which he received-and IN the
days not so long ago that consisted. in
great part, of the tithing house lcav-
lngs of the authorities but he has
been constant contributor TO the
tlthe fund of the church which owns
the News, thus helping TO furnish the
means Tor the construction of the mod
ern home which the church organ now
occupies. He has labored faithfully for
the institution, assisting in the work
Of dragging the paper through its trou.
blous career into prosperity. But, like
It's masters, who discard helpless tithe
payers who have impoverished them
selves that the church might wax fat IN
riches, the organ of the Mormon lord
Is now anxious to be rid Of him. !