The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1908-10-27
ITS SNEAKING CRAWL.

II the intelligence and information
OF the Deseret News equaled its malig-
nifty aud its disposition to sopbistry aud
SANDER, then it would be formidable
| newspaper. Az il is, however. It's ig-
/ norance, its blundering, and It's feeble
mindedness make it the most contempt.
bic of sheets, Last Tuesday evening
it made r public parade OF the alleged
poverty Of the American candidates for
| Office a5 shown on the assessment roll.
Its point was evidently that unlees a
man paid good round sum in taxes
he had DO business 10 DO candidate
for Office.
However, il was easily shown that
this proposition was unsouud; and be-
sides. it was quickly made to appear
that the assessment roll does not always
disclose the amount OF taxes that man
pays. He may, and does, often have in.
terests in business concerns that arc
assessed, and he is taxed through those
concerns, although not in bis own name.
But II the assessment roll is a good
gauge of the fitness OF American candi.
dates for Office, why is il not q good
gauge also Of the fitness of candidates
on other tickets for ofiice7 Accordingly,
The Tribune invited the News to join
it IN finding out and printing also the
assessments against tie nominees of the
Republican party, aud the amount OF
taxes paid by these nominees, in con
junction with like statement ss to tue
American candidates. The News pro
fessed to comply, and sent reporter
down to check up with The Tribune
reporter on the candidates of these two
tickets, the American and the Repub.
lican, respectively.
The result showed that the American
nominees pay moro than double the
taxes that the Republican nominees pay;
The amounts il the aggregate being,
American candidates, sl200.52; Repub.
hcan candidates, S554.6o; excess of
taxes paid by American candidates,
S645.9O, This includes the State, iu.
dicial, legislative, county and city iu-
dicial nominees.
The Tribune printed these figures,
showing them exactly from the assess
mcnt roll. But did the Descret News
print them? Not at all. 1t lodged the
issue squaroly; refused to print the com
parative statement which its own orig
lnal charge invited, and declined 10
make the com payison which was neces.
sary in order to show the relation OF
the candidates on each ticket to the tax
roll, according 90 the News basis. The
weak, evasive, and silly dodge that the
News takes on this IS that it ''bas not
cared to sean the tax list to ascertain
the taxes paid by the candidates Of
other parties, for the simple reason that
there is no other party whose policy it
ls to- grab the peoples property by
means of excessive taxation.' Which
in itself is an absolute falsehood, in
voked for the purpose of basing upon
it its evasiyc sneak.
The News claims that the American
party tools have "raised tie taxes in
this city annually for several years.
And so on, with lot of twaddling stuff |
that is also false. It is all Just as false |
party, through its ''tools' or other
wise, has "raised the taxes in this !
city annually for several years. - There !
was no increase in the taxes by the |
American party the present year, al
though the News was loud in its outcry
that the taxes would be increased !
The bonds were voted or not. !
In this the News lied then. and it lies /
now, and both times 1t lied with full
knowledge that it was lying. and with
malicious intent to tell the lies that IL
did tell, and that it does tell, in its
fapatical desire 20 misleal and impose
upon the public.
There is not BIT OF truth or fair
ness III the attitude of the News on
this matter from first 10 last, Its posi-
ton is plainly the mcapest and most iu-
lefcusiblo possible. Aud the News III
making this sort or 2 crawl out, simply
attaches 10 itself once more, and more
irmly than ever, the charge often made
md often proved that IT is a lying
,neak, the ycllowest and most despicable
shurch organ printed anywhere in the
1orld