The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1909-06-09
ITS MENDAoIoUs EFFRoNTERY

LIZ OAO1OOo I
1t was indeed. astonishing TO sec th'
twistlngs Of the Dcscret News on Mon
day night, 1t had the affrontcry tc
deny that ii asked certain questions re
Gently, putting it up 10 the Tribune tc
answer The questions appeared in the
News Of Thursday, May 9th. Tho
editorial was introduced by naming The
Tribune, and further down in the same
paragraph, it accused The Tribune OF
trying to ignore certain questions, and
then puts its questions direct. evident
ly TO Tho Tribune. There is no other
reasonable view To take of it. and lis
final question was "'FinaIIv, has The
Tribune, which claims TO speak for the
| American party, had one word of
protest against the establishment of the
Stockade. except under municipal own,
crshlp?' 1T appears, therefore, that
the News is guilty Of willful, nasty
falschood III its claim that it had not
asked these questions Of The Tribune,
and there would appear TO be no fur
L.
When it introduced that editorial by
especially naming The Tribune. and
accusing The Tribune of trying to
evadc certain questions, and then put
ing the questions in its own way, and
finally, to cliuch the matter put fhc
question direct TO The Tribune, there
would seem TO be no foundation except
absolute mcndacity, fer DENYING that
the questions were asked Of The Tri
bune.
In its issue of Monday evening of
TINS week. for the first time, il thought
1t could see hole for dodging the prop.
osltion that it had asked these ones
tions of The Tribune, (the hole not
deep enough for 1T to get into.) and il
proceeds with certain misrcprcscnta.
.tlons. 1t denies that The Tribune de-
nounccd the proposition Of the Chief of
Police TO establish stockadc holding
that we only denounced municipal own
ership; small quibblc. for The Tri
bune denounced both. Tie siockadc. IN
the form 1T afterwards took, was moi
then up for discussion, not having been
proposed at all. The Tribune denounced
everything connected with the PROPOSE.
ton of the former chief Of police. aud
the News. in saying that that is not
true, simple convicts itself OF wilIful
and malicious falsehood
Then the News comes TO the point
where 1T refuses TO answer the mcs.
hons put by us in return for the aues.
tions asked by it Of The Tribune. IT
excuses itself from answering those
questions by saving that they arc "cn-
tirely foreign to the discussion regarding
the responsibility for the stockade. u
We'll, suppose they are. What! Is the
News the only paper that is permitted
TO ask questions, and is it also entitled
TO limit the scope Of queries and discus.
SONS OF public qucstions' In so far as
the News may make any such claim
as this, We deny its position absolute
lv, and hold that The Tribune is inst
as much entitled 10 ask questions as
the News is, and 10 determine for il
self what sort Of questions it will ask.
and what ground those questions shall
cover
The churlish attitude of the News in
claiming that our answers arc not
truthful, is simply in keeping with the
vicious and continuous falsehoods of |
that paper, so notorious shat il has
long been Il byword to Gle like the
News, = which is an expression com
monty heard Of the deepest contempt
Coming next TO the point of expendi. |
ture of the money obtained from the |
sale Of bonds voted in 1905. the News |
says that we try 10 make it appear |
that ii was during Morris s admins |
tratlon that the pledges made to the |
people were broken. We not ONLY trv
to make ii so appear, but prove IL; we
show precisely wherein those pledges
were broken, that they were broken
during the Morris administration. and |
the fact is beyond any dispute. We
have always insisted that these pledges
should he kept, But the church or
gan did not insist, And now the News
SAYS that our showing Of the bad faith
of the Morris administration is an adj
mission by us that the American adj
''did not. by The Tri-
bune S own admission, live up to the
pledges made by its predecessor.
II was Its predecessor that broke
the faith, not the American admiuistra-
1ion; and not at any time has there
been the least showing that the Amcri
can administration broke any faith
with the public, The pledges Of faith
all occurred before the American ad.
came into power. as the
News very well knows: and when it
claims an admission by us that the
American administration broke faith, il
simply prrc!aims. i.sc'l seundalons