The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1910-10-22
DIsCREDITs ITS WITNESS.

The church organ has found a new
witness for the truth in the person
of Mr.. Jansen Fuhr 1t finds this wit.
ness an admirable truth teller who in
very short visit TO this city. pone.
trated the whole depths Of The Trib,
unc S iniquity, and found the exact
measure Of "an Irish boy' who worked
his way mp from being a day laborer
to he millionaire. and then got entry
to the United States Senate. thus round
ing out "'what was needed in bis cduca
ton This remarkable witness found
out that The Tribune ''was until few
years ago the friend Of all. but now
1t is one of the worst enemies of the
Mormon church. 1t has It's spies every.
wEcre and publishes without mercy all
Saints Upon which the News makes
this gentle comment; "Thc gentleman
1t Will be seen has sized up The Tribune
TO perfection. That is. the News con
cedcs that The Tribune has ample
sources of information; that it finds
the truth and prints it. When the News
further says that The Tribune IS "iour.
nallsm is that of a blackmailer' of
course it simply exhibits it's ignorance
and propensity for slandor and bears
false witness against its noighbor. Of
course the church organ knows very
we'll that there is nothing in the nature
of blackmail about any of The Trib.
upe,s processes. It prints facts. 1t
does not suppress them for pay or on
any other consideration. II never ap-
proachcs anyone with tho idea that it
has something on them and will print
it unless it is paid not to. The church
organ S admission that The Tribune
finds the facts and prints them is a
specific refutation of its slanderous lie
that The Tribune S method is that Of u
blackmailer- But the main question
is as to the News S witness aud the
things that it offers as coming from him
End of chapter /, showing his iudg
ment of The Tribune that il gets facts
and prints them without fear or favor.
Now cometh chapter II. In this
chapter the church organ specifically
seeks to discredit its own witness That
witness had said with respect to the
bargain with the Mormon church where
by IAN Irish boy' was elected TO tho
Senate, that "tbc money of the man
was good and there was plenty Of it
md they accepted it, The table of
'hcw bread was one OF the children of |
sorrow of the Mormon church-Saltair
"a resort and bath, and tho affairs
we're arranged satisfactorily. The man
was elected but he promised faithfully |
he church never TO be candidate after
his first term was ended This the |
'hurch organ takes pains to discrcdit |
Utterly, 1t says that as to this, Mr..
Fuhr commits the common er.
or of ascribing to the church the po.
ltlcal preferences to which he refers. "
But Mr., Jansen Fuhr did not refer to
POLITICAL preferences. He refers specifi-
ally TO money bargain in which the
burch did certain things in considcra.
ion of receiving the money Of the man
hat was good and plenty of it, The
News in dcnouncing IFS own witness as
falslticr in this connection can hard
Y expect its readers to believe that
witness when he makes charges against
The Tribune, as to which it supplements
nc statements of its witness by lies
f its own.
Either this witness cited by the News
truthful and credible throughout, or
e Is liar throughout. The News cites
i'm as truthful witness against The
'ribune but a false witness against the
hurch. But that Will hardly do He
S liar against The Tribune, unless he
ellis the truth about the church. The
hurch organ can take its choice. But
cannot plead that its own witness is
10Th liar and worthy of belief; and
'e leave it impaled on the horns of
is own dilemma.