The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1910-01-21
MORE CHURCH ORGAN LYING.

The church organ is so given to lyinI
that 1t is getting absolutely reckless
and hardened in that form Of iniquity
As an instance, we will note that oil
Monday evening it had IN the midst OF
a ranting sort of an editorial the fol
lowing paragraph. the "it' referred tC
being The Tribune.
II opposed the million dollar Issue dur
ing the Morris administration. though
| that was needed FOR the enlargement oi
tie water system. hoping to delay Ii long
enough TO be able TO give It's own party
credit FOR H. 1t takes a similar position
| now. Unless the credit can he given 10
Its own crowd 1t will consent to no bond
Issue. even for educational purposes. And
that greedy. narrow minded and hypo-
| critical position is supposed to be repre-
| sentative of the party for which the or
gan claims to speak.
We do not know what the church or
gan expects to gain by such barefaced
| lying as that. The fact is that The
Tribune advocated the million dollar
issue during the Morris administration,
1t did this without any consideration
of what party was In power, but simply
for the interests of the city AS proof
we cite the following, which was the
leading editorial in The Tribune on the
morning of the bond election.
SHOULD VOTE THE BONDS.
There is before the property owners OF
this city. a proposition 10 bond the city
purpose OF supplying needed additional
water TO this city. and scwer!ng the
southern and southwestern portions OF
Salt Lake,
Jbnre lie opncIIon m about
the need for the water. nor the need OF
the sewers proposed
The plan on both propositions has been
fully explained, criticised, and the criti-
cisms answered. There Is no further need
OF argument. there Is no time left for
cautious fault-nndng.
The time has come for action. That
action must be on the proposition sub
mltted: there Is no other question be-
fore the people.
What shall the answer be? The Tribune
population. industry. and influence to
vote yes on the bond proposition, at
the polls today
1t is not too much to say that the
support of The Tribune for those bonds
was absolutely decisive in their favor.
The vote for the water bonds was 1855
in favor, and 992 against. ma.ority
for the bonds of 1863. 1t would have
been very easy for The Tribune in case
it had opposed those bonds to have over
come that majority. On the sewer bonds
the vote was 1865 for, and 92l against,
n majority for the sewer bonds of 344
Here, again, we are convinced that The
Tribune s support was decisive. With
out it the sewer bonds would have been
defeated
The Tribune encouraged the free dis
cussion of the bond question when the
was on, It met objections
against the bonds, and pointed out rea
sons why they should be voted What
possible object the church organ expects
10 gain by. such barefaced lying as it in
rlulged in on this matter on Monday |
evening, when il claimed that The Trib- |
nne opposed those bonds. we are utterly |
at n loss to understand And when it
mputes the motive it does in the para
graph quoted on the supposition that |
We opposed the bonds for selfish and |
PARTISAN reasons. the fact that We fav-
,red the bonds in spite of the fact that |
IN opposition party was in control of
he city's affairs, rebounds all the more
% our credit on account of the church
,rgan s Justification, Whereas we arc
accused of opposing the bonds because
,ur own party was not in power, and
10 were selfish and partisan, the
ruth is that we favored the bonds,
hough the opposition was in power
The News has on former occasions IN
imated this same charge that il made
EXPLICIT and absolute in its issue of |
Monday evening, We have uniformly
lenied the falsehood, and cited the fact.
We repeat the denial Of that falsehood
low, and our former affirmation of the
ruth that we supported those bonds, in
pite OF the fact that the opposition was
n power, a fact which the News gives
IS reason for its falsehood that we
opposed the bonds. Inasmuch as that
alsehood reacts so powerfully and as
he reasons alleged to our discredit turn
nut TO be so much the more to our ad-
'antage, we are really advantaged by
he News in its glaring falsehood; but
i'd not expect so complete, absolute and
.ratuitous exposition of the News's
and mendacity as it has
hown on this occasion.