The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1910-08-22
ITS BIGoTED MEMDAOITY.


Ditch proposition in place of plunder
ing 1t. That in taking the treasurer
snip of the company he reluctantly
yielded to the opportunities of its
shareholders this "that he might pub
licly signify his deep interest in the
project " The developments show what
direction that deep interest took, and
the apostolic commission found that in.
terest TO be at once dishonest and scan.
dalous, unworthy of churchman in his
position. But the Logan paper finds
this to be simply that "discontent and
dlssensions have arisen until it seems
a victim ~ demanded TO bear the brunt
OF these nisfortuncs, - and that Park.
inson is that victim, The apostolic
commission. however. found that the
people that Parkinson had robbed were
the victims, and that they were fully
justified in demanding the investiga ton
which resulted so disastrously for Park
inson
The Logan paper finds also that "the
company has not lost one dollar of it,,
money by any act of it's treasurer, -
which, of course, is sheer falsehood.
True it is conceded, "Mr. Parkin
son drew n salary in his Office and col
lectcd certain expense accounts. but be
made 1t plain before the investigating
COMMITTEES that he had rendered val
liable services to the irrigation com
pany by obtaining legislation at Boise
City which brought the company up
wards OF $4,000. That is, Parkinson
as lobbyist obtained for the company
$4,000 which ii would not otherwise
have had, and by reason of this dis
honest act which cheated the State Of
Idaho, he is TO be excused. A queer
sort of defense that is, to be sure.
Still, anything will serve the purpose
OF helping a scandalous thief when the
advocate Of that thief finds it neces-
sary TO procure cloak. And, further,
the Logan paper says that "his expense
as handed In was economical in every
particular and appears to be a direct
compensation for services rendered. -
How an expense account could be at the
same time compensation might puz,
zle the common mind. but Parkinson
found no trouble in solving that diff.
hcult problem. He carried an expense
account without incurring expense, and
therefore his expense account was com
pensation. But singularly enough this
is exactly what the apostolic commits.
sion objected to, They did not think
that expense should yield compensation.
and they accordingly found that Park
lnson had robbed the company by charg-
ing this expense against it. and con
demned him without reservation for this
act of plunder.
Continuing, the Logan paper SAYS
that 'in regard to the man Caste whose
letters about the ditch scandal have
been appearing recently in The Salt
Lake Tribune, something should be
sald.' We should think something
ought to be said. There have been no
such letters, and Casio has not been
writing anything recently in The Salt
Lake Tribune about the ditch scandal
or about anything else The Caste let.
ters written along last spring and print
ed In The Tribune were undoubtedly
correct; so far as they related to Park
lnson s steal from the Oneida Irriga-
ton district. they were unauestionably
true. So far as they related to other
matters we believed them to be true
at the time they were printed, and we
still believe they were true. But in
stating that Casio letters have been
appearing recently in The Salt Lake
Tribune" the Logan paper states an alb
solute falsehood. With regard to Park
lnson S coercion of Caste, the LOGAN
paper undertakes to make il simply
personal attack upon CastoD when
In fact 1T was something far worse,
Casio was at Parkinson g house. They
passed the afternoon and the fore mart
OF the evening agreeably enough, in
conversation, without any menace. with
out any personal assault, without any
indication that Parkinson contemplated
any attack. Later in the evening Caste
was lured into the remote tithinp house
and there was compelled to sign a re-
traction, which was false, of what he
had then written for The Tribune,
which was true. The act of coercion
lasted for many hours and Caste held
out against the attempt to make him re-
tract until he wos chok ed into uncon-
sciousness and feared for his life. 1t
was not alone Parkinson that engaged
N this coercion, but a friend and abet-
tor of his whom Casio had previously
regarded as a friend also to himself.
The retraction obtained by this mur-
derous coercion was undoubtedly false.
and yet the Logan paper passes the
whole outrage off as simply ga per-
sonal attack made upon Caste in re-
taliation for vile and disrespectful Ian
guage applied to Parkinson by Caste.
Finally, the Logan paper finds that
on the whole the charges which were
sustained by the ecclesiastical court
when summed up do not amount to a
very great deal" Well, that does not
seem to be the community opinion, and