The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1910-10-30
SAMPLE FAKERIES.

ing to impose upon the public this year
as news service and as matter that
ought to be believed. We will give a
sample or two Just to illustrate the
point and lest the public should forget
the INSCRIPTIONS mendacity and CON
scienceless lying of the bunch. The
Smoot organ in a recent issue had this
precious editorial lift;
The population or Salt Lake has In
| creased 81 per cent in five years tho
| oity's indebtedness has increased so per
cent. and the general taxes have In
creased over 100 per cent How do you
| Ike that
That undoubtedly WINS intended to
score against tho American party.
But the American party has nothing at
all TO do with "the general ta1es' and
anyway the general taxes have not in
creased over 100 per cont, or anything
like It, in five years. The fact is that
The general taxes remain about as he
foro, being limited for the State by the
constitution, and are uniformly at the
highest rate allowed. The county taxes
are beyond all reason more than is nee
cssary, and the county commissioners
are obliged to Fthrow money at the
birds' in order to get rid of the enor.
nous revenue that thoy exact. There
has been mere fractional increase in
the school tax and in the city tax, and
as TO the latter, abundant benefits ap-
pear on every hand for the small in
crease that has been made. Every one
who is in the least interested in taxa
tion knows the utter falsity of the
Smoot organ s claim; and the wonder
IS that 1T has the gall to present it to
public that is able to read
Another "gem' from the same source
the same morning was as follows:
a glccfUl Democrat said the other day:
We are going TO win this time because
there Is more activity at Democratic
State Headquarters than l have ever
seen seen there since have been connected
stander remarked You're arguing
from a false premise. brother They
haven't any more hope this time; they
merely have moro money" And the
speaker cast reminiscent look toward
Provo.
Undoubtedly this is intended for
slur at Uncle Jesse Knight Of Provo;
and yet it is not go long ago that this
same paper run by the same Federal
bunch gang occupied a whole editorial
page to present big portrait and boom
Of Jesse Knight great things done for
the State, his eminence as a citizen,
and his purity as man Of affairs and
Of political morality. Now, however,
ho is simply political bung starter for
cash, according TO the Federal bunch,
and must be slurred accordingly. A
desperate and rascally change of front,
sure enough.
Then, there was the fake about the |
chairman Of the American party and the |
chairman of the Democratic party get |
ting together and inviting the chairman
Of the Republican party to Join them in |
eliminating names Of dead people from
the registration lists This was too much |
for even tho chairman of the Republican
party, who denied it scornfully, through
the News. And even that yellow organ
was disgusted with it's party organ 3
falschood.
And look at this as a report of the
great meeting addressed by E1- Sena-
tor Cannon in the Colonial theater.
Just back of the page upon which
this dishonest and miserably up-
worthy report appears is tho motto
of that paper, "Truth and Lib
erty.' AS perverted that motto ap-
pears really to be interpreted as liberty
to lie at will. But here is its report
of that meeting:
Frank ]. Cannon. one time resi-
dent of this state. but later employed
on a Denver newspaper, delivered an
address before an American rally ~
tho Colonial theater Saturday evening,
HIS romarks purported to contain ex-
past fifteen years, but his modesty ap-
parently forbade mention OF the whole
OF the part taken by himself In making
that history lie said ii was his plan
setting forth his views OF the situation
In Utah. and he had temporarily aban-
doncd his Colorado position to come
here and finish the articles" AS a
sort OF "hll in he accepted an invita-
tlon TO speak nt the american" rally
Saturday night.
lead from the right" the tip Of thc
head the pointed finger. and all the
erstwhile oratorical accompcniments
were there, but those who attended in
the desire OF being "elcctrlhed' with
fiery .eloquencc' were painfully dsap-
pointed in Mr. Cannon's address The :
history he purported TO quote was all
old. everybody know tho ancient man
nerisms'' and "catch phrases" and the
effort; as a whole. fell fiat. s
What an utterly dishonest report that
is! To say that anyone was "painfully
disappointed in Mr.. Cannon IS address,
as the chief church organ does, is to de-
iberately state what the writer of il
Knows to be a scandalous untruth. 1t
was splendid address, received with
delighted enthusiasm by an audience :,
that crowded the Colonial theater to the
init and extended out into the lobby
Il is hard to believe that anyone claim
ing any sort of standing for truth or
lecency would dismiss that speech in
such dishonest and unworthy manner
Is that. s
SELF LF-CONFESSED HYPOCRITES,