Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1910-03-08
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say about Newspaper duly.
Under the caption Newspaper
Duty the Dcserct News of Friday
contained a leading editorial which
Was partially boo criticism of "a recent
lecture delivered by Professor Joshua
a. Paul upon this subject and which
was evidently Intended o. also justify
/ the course ~ the church organ as come
pared with that Of Tho Tribune. The
/ following sentences appeared iu that
article.
"It b. evident that much discretion
! is required Co decide Just what events
concern the general public. and which
ones are none Of their business. Fol
the paper cannot, of course. print aII
that happens; and II b. could nobody
would be- able 90 read DO. a selection
must be made. "a fine opportunity for
| choice Is afforded
1T Is a well known fact that tho
| News exercises the choice Indicated.
| What Il regards as being no business OF
| the general public u.s. for instance. the
| Troublesome or the polygimous prac-
| tlco within the Mormon church. 10 has
steadily refused 90 print the names of
new polygamists or 90 in any way call
proper attention 10 tho many Instance
| Of this manner Of breach Of the public
peace and destruction Of the public dig
nifty. The Tribune is possessed Of some
facts connected with new polygamy
and new polygamists that no newspa-
per could print and observe the postal
regulations"
Taking the last sentence first IL is
notorious here that II that paper pos
scssed any such fact" or even rumora
| II would already have hcralded theu
IN every conceivable form. From its
own words. too. the Tribune profc.sea
TO exercise some choice as 90 what 10
| prints. The Dcscret News prints what
| over the facts are, but not the rumors
| and trumpcd-up scandals expressly in-
| tended o. iniure and defame an entire
community that is In no way rcsppn-
siblo for them.
No sane and moral-minded people arc
| DESTROYS Of reading slander1us diatribes
founded on suspicion and hearsay; os-
| pecially when such articles are pub
/ lished not for the sake Of exposing enc
| individuals supposed 10 be concerned
in them, but for the purpose OF bring
Ing undeserved odium upon an entire
people.
As 20 making choice Of what IL
| prints the News" assuredly does go.
but not in the sense suggested by the
/ anti-"Mormon" zeal1t For instance.
| when rumor had II that the Tribune
/ was edited by man who was reported
20 avoid the repayment Of friends from
whom he borrowed money. the News
did not parade that rumor I'm daily
columns. nor base upon IL uucudue
editorial arguments TO the effect that
since one Liberal" or American
party leader. seemed 20 b. devoid ri
| honesty therefore an Of the members
% that party were UNIT 90 exercise
tho rights OF citizens That is tho
| Tribune method, not ours.
Il would not have been difficult for
any paper that cared % do so. to am
its pages with accounts and comments
upon the careers and dolnqucucies OF
others connected with the anti-"Nior-
mon sheet; but q is 10 be- said. Co the
credit OF the local press generally. that
nothing Of the kind has been under
taken by any of the daily papers
or course, every paper has tho Same
legal right 10 be- "a isckal NJ journalism
that tho Tribune has; that none. how
| over chooses Go exercise o. legal right
80 dcpravcd. proves that none has set
been contaminated boy its example.
The sheet almost daily insinuates that
the News" does not print certain al-
legged events that ON so large % space iG
its own trashy and slanderous columns
! Certainly not. this paper does not dress
up and publish vague rumors and ma
uciuus SANDERS. and then base lengthy
editorials upon them, as that paper
docs iu order 90 please "a doprlved per-
sonal desire for revenge because its
owner was not returned to public office
For tho "Ncvs" has mo- Owner Goa
the sense that tho Tribune has 10
cannot boz bought Ton sp many dollars
as the Tribune has been. II canuot Doe
used to vent the spleen of any ndvid-
ual or clique upon any class of people
whatever II has never published oa-
-aults that have been offered TO 30 upon
the personal honor off either tho owners
or tho editors OF the sheet that has for
o. long time made of such business it.
principal vocation.
&c. too. the orgaDs idoa that u.s.,
were seeking Co criticize the position
taken by the principal speaker &C IN,
civic forum meeting, is mere error
We simply carried some of the view
expressed 10 their logical conclusion.
Thus tho speaker himself declare.
that whenever the spirit of reform 20
municipal Affairs becomes somcwha
general among the people of New Yorl
city. "tho Tammany organization talk
about the tariff and thereby secure.
most of the Democratic vote u
Philadelphia the dominant ring take
care Co. talk protection % home indus
try. whenever the citizens begin 20 n
qmre about municipal rasgality."
How like the devious course 90 O.,
local American" orgsnl
And we commend 90 the organs at
tention the summary made by "a,
speaker in regard 20 the Hnnubb
sign" that there is something rotten 81
Denmark" which partisan newspaper
seek to conceal. He said:
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