The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1910-08-13
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TRIBUNE ALWAYS MAKES GOOD.

son, who has Just been found guilty
by the church committee. of a long
series of betrayal of trust and swind,
ling, exemplifies anew the fact that
The Tribune is careful in making
charges against any one, and where
those charges are serious is usually pre-.
pared to prove the truth OF them This
is shown by the fact that The Tribune
has had good many libel suits and
in every case has come out victorious.
1t proves its case. AS to Parkinson,
The Tribune was fully aware of the
gravity of the charges il made against
him, 1t made those charges against
Parkinson, and not against the Nor
mon church, as the church organ false
ly alleged. II that organ could get
out of its rut and sense the fact that
a criminal or offensive charge against
the individual is not an attack upon
its church, it would be in a far better
odor in ths community than it is since
at present it is very low in the public
estimation The church commission
did not seem to think that it was a
case against the church, for this com
mission emphatically found Park
inson guilty and refused, to stand by
him. The church repudiates Parkin-
son for his misdeeds, and rightly
so, washing its hands of him. Would
that it would do the same for other of
Tenders in place of shielding and
sustaining themt
The Tribune was conspicuously vim
dicated in this Parkinson case, but no
more so than it has been frequently be-
fore whenever il has been able to
briug the issue to test before any tri.
bunal competent to pass upon the case.
The public will remember the case
Of "Mutton Bill' Jones, whom The
Tribune charged with feeding rotten
mutton TO the inmates of the Infirmary
of Salt Lake county. The church organ
came to his relief, giving him com
pletc bill of health, denouncing The
Tribune as a liar. and said then, as in
the Parkinson ease. that we were simp"
ly trying to make trouble for the
church But when the case came on
for trial the jury condemned Mutton
Rill' Jones and upset also the News
as his defender, and completely estab-
lished the truth of The Tribune s
charges.
A number of years ago Z. II. Par
sons sued The Tribune for libel, alleg
ing that it had made false charges
against him. The Tribune, however,
proved absolutely the truth of those
charges, and the case was dropped.
Some time before that The Tribune
charged a man with prodding a young
fellow with n pin which he had fixed
on the end Of long pole. The young
man was riding on top Of car coming z
in from one of the bathing resorts. BY
reason of his being prodded with the
pin he lost his hold on the car. fell off
and was killed. The man charged with
the pin work threatened all kinds OF
retaliation and vengeance, libel suits
and all that sort Of thing, but he did
not bring them because The Tribune
stood by its story and proved ii.
These are only given as samples run
ming through a series of years where
The Tribune has been charged with
fasity and defamation. Every time
that it has been able to bring a case
before any competent tribunal it has
made good 1t has never been com
pelled to pay one cent for libel, bur
wherever it has been convinced that il
made an error 1t has been prompt and
generous in making good by way Of
explanation and retraction, if retrac-
tion was due.
All that The Tribune asks in any
case of dispute is to face those who
complain of it and make good its case
1t has never failed to do so in the
past, and we do not believe it ever will
fail to do so in the future
The Tribune is careful about what il
says. 1t makes no charges against any
one without full investigation. 1t does
not claim infallibility, of course, mol
does If plead exemption from the liza
bility to error that attaches to man
kind. In case of error it promptly
acknowledges the same, and makes
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confidenL of the truth of what it says
it sticks to it, and better still on The
test "makes good "-proves it's case
1t is great satisfaction to The
Tribune IN this Parkinson matter. thai
the church tribunal found as it did
precisely as The Tribune had charged
we being satisfied of the truth Of th,
charges made against Parkinson. Anc
If the church writers and speaker
would drop their bigotry and preiu
dice, would stor their childish whine
that when we allege any wrongdoint
in the case of an elder that it is il,
and is made not against the elder bu
against the church, there would be
far better standard of thought and o.
feeling in this community. We say il
this Parkinson case as We did IN th
case of other gross offenders, that th
Mormon church is not culpable at al
except in so far as it makes their evi
case its own by condonation, protec
tion and defence, In the case of Park
inson the church expressly condemns
repounces and shakes clear of him an,