The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1910-01-01
ITS AUDAoIoUs HYPOCRISY

The DeSerct News is at times sort
of comical paper. We fear that it does
not altogether realize quite how comical
and absurd it is. An instance of its pro-
pensties, however, in its Thursday
evenings issue, is conspicuous even
among its many hypocrisies and ostrich
like protuberance,
Under the headline, GA Prevalent
Evil 1T commented upon a suggestion
of the Los Angeles Times that the
churches set apart day of meditation,
day of prayer and n week Of preach
ing all devoted to the ninth command
ment; and then the News kindly eX
planned that the ninth commandment is
the one which forbids the bearing of
false witness against ones neiohbor.
We have often directed the attention of
the public to the fact that the Des-
eret News is constantly bearing false
witness against it's neighbor, is lying
about the American party, and is mis-
representing conditions in this city, un-
scrupulouSly and scandalously, all the
time. 1t is itself the most conspicuous
offender (unless possibly its morning
yoke fellow) among newspapers. 1t is
constantly assailing the city admins
tratiou, railing personally against the
officials and generally against the city
government, It is doing this falsely,
knowing its statements to be false,
and it is doing it with malicious intent.
For paper Of that kind to come out
in approval of crusade against bear
ing false witness is one of the most
hypocrisies possible, but a
hypocrisy Of which it is often guilty.
But we do not need to refer generally
to the conduct of the News in this par
ticular, for Just following the editorial
referred TO there WAS one which no.
toriously exempli6ed the very evil
which the first named editorial so fer
vently condemned. Under the headline,
" AS Written for Salt Lake. it cited
an article in the Boston Transcript in
regard to city government, implying
that the government in this city is
corrupt, wasteful and abominable; and
il added its own comment on what 1t
termed :" American misrulc;' and it
asked whether an inquiry into condi
tions prevailing In this city would not
develop the same scandalous conditions
described in the Boston newspaper as
existing in Boston. Which, of course,
is an insulting calumny as we'll as ma
licious suggestion altogether. There is
not the least likening between the cor
rupt conditions in Boston and the fair,
open, business like methods prevailing
in Salt Lake.
But the particular thing that we wish
to direct attention TO is this open hy
pocrisy on the part of the church or
gan. 1t starts of with the proposition
that the churches should engage in sup
plication and strenuous endeavor to put
down the evil of bearing false witness,
saying that the pulpit itself is not
without sin in this matter and intimat-
ing that IL is some other vagabonds than
its own vagabondage that are engaged
IN bearing false witness against their
neighbors and making profitable
political business out of it. But GER
tainly no people in the world ever so
constantly, so persistently, so malicious.
ly, and so falsely bore false witness
against their neighbors as the priests,
prophets, seers and revelators of the
Mormon church; no persons ever so
greedily, so arbitrarily, so constantly,
made a profitable political business ont
Of their own mendacity; and their or
gan now has the gall to commend a
proposition TO pray, preach and labor
against this sin, of which they and
their organ are the most conspicuously
guilty offenders in the whole world.