The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1911-03-17
Condemns Those Who Gave
Their Side of Controversy
Over Evolution TO Public.
CHURCH ORGANS IGNORE
CAUSE OF STUDENT BODY
The Tribune Is Praised for Fair
and Impartial Manner of
Handling Case.
Special 10 The Tribune.

Specisl 10 The Tribune.
PROVO, March l6.-Students Of the
university were high in their praise to-
day OF the fair and impartial minncr In
which The Tribune presented their side
OF the evolution controversy. AT the
same time they were deeply offended
that the morning and evening organs OF
the church in Salt Lake had refused TO
print the protest of the student body
against the proposed dismissal Of the
three professors who had been teaching
evolution and the higher criticism.
Copies Of the protest or petition" were
sent to the Dcseret Evening News and
the Herald Republican and the students
felt confident that their side of the con-
troversy would be presented in these
n wspaperS. What was their surprise
and CbaGrn this morning TO discover
that the only paper 10 give them hear
ing was The Tribune a cu
man department read The Triounes
story this morning he pronounced it a
fair and accurate presentation OF tho
news. President BrImhali, however. was
not In commenda;ory mood and he
even took occasion In the hour assigned
| for devotional exercises TO denounce the
students for making public their pro-
| test.
The arrival of the Deseret Evening
| News tonight caused no little amazement
| because OF IT'S attempt 10 discrcdit The
Tribune's story An editorial paragraph
| appended 10 a long editorial condemning
| the evolutionary theory reads:
Since these paragraphs were writ
ten We have received word from the
| students in Provo. over the tele-
phone. 10 the effect that they are
| misrepresented in The Tribune.
Nothing else can he expected from
that paper.
on another page of the paper appears
| q N mo lrl il ln
| form OF telegram from this city. II
| reads.
Especial to The News)
Provo March is-The following
statement addressed To The Editor OF
| The News, was issued today:
Editor Deseret News,We wish to
| correct the Impression thai has gone
! out concerning the attitude OF the
| Brigham Young university students
| 10 the presidency OF the Brigham
moImtng's HTS % rri6une riiS e. We We Sc sent L the the
| same statement To The Deseret Ncws
and to The Herald Republican that
we sent TO The Tribune. The head
lines and Introduction in The Trib
une mtsrcpresent the spirit of our
article The statement ate that the the
destroyed by the students is false.
| That statement WAS very considc1ate
and was well received by the student
| body The impression that The TrIb-
| une would also give out that We arc
attempting to dictate the policy OF
the school is also false
(Stgncd)
COMMITTEE OF STUDENTS.
The students did not expect that the
church organ would go so far as to print
an anonymous communication IN an at
tempt 10 defend the position OF the church
authorities and throw odium on the stu
dents. II committee did send in such
a communication TO the church ncwspa-
per. they ask, why did rot the paper use
the names OF the members Of the COM
mIttcc? They feel that no Intelligent
body of men should resort To anonymity
in any dispute, but least Of all In a dis
pute that has TO do with university cdu-
cation and the facts of science.
The correspondent OF The Tribune was
Informed that tho answer OF the prcsi-
dcncy he'd been burned" by the students.
The Tribune. however merely used the