The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1913-06-10
PADEN ASSAULT PETERS OUT. ,

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PADEN ASSAULT PETERS OUT" :"
The Deseret News is surely the vic
| tim or some sort of sickly halluciua.
tlon. it has the affrontery to say that
The Tribune in this Paden matter sEis
forced into corner. when the truth
IS that II is the News and It's morning
ally that are forced into a corner Tbev
accused DR.. Paden OF certain stnte.
nents against the people OF Utah and
particularly against the Mormon inhab.
itants here. The Tribune wired to DR..
Paden the charges appearing as sum.
married. in the box-head in the Smoot
organ, which is the News's ally in this
vicious assault against him. DR., Pa.
den denied absolutely and completely
everything charged He had said moth.
ing OF the sort.
Then the reply was made that Dr.
Paden was an ally of The Tribune
and a member of the American party
here, and that the presumption was
that he was guilty whether he was
guilty or not. At the same time it was
said that DR.. Paden had opposed the
American party and antagonized The
Tribune in the election of 1911. when
the American party was defeated. That
Is to say, DR.. Paden was an American
party man, and was also against the
American party; he was working with
TIN rriynp, ,1e "a
cause he had worked with the Ameri-
can party and with The Tribune. the
presumption was that he was guilty;
but there was no presumption of inno-
cence allowed in his favor because he
had opposed the American party and
opposed The Tribune. This is what
the News refers to when it mentions
the reductio ad absurdum argument
in this case, and 1T says that the cita-
tion is void Of logic and "more than
usually clumsy even for that paper "
meaning The Tribune But it is cas-
Ter to say that this is devoid of logic
and clumsy than to prove the allega-
tion. To our mind the argument fits
like glove, and is conclusive,
Referring to the claim that DR.. Pa
den has completely denied all of the
charges, the News has the following
paragraph in its sloppy and squirmy
editorials
Our correspondent also stated that the
object of the Paden crusade is to array,
II possible, the government against the
Church. 10 deprive the people OF Utah
of their right IN e1pPf their
tives in Congress; TO exclude Mormon 1T
erature from the mails and to ask the
government to seize the property OF the
Church Dr. Paden did NOT deny
this.
DR.. Paden did not deny these things,
of course. There would he no sense in
his denying these things. There is no
charge that DR.. Paden said any of
them, only that the correspondent Of
the Deseret News is convinced that
these things were meant. But the at
tempt to hold DR.. Paden responsible for
the conclusions arrived at by some scat
tered-witted correspondent of the Des-
eret News, or even for the conclusions
drawn by the narrow minded, stupid,
malignant editor of the News, is
too silly to mention. Dr. Paden an
swers the charges as to what he has
said. To call upon him to deny the
conclusions drawn by some correspon.
dent is certainly pressing things be.
yond the limit. Dr. Paden is not un-
der the least obligation TO deny any
thing as to anybody's conclusions as
to the object of his work, and it is
utter nonsense to put a thing Of this
kind up to him as something that he
ought TO disclaim.
A curious feature Of this assault
upon Dr.. Padcn is that it seems TO he
assumed by his assailants that he is
answerable for what anyone may say
whom they can charge with being one
of his associates, " Thus, a para.
graph in it's editorial on this subject
in last nights News is as follows:
Then again Miss swartz, one OF DR.
Paden's associates in the crusade. in an
address reported by the Sioux city Jour
nal OF May "a. said substantially all that
our correspondent attributed to DIR, Paden
and his associates In the anu"Mormon"
booth. The denial OF The Tribune is
futile and silly.
We should say that the thing that
is. "futiIe and silly is to attribute
to Dr. Padcn the things not said by
him, the only excuse for quoting them
being that they are g associates Of
DR.. Padcn Surely here is case where
9 reductio ad absurdum specially its. |
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