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Show PERSECUTION. , V " There seems to be a disposition on the part of the Now York Sun, the New York Journal, Harper's Har-per's Weekly and various other aged and influential in-fluential journals to try to fix a large proportion of the responsibility for the frauds unearthed in the Post Office department upon the Hon. Perry Heath, the ostensible proprietor of the Salt Lake Tribune and a co-respondent in the case of the Salt Lake Telegram vs. a patient public. We need not say how grieved we are at this manifestation of partisan malignity. Has not the SUtute of Limitations made it clear that there li nothing of reproach or shame attaching to the Honorable Perry? Wo all know that the President of the United States is impetuous and given to expressing his opinions in a strenuous way and to those infirmities we ascribe his disposition dis-position to go behind the records and assail our esteemed fellow citizen, but those journals above mentioned and others seem strangely infatuated with an idea that Scotch verdicts and verdicts never reached because the courts have been estopped, es-topped, are not enth'ely satisfactory to an ignorant ignor-ant and provincial public, whion has never yet learned the fine distinction winch exists between a suspected thief and a gentleman against whom there is no cause of action on the records. We submit that when a young man who has, in former for-mer years, been a laborer and stableman, as the records show, removes to a virgin field, that has never been worked, and essays to grow up with the country, every opportunity should be open to him and he should not be taunted with old sinister idiosyncracles which came through youthful youth-ful inexperience, before he kiew that 'all was false and hollow and though tongues dropped manna, and could make the worse appear a better bet-ter reason, to perplex and dash maturest counsels." coun-sels." Those evil-minded journals should keep in mind that their malicious work can never hurt the truly good, that those of "the ethereal mould are incapable of stain and will soon expel their mischief and purge off the baevjr fire victorious." Is there not enough to criticise in the Philippines Philip-pines and on the Isthmus of Darian? Why should a quiet gentleman be pursued who is busy in trying try-ing to lift a community filled with frontier prejudices preju-dices up Into the Intellectual and moral sphere in which' he himself moves? Why pursue him and make him realize that "Long is the way and hard, taat out of hell leads up to light." Do they not know that the object of their vengeance ven-geance cannot be reached, that he is hugging to his soul the belief that he ls "Abdiel faithful found, among faithless, faithful only he?" That his morning and evening song is "More safe I sing, with mortal voice unchanged To hoarse or mute, though fall'n on evil days, On evil days though fall'n and evil tongues?" |