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Show BBB Pay no Heed to Slander. BBB Itii to be regiotted that again the BBB columne of local ncwipapcra have been BBB opened to the repetition ef-nnVind, BBB prejudiced and falte cbnrgea agalmt BBB leading men In the community, and BBB particularly aaintt prominent Church BBB authorities That tone of the journal, BBB hich produce these ilandere are not BBB in accord nith their sentiments, la otI- BBB dent In ono particular caee from the BBB explanatory noto preceding the quoted BBB extracts, to the effect that "we do not BBB wish to be understood an putting thee BBB views forth ni our own or of endorsing BB lr"m no far ae they misrepresent the BBB actual etato of the eltuatien," the BBB reason for their lepetltion is that "our BBB reader may fully understand the iru- BB presuion that recent occurrences bao BBB produced throughout the country." BBB A journalistic anxiety to keep tbe BBB render posted upon ialshoods, abuse, BBB and partisan attaeka upon reputable BBB men and tiered institutions, is eonu- BBBj thing wMch very few honest winded I BBB people are inclined to give much credit , BBB 'or, H the receiver of stolen goods is ns BBB bad M the thief, the copyist and re-J BtBtL pcnlcr of known slander cannot be much higher than he who orijlnatc it. Especially does the foimor cotno In foi censure nnd eondemnatlon when he wilfully clrculntei that whleli ltoknoua to be untrue, without any attempt to correct tho itnpresalona sought to be eoneyedj vrlillo to confcfg by Implication Impli-cation a knowledge of tho fnlsit) of the matter and In the aatno breath declaim rosponilblllty for an Indorsement of it, ha very much tti'o niipenraneo of moral cowardice of tho most abject orl. It lea peculiarity of liiiinmi nntnre that a well-told and oft-tild tnlo flnnlly cornea to lm v to much the nppenrnnco of the truth to deceive not only thon who hear It but even thoso who tell It. The reiponslblllty for putting aucheltifr U circulation, nnd repeating It day nfter day, should therefore be properly placed in the outsot where It belongs. And n there can be but One effect of inch n oonrae and that la to destroy the Influence In-fluence A thoso whom n papor porinlta tobealtaekedond Itself lends n nllllrrr hand to the opecntlon it should lo held up promptly to acotn nnd cor-tempt. cor-tempt. It la nltnoat lnconccinblo thnt nnv journal protending to hao nt heart the welfare of the people of Utah and to bu desirous of their friendship, could enter upon n eourae so malicious end unjust. Yet every day gives proof that thero are Just such papers, nnd right here nt hone, too. Generally speaking, wo want to say that tbe thing is Infamous; It Is not only n disgrace to locnlpntilot-lem, locnlpntilot-lem, but an insult to tho worthy nnd honored men assailed, nndn baso nppet -to passions which every honeat voter ought te wlah to sue extinguished. At d list any eaatinl rcadei should be misled mis-led into believing thnt there must be somn truth In falshoods so often reiterated and not contradicted and denied each day by tho men w ho are attacktd, we want to any Hint most of them havo been denied before, and all of them aro easy to bo disputed nnd verthrown. But lies trnel fnstnnd multiply faater ; and no man ng.ilust whom such an attack Is deliberately made, eould hopo to keep his denials up to tho pace set, even If lie gao his whole time to It. Tho people of Utah need ,iot be ills-turbid, ills-turbid, therefore, because every falte. hoed uttered and repeated is not exposed ex-posed and denied ; they need not wonder if they soa honorable men' s names used unwarrantably or Improperly, their attlons noestioncd or condemned their motives questioned or impugned and all without a word of rebuke denial or explanation from tiictu. h others drag thslr unices into the slline of politics and through tho noisoicu ewer of slander, they nre under no obligation ob-ligation to descend to the same filthy level themselves; for if their wholo Uvea do net aupply them with n Justification, no words of theirs can help them out. This la an aigumcnl that their oncmiis do sot icem to count oil, but la ouc that their friends and the community at arge ought not to forget. News. |