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Show Dl.NN'A l'K 1IEAH? Oh, for the perversity of a fanatic which, "taking root in the heart assumes as-sumes the Bhape of malignity." The daily Lannan cannot yet see but what the Illustrated American is all right and all the people of Salt Lake city all wrong. Jt is still willing to "take up the article in the magazine and take assertion asser-tion by assertion and establish that in tho main the statements of tho purported purpor-ted facts are true." Mr. Pembroke, you and your fellow eoiinoilmon; C'olonol Lett, you and your real estate exchange; Judge Colburu, you and your chamber of commerce; Marshal Parsons, you and your friends and the rest of the community, are au ignorant set and know licit whereof you allirm. Thus saycth Pat Lannan, the Mighty. When he declares a "purported fact to bo true," it behooves the rest of the world to accept the bull in reveroud silence: si-lence: Ho is au expert in bulls. t is true. then, find pan he established that the mormons are ready to light for the continuance of polygamy? It is true, then, that to uphold that principle "those simple farmers are prepared to butcher women and children, chil-dren, and as for facing troops, they are taught every Sunday in their meeting houses that a collision is inevitable, and tbey have long beeu prepared for it?" It is true, then, thaf'the collision can not be delayed," and "the ulcer must bo cut out with the sword?" Ity tho decree of all the littlo gods and tho big boss, then, grim visaged war is staring us in the face. The collission, you see, is inevitable and it "cannot be delayed." It may steal in any time like a thief in the night. Patrick Pat-rick has smellcd gore before. Now, we care nothing for tho Illustrated Illus-trated American or for tho liar who inspired in-spired tho calumny upon Utah contained con-tained therein, though we could put our index linger ou his brazen cheek without traveling far, but wo do care for the motive that animates tho scoundrel scoun-drel in his nefarious plot. We do care for tho . injury ho works to our good name, to our credit and to our commercial com-mercial interests among the people whose esteem yve seek. Tho Illustrated American is nothing to us. Wo believe, as wo said yesterday, yester-day, enough has boon done to refute the slander it published and we might stop there. But tho public indignation aroused by tho articles ar-ticles in question is directed against the persistent falsehoods circulated against us, of which the one quoted is merely a sample. And tho general sentiment is it must stop right here and now. Diuna ye hear the slogan? |