Show LIBELS ON tiie THE CHURCH AND THE CITY THE new york mail nafi and express has h had bad a d considerable to say about the so called conspiracy to entrap gentile officials in this cit city and now in limaxes that the concoction of the them scheme may be traced to the church organization n and that men high in its cou councils counelis nelis nells nay may be indicted for conspiracy sp taen ja and E continually exposes its ignorance of utah affairs because it draws its information from the columns of the salt lake tribune and all who place any dependence on that kource are sure to be misled the name of that sheet in this region is a synonym for falsehood its regular patrons do not rely upon it f for or anything that relates to the mormon question because its distortion of facts and determination to misrepresent render rendel its statements entirely unreliable when the expected exposure of its friends and sup supporters the nasty beasts who had been wallowing in impurity rendered some desperate measure necessary to divert public attention that unprincipled sheet started the story that the city authorities had bad entered ino inn the business of open openly inic iniz and keeping houses of ill fame and t thad that 11 at they h had ad been prompted directed and support supporter eu in this by the mormon church it was charged upon the church and the mu municipality ulion alternately and then in concert sometimes one was blamed sometimes the other and then both were ivere attacked simultaneously these charges found their way into other papers through the medium of press reports a creature attached to the tribune be being 1 n the associated press agent in this city most of those press reports are condensed libels from trib une fabrications divested of their blackguardism people will believe any monstrosity or absurdity about the mormons cormons Mor mons for this reason papers will print the vilest rot that may be furnished them about the Mor mormon church the object of ringing in the church and city official officials s was to turn the odium from the debauchees debau chees to make male the public look in another direction and lo 10 furnish an excuse for off omm official lelal interference inter terence for their salvation the grand irand jury were specially directed to investigate this matter everybody that was supposed to know anything about it was subpoenaed before that inquisition nothing was left undone to try to implicate city and church authorities in the dirty business it was all in vain so far as the mainly desired object was concerned an indictment for conspiracy was made up and an alleged trial took place and this was all that was developed one man not a city official was shown on his own candid admissions m as well as the testimony of others to have engaged with two women in a scheme to detect the frequenters qu enters of vile houses he was supplied with money by a gentleman who is one of the selectmen of ave the county but who did not act in this matter in that capacity and who supplied the money from kis his his own private purse some policemen when off duty acted as detectives no evidence of any kind connected the city authorities with the scheme not a scrap of testimony traced the matter in any way to the church but the prosecuting 11 attorney who would not prosecute the exposed le chers made a strong point against the man on trial for detecting them in the fact that neither the mayor the city marshal the city attorney nor the city council had bad anything to do with the alleged conspiracy and that the defendant was not acting as a city officer but as a private citizen and the vile paper which star started tedi the story that the city authorities entered into the con sp iracy and which charged them with I 1 spending municipal money forthe for the purpose se of opening houses of ill fame alleging that they had fraudulently pretended it was for street purposes joined 1 in the tirade against mr hampton bei cause lie he had not acted under the authority of the city officers and they knew nothing of his bis scheme I 1 how is that for truth and consistency and how is that for journalistic impudence and E relies reiles on the truthfulness of the tribune TIri bune bene so it s says s we only ask that the new york 0 ryd daily dally I 1 w will i 11 refer to the salt lake tribune ilc tic nile file of the past few weeks compare the different lying stories that thai it has told on this matter from day to day and see its own refutation of its own calumnies calum nies it is not true as charged that bad women wei wel wele e imported lug into this this city to entrap gentile officials the two women paid for detective work were here engaged in their heir filthy business when mr hampton hired them the only importing in this case was done by federal officers who brought the women from denver after they had bad left this city women known to be plying their trade and who had kept their houses open for the accommodation of vile men were not interfered with by the moral officers only he two women who had cleared out were hunted up and brought back and that was not to put down prostitution but to use them to convict the man who had tried to put down prostitution tit ution by striking at the root of the evil the demand the support the filthy mentho men who cause the base traffic by c call cali a 1 11 ting ling in foi for for and purchasing the supply we ask sk the he press east and west to sift the testimony in this case and see where there Is a scrap of evidence to warrant the charge they have repeated against the city and the church we defy them to prove anything thing of the kindard kin dAnd we ask them as a ma matter ater of common justice to retract the accusations which they have copied when they perceive as they can it they will that the charge was groundless and their comments were uncalled lieu for aud and one thing more Is ig this not not pot plain to any reasonable mind no matter who ensued in this work ot detection that has made such a f furore the guilty wretches who have been detected tec in acts of beastly debauchery ought to be prosecuted on this point the mail vait anci and express while inveigh inc ins against the mormon baurch remarks the so called church that will employ such means to f urther further its ends I 1 is s of course deserving deservio de servin of execration by all decent people b but at the persons who were caught are none the less guilty guilt and should be prosecuted as thea they wili will be to the f full suil ail all extent of tile tiie the law the at X and E naturally expects that the guilty persons will be prosecuted and punished it is mistaken it does not understand affairs affair ts here at all the federal attorney has declared in open court that he will not prosecute them As fast as cases are proven against them in the justices courian court cour tan an appeal peal Ista is taken kento to the district court and they are turned loose without even a hearing bearing the only persons to be prosecuted are those who were as to detect the crimes the criminals are too high toned too anti antl mormon 1 I 1 too much in sympathy with the prosecution ec ution to be punished for their lechery that is the way the law is administered teredsa in this territory thatis that Is how hov the turbulent mormons cormons Mor mons are to be taught respect for federal authority that Is how the of morality Is to be upheld in utah let the mail and express and other papers ponder a little on these facts and not be in such haste to copy from an unworthy source and to jump at anti antl mormon I 1 conclusions clu |