| Show THE DISPATCH FIEND AT WORK THE salt bait lake dispatch fiend is again at work garbled accounts of an all alleged aged report of the utah commission to the secretary of the interior have been sent over the wires and the evident effort of the fiend is to stir up anew the periodical excitement cit ement about dAmy and polygamy 11 it might appear rather strange that the dispatches should be dated salt lake city it would be naturally supposed that they would e emanate from washington if the commission had made its annual report and filed it in the usual way but to persons who un dere der tand stand how these anti mor imor mon furors are worked up the matter is easy enough they all start from the same lying centre and are sent out with the same nefarious object it is another liberal political plot what is wanted is the disfranchisement of all the mor mons that the minority may rule utah and gain control of the treasury it Is asserted in these dispatches that the commission believe thab more than eighty plural marriages have been contracted since june 1893 and that only a small proportion have been reported 11 we do not believe the commission has said anything of the kind if this statement has been made it has been uttered without foundation and for a malicious purpose the courts have no such information and it is only gossip at the utmost we can scarcely credit the assertion that the commission have said this we believe it is an invention of the dispatch fiends and one of his old tricks for which neither the associated press nor the commission nor the public who desire authentic news will thank him when the commissions report is filed and published we will refer to this matter again the alleged reports circulated either by telegraph or in any other way before the official report is filed and from 4 a source outside of the commission are burdened with suspicion and not tu to be relied upon |
