Show KILLING FOR ONE of the most infamous things froni from an infamous source that we w have seen for a long time was the tb attempt of the liberal organ on 1 thanksgiving ving day to make it appear appeal that the wardell ward ell fiction was a fact fa and an actual infliction of abe death penalty for the crime of 11 if statement of 8 apostasy apo stacy any witness was ever completely an it was the story toly the poor cranky tool of the liberal 1 instigators of the latest attack od 00 5 american liberty not a shred of it was left we do not believe dozen roen in utah out of a lunatic asylum can be found who have read A the evidence and who believe wax war 4 t delps dells imaginary or fabricated testimony 4 01 mon Y the labored effort of the alb 1 I 4 oral org organ an was intended consumption this is one of its j w common exhibitions of chronic i mendacity after giving a colori and illuminated version of th tb wardell novelette it pretends to present the evidence in rebuttal as though to show both sides aides of the tb f story instead of doing so it SUP presses entirely the strong points in the rebuttal which punctured god and tore to tatters the painted and inflated j bag of falsehood that tb the 1 semi imbecile wardell induce to hold up and then resorts to absolute falsehood in order to turo aside the force of the exposure mad A by his hia family here it is ok of f it was discerned that the family the witness had adhered to th t church and at ai once they were summoned to say that they knew nothing of green or the murder as if them to no would have expected anything what are the facts why aba gardels Wardell War dels Ps son who the witness 0 swore drove greens teams am wagons into the tithing yard W W the first of the romancers fana sought for and called to testify B that he la Is an apostate having baving div up the whole bu business al ness 11 1 1 by VV blobel he be expressed his secession the church three years his evidence was not coull could not be impeached he drove the team the use of which was charitably given to wardell and family at the missouri river and that team only onay into this city the family all testified to similar effect they described the old mans failing of talking over imaginary affairs until he appeared to believe them himself rhey none of them knew anything about the man green other witnesses were brought forward as fast as it could be learnd who was in the train in which this horrible crime was alleged to have been committed and they all testified that no such thing occurred to their knowledge and that no BO such person as green was was in the aral train n the liberal organ exaggerates greatly the number of persons in the company and wants to know where are the other members who did not testify why the defense placed such a number of them on the witness stand that the court cried enough 11 and pointed out the fact that it was useless to further multiply the a already overwhelming proofs of the utter of the wardell story among all the fabricated horrors which have been liberally used for many years and exploded as this falsehood has been no one ever heard before of this green story which was sprung on the people leople in the vain hope that from its very novelty no means would be readily found to refute it whatever may be thought of the plainly cranky soul that was used to hold up this bew horror to the gaze of the world be he lunatic or liar or a compound of both no fair and honorable mind can fall fail to view with disgust and contempt the infamous effort of the liberal organ to make it appear that his falsehood is a fact and that it is evidence of mormon murder of apostates the same vile and reckless libelers and their associates have tried for many years to make the world believe that killing men for apostasy apo stacy was a doctrine of the mormon P 2 church they have never been able to t o substantiate their false assertions with a single scrap of proof and when challenged to name a case of the practice of such a monstrous mus creed they have utterly failed to do so for outside effect they have referred to the shooting of some noted horse thief or murderer or person guilty of crimes too filthy to name who in early times here received summary and deserved punishment for his guilt but never before have hav e they presented a case which seemed to bear the color of the crime which they charged against the mormon church and the committing of which would be in violation of its fundamental articles of faith and of revelations it holds to be divine we once more declare that there is nothing in mormon Y doctrine or teaching public or private which enjoins justifies excuses or palli ates the crime of murder which the killing of a human being simp ly for apostasy apo stacy would most assuredly lybe be we say again that the hundreds upon hundreds of persons who have apostatized from the mormon mona 1 church and who are still alive and have never been personally on attacked are breathing walking proofs of the falsity of the assertion that death is the mor mon penalty for apostasy apo stacy the liars who make the assertion aud and those who write it if they were capable of shame would long ago have been shamed out of their vain repetitions of this monstrous falsehood by the complete lack of anything in the shape of evidence but ut they appear to be incapable of feeling that chagrin which an ordinary falsifier would natura naturally fly experience under similar conditions and so without one scrap or shred of proof they continue to tell their old vile untruths un truths in order to accomplish com their base ends and work out their villainous purposes this whole web of wickedness and falsehood has been woven wove n by laderal Lide raP 1 1 leaders and lawyers for political purposes for a time they may seem to succeed they will chi chuckle ackle and guzzle over their fancied triumph but time works for truth and god is over all and when they imagine the prize bought by falsehood and dark intrigue is within their grasp their hands will be paralyzed the object of their ambition will recede and they will receive only humiliation and sorrow for their pains the just can afford to wait but they must watch and work also |