Show LIBERAL FALSEHOOD AND ABUSE THE liberals who are on the are nothing if not untruthful when they are not telling direct falsehoods they are engaged in misrepresenting facts and figures in such each a way that the effects are of agi a similar milar character perhaps it is un nece necessary seary to take the trouble to refute anything they advance for after all their efforts amount in the main to a hullabaloo and the making of night hideous by the discordant yells of a lot of rowdy urchins and a few adults whose part of the shout when the gramme pro is to vituperative orators stop to catch their breath it is not likely that the election will be materially affected by these noisy and abusive proceedings but there are some statements made and inferences drawn which may need explanation lest it be said that they axe are unanswerable and go as challenges to reply are as numerous almost sh as the errors advanced an answer DOW and then will be perhaps the proper thing for instance one liberal noted chiefly tor abr anti mormon fanaticism so bitter that it affects his whole character r and appearance warps what might have been a legal mind and db disfigures figures what might have been a pleasant countenance has been reading to his audiences some extracts tr from a debate in the legis damre of 1882 in relation to delinquent taxes of counties and after doing so ao has referred to this as proof that the peoples peopled party are responsible for robberies as bold as ever were perpetrated on the public highway also that many thousands of dollars have been I 1 taken from the public treasury of salt bait lake county and further that in summit county they stole it now we draw attention to the aa 1 fact that neither the debate nor the atu reo mentioned in it nor au ariy A thing else produced by the speaker prove that either the peopled party or any public official or anybody else had stolen a dollar the delinquent taxes referred to could not have been taken from the public treasury for the simple reason that they had never been in the public treasury the explanation is sim lole under the territorial la laws wa the total amounts of the taxes assessed in the several counties are charged up to the collectors whether they succeed in collecting them or not they owe them after a certain date the county courts are required to make regular financial reports to Legislature the from these it has appeared from time to time that the full amounts of the taxes assessed have not been paid in why not because anybody had stolen the money but because it had not been collected how a man can steal that which he has not received and how a party can have stolen funds that nobody has handled remains for liberal logic to explain taxes have been not only lecter but in many instances were through the removal of the property owners from the territory for instance A disinclination cli nation to sue and sell a mans home for taxes has worked in this dereliction such sympathy and dereliction of duty may be wrong but it is not stealing liberals have been very abusive of peoples peopled party collectors who were compelled to levy on peo peopled pleIs property for nonpayment non payment of taxes if the officers enforce payment the liberals call them brutes if they do not enforce collection they call them ct thieves hieves 11 in either case they are the subjects of Libe liberal raP vituperation pe ration the debate read from was not over money stolen by anybody but as to the disposition of old accounts called delinquent taxes which it appeared could not be collected and not a scintilla of proof appeared that any officer had stolen dollar either from the public treasury tre or from any other source the recommendation of the committee was that those old taxes that had been assessed before the revenue law of 1878 was passed should be remitted not because any one had stolen the money but because it had not been collected and under the law of 1878 could not be collected collect ei el and this is seized upon by soured and venomous anti mormon stump speakers as proof of embezzlement by the peoples peopled party truly they must be hard up for campaign sheet iron thun thunder derl the course pursued toward the legislature by a county cou nty clerk who refused to render such a specific and detailed account as a committee of the house required is cited by the same speaker as proof that the peopled ale s party had been stealing the t h e public funds what are the facts why that the legislature passed a vote of censure against the clerk for his improper conduct that his party repudiated him and that he suffered from that rebuke to the day of his bis death but there was no element of stealing or embezzlement in that act of discourtesy neither was anything dishonest alleged to attach t it the same speaker mentioned tire the names of two collectors of salt bait lye LP lie county who were short in their accounts and whom he described as defaulters default ers and also declared that their bonds were worthless and nothing was recovered the term official plunderers plunder erb is used against the leaders of the peoples peopled party in this connection the truth is that both those officials were proceeded against for not paying up the full amount of the tax assessments and that they had involved themselves through not enforcing collection in each case their private property was turned over to satisfy the claims against them in one case judge snow was waa appointed as referee and received a deed of trust from the delinquent collector as security for his bondsmen in the other case the bondsmen were proceeded against and did make a settlement with the county court thus a little fact is mixed up with a good deal of fiction and the usual asdal liberal tactics are resorted to in order to convey a faue false impression and draw conclusions which are totally unwarranted I 1 by the premises I 1 the remedy for unsatisfactory conduct in a public official is to drop him and see that he be does not have the opportunity to offend aga inThis has been done by the peoples peopled party it is the only consistent political course to go over to the enemy because a friend has not fulfilled ones expectations would be suicidal and idiotic yet that is what the liberal orators want peoples party voters tp to do the party can correct its own errors if there are any to correct cor and need not go to men who belie it and falsely ao cuse case it and work to deprive its members of every political right and privilege the liberal party has for its chief object the utter disfranchise ment of every member of the mormon church and yet its orators have the impudence to ask mormons cormons Mor mons to vote for liberal candidates the liberal party falsely charges the peoples peopled party with stealing ng and embezzlement and robbery and then asks peoples peopled party voters to support liberal office seekers libel I 1 lers and defamers def amors amers this is in line f with its peculiar logic and should be enough to defeat its nefarious ini tent |