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Show LIKE A BROTHER. SIIhI Mr. J. F. Gibbs, of the Free Lance, published BrnllH down at Marysvale, will get himself disliked if he filial continues, in his present frame of mind, to tell- SHIBI what he thinks. He should be disciplined. He is4 H9I a Mormon, but believes in a square deal. Ko wSffiffl i JESHHHfl Hi I ill I calls the editor of the Provo Enquirer "a liar" and Hf .4 ! "an assinine bigot" and "servile imbecile," and 1 ill 1 more terrible still proves that he is telling the f 'lll II truth. The immediate provocation was that Mr. 1 'ilji Lawrence and Mr. White in the Legislature op- 1 I'l i posed the election of Mr. Smoot in a manly, hon- IL 111 ' est way, and the Enquirer referred to them as B i "railing against the Churcn," and to White espe- Bf ''ill ' cially "as rampant against the Cnurch," and as 1 'iii repeating "all the old fabrications and -mythologi- B 11 cal yarns he has read against the Mormons." All B ! this the Free Lance disproves by copying exactly B " g what those gentlemen did say and then proceeds B , i to analyze the character, or want of character, of B ffl I . the Enquirer editor, and to establish beyond the B 4 S I peradventure of a doubt that such editor is com- Iljlj 1 posed oi quite 98 per cent base metal. It is amus- j'ijf ' ing, if not instructive, to watch brother Gibbs -' ft i as he dissects his Provo brother, il is particularly 1 1 . pleasant to the writer of this because in the past l',i I he has been forced a few times to mildly expostu- B hk I late with that same Provo editor, and for it has B ilMl been advertised in turn as the special enemy of H ' fiM "this people." B i gli The only weak feature of the Marysville edi- B fjl tor's arraignment is that he was "hunting snipe B H i with a Howitzer," game which, if bagged, is worth B jjf I lar less than was the ammunition fired to bring B WSJ j it down, for the Enquirer editor has been both an Hj li r imbecile and liar from his youth up. B 1 Hi i He mortsaged his soul in the long ago to be a H IPfi1 slave for life and he has been faitnful to his cove- Hi r V I .' I nants. il ill' I But tne Marysvale editor notices that Apostle B l!jg 1 John Henry Smith's and John Booth's names are B i ifc I at the head of the Provo paper and asks, wonders' wonder-s' J 'I i ingly, if tnose men endorse what the editorial im-B im-B Jti il ' becile wres. No matter about Booth, but as to I j'ljl B John Henry, if the Piute county editor thinks that HI p il ' anything which the editor of the Enquirer could HI 'ik. 'E publish, no matter how perverse, would be too HSR Hi ' ItlB HS 1 'I ' much for John Henry, he is mistaken in his diagnosis diag-nosis of him. John Henry is an apostle, except for his too earnest efforts to save his soul through the most approved Latter-day formula, he would have been in Apostle Smoot's place, and hence anything like a reproach upon the politics of Brother Smoot, is held in Apostle Smith's eyes as an indirect reproach upon himself. For a purpose pur-pose of its own the chiefs of the church pushed the candidacy of Apostle famoot with the. result , that any criticism of him is really an arraignment of the First Presidency and the quorum of the Twelve, ana in John Henry's estimation no abuse of any such critic is half severe enough. Why thirty years ago John Henry, while not advising the blood-atoning of such a culprit, would have thanked God if it had been done. Come to think of it we believe John Henry feels the same way still. |