Show LIES ABOUT tho salt lake city council and chamber of commerce have done themselves proud in refuting the malicious lies published about salt lake and utah they have done so in unmistakable terms and it will undoubtedly result in much good but ano evil does not lie solely with newspapers published abroad the suggestions of the salt lake times regarding the lies published in the tribune is worthy of special consideration era tion it says it is all very well for us to resent with indignation the falsehoods ettere l about utah in the east il is all very well to protest against the malicious libel the cormons mormons are preparing for a war of extermination at an early day it is all very well to pass resolutions in the city council and chamber of commerce for alie purpose of reassuring the people in the east that we are not hell bent on rebellion and treason as the illustrated asserts but why should e visit our wrath upon a sensational paper several thousand miles distant when right at home we have a journal that is never so liappa as when it can stir up the embers of strife and lan the fires of hatred in our midat what the american avers in a spasm of morbidity that does alif daily caunan maintain in its normal condition and what the former is supposed to retain at second hand that the latter is believed 10 draw fresh from the fountain head if the brutal attack in the illustrated american calculated to destroy our credit abroad was not incited in the daily lannan office it was certainly inspired there and promptly after it had appeared in the pictorial the daily claonan quoted from it at all it dared with spontaneous approval and at we try to harpoon the minnow mid let the whale glide on we chastise cha the gamin and toler te the tramp suppose tho illustrated american should instead of retracting the lies it published fortify itself with quotations from the daily lannan and reiterate its statements what then the least thine that might ha expected of the home paper is loyalty to home interests the daily lannan wallows in riot it would proclaim to the world that the union pacific are to be removed from salt lake city though there be not a shadow of truth in it than to dve support to tho Ro vernora official report that life and property aro perfectly safe in utah when you condemn fellow citizens begin nearer home |