Show W. G. FRANK GANNON AND JOSIAH GIBBS It is surprising that some people will live in Utah from thirty to fifty years and never find out how bad the people of this state are until the Tribune tells them and hires them to write Frank Cannon was born and reared in he was called on and filled a Mormon he lauded the Mormons at home and sang their praises Joseph F. Smith was called to the presidency of the Mormon church Cannon spread the pages of the newspapers with letters which said that Fielding was a a wise and a good and that he was called of God to lead the But after forty-five years of service and praise for the Frank got drunk one and in his condition he saw by the Tribune that to be a Mormon and live a clean life was a great mistake he also saw that if he would be a Benedict Arnold or a Judas and betray his father and his his friends and his church and his he could get thirty pieces of silver from the Salt Lake Tribune for so Frank chose road of and from that time while he remained in rum and were his gods the gutter his Josiah Gibbs was another Tribune Josiah pretended to be a good Mormon for many years he served on a Mormon mission like Jacob of took unto himself plural About years ago one of Josiah 's wives could not stand his crooked and hypocritical ways any and secured a divorce from The Mormons discovered that he was a Judas and fired him from the without a wife was an object of The in searching through the of Mormon castaways discovered It gave Josiah a bath with holy water from Kearns's Island of anointed him with ointment and banqueted him on baked beans from the off state of and being repaired in the above manner the Mormon pioneer was duly qualified and elected to the Tribune editorial It was and not till then that Josiah discovered what an awful state Utah And now the poor old Tribune has gone into the graveyard insurance busi-ness equal to the graveyard insurance swindles of It has brought W. C. alias before the Smoot Atkinson is a very old man in his second he was one of the original pioneers of For over fifty years Smoot was a good citizen and a fair friend of But the jarring of the many recurring has polarized his brain and bedimmed his Tribune bitterness and hatred have taken possession of his and he is ready to slander and betray the friends and their offspring who stood with him during the long pioneer years' in in his aged is ready to sign and say yes to any licentious document the may place before The Gentiles of Utah are getting their eyes open to the disreputable methods of the Tribune and the irresponsible or the licentious that are filling its columns with so much anti-Utah |