Show aether Slanderer Appears a Common Defamer Kv Utah People as n first issue that Hoe with an-e have IB papers now Lake Goodwin's fountain Adder's the fiam Frank Um E. B. i a other Utah Bf W cannot ride in the lie tries dynamite Reiser has taken upon annihilating the deral By and false po-Vs to enlist the sym- auy ardent to help In his Hr o April ls imitating and copy- and after the Salt Lake r Ia ct on pages 1 and the The of his quotations e on the pty the Trib- Tribune Platform demands Party were K F That the church leaders keep the pledges which they gave to the people of the United States and upon which sovereignty as a State was granted to it would be difficult to determine wherein even the Deseret News could find anything un-American in that April Bulletin's on the above that American party exists because Reed Smoot and his satellites caused its creation and continually furnish the pretext for its contentions enumerated the high-handed conduct of in dragging the name of an honored church into the mire at political and contrary to the desire of the people and the promulgated policy of the get rid of and you kill forever the The dawn of that happy day is Readers Desire to As to the first I desire to ask the Mormon a in Can you show any or command from the head of the Mormon Church for the Mormon people vote ticket to support chosen individual in any political know last fall that individual Mormons like Nephi stake advised Mormons to vote the Republican vt also know tha B. H. one of the seven presidents of seventies of the Mormon a higher officer than advised the Mormons to vote the Democratic If the Mormon Church as a church had been dictating political Morris and Roberts would have worked The second proposition polygamy be Polygamy is There have not been any plural marriages sanctioned by the Mormon Church since and Reiser knows Third That the Mormon Church Why any or organization he prohibited from doing a legitimate commercial the cease to impoverish their people under false Who arc and what are false lias Reiser been impoverished the Mormon the church leaders keep the pledges they gave to the people of the United States upon which as a was Neither the Tribune can one-clause or one-promise in the enabling act that has been by the people of 1 Delete Is not the object of the Utah Independent to guard the or any other church from any overt acts may or may not have committed if in protecting Utah the attacks of A. The Salt Lake or the Ministerial we have to defend the Mormons who compose seventy of population we shall cheerfully undertake the against any and all slanderers of Utah and its r know that Reiser is a jeweler and keeps a jewelry Suppose we desired to injure we should simply use the same innuendoes that he uses to injure and cast reproach upon his should that Reiser retire from the jeweler's that oiling watches with tallow be that Reiser retire from the watchmakers that the jewelers cease to sell bogus that Reiser keep the promise he gave the United States that he would not import Swiss watches without paying the duty on All such stuff quite as fair to Reiser as his arguments are to his 1 is no excuse for the American party Kearns thought by its tion he or or Mormon Church into politics to support him the sec- oud term the Reads Like Reiser's paper is on same level in trying to blackmail the Federal is-an-other choice tid bit from the f it any wonder then that public rumor asserts that the as compensation from the whisky people to commit the crime of tampering with the power of the State of and prevent that so brazenly steal one swoop in small a trans- action as a. printing item is not above suspicion accepting a 1 paid bribe of for a greater And still numerous crimes and felonies constantly being committed by members of the Federal Bunch and their tools in the various public offices within the appear to emphasize the necessity of a citizens' league or committee for the enforcement of the laws against public officers in the State of abuses have gone on for but were never so flagrant as Reed Smoot's like the denizens of the appear to have lost all sense of and their brazen abuse of the people's rights is already beyond all Will Decent People Stand We can any self-respecting citizen of Utah sanction a paper that would publish to the world the above Is it true that Senator an apostle of the Mormon and that Senator Congressman Governor Spry and the other office were bribed by the whiskey ring for and that they in with the same money bribed the Utah State Legislature What an outrageous slander on the State of What a wholesale slander on the Mormon Church and people for having such apostles and How great an injury such statements will do to this when published broadcast and even in the columns of a common scandal monger What choice articles the Bulletin's diatribes will be for the Eastern papers to publish to the injury of Just such misleading and injurious articles were published by Pred T. Dubois and were widely republished by the Eastern We Ask for If Reiser has any kind of proof that Senator Smoot or any and all of the Federal bunch individually or are or have committed any or let us have it at and the Utah Independent will that they shall all be immediately arrested and brought to trial as soon as come under the jurisdiction of the Utah No self-respecting man o Utah can countenance such stuff as Reiser is Who would desire his children to see any paper that calls all of our public officials and What makes Reiser's paper more serious is that it tries to show by implication that it is the official organ of the Republicans who assembled in mass convention in the Salt Lake Theatre on February Reiser publishes the proceedings of that convention and his name as chairman of the following Reiser Stands Albert S. Salt Lake M. Piute Edward Kane County L. Hardy San Juan James Utah Wilford Iron James A. Morgan W. B. Sanpete Wilford Beaver A. W. Rich Thomas Garfield W. R. Millard G. M. Sevier County John V. Weber J. Cache J. W. Box Elder Summit Jesse M. Davis James C. Wasatch John Tooele Heber Emery N. L. Wayne R. S. Uintah The Editor of the Utah Independent is of the opinion that only one member of the above committee will sanction Reiser's brutal attack on the State of Utah and her If Reiser or anyone else does not like the Federal bunch or the they or if they are not doing their duty as public let him come out open and say K he prefers to fight them because they are and because they believe in a high pro or in or a large or the parcel or the Panama or the big he has a perfect to do But man has to injure a soverign tate m order to make himself noxious or to appease a personal or individual jealousy S. |