Show ONinVJLOCCTTlTATED rUE ART The Tribune of Saturday morning contains an account an interview in JFittsburg Pa between the Eev P A H Franklin of Salt Lake City and one o the many reporters of that bare From that interview it would appeariat Parson Franklin is not at all satwSed < with the progress being madeogcinst the cith of the Mormons and cries aloud for more legislation We could forgive him for ill that if it were not lor his inexcusable downright down-right lyine that isof course assuming that the eatleman has been correctly reported As an examgle of his felsity take thefollowing b au initmceof Mormon injustice I refit re-fit to our Irsning Xbc farms are teetered ty a system of artificial irrigation The rtream arc controlled by Mormons raid those fasners who ae members of the Mormon Church get ac water or if any Mormon farmer abandons the church hit water upply is interfered with The retail cf this is that enterprising men will no Omc on to our land This same spirit of tyrannical discrimination pervades the en tre Territory We are therefore a stand Ftill community although ice posse the jnot prolific soil i in the weft For straightcat lying we think this parson should be awarded live cake In the first place our irrigation arrangements arrange-ments arc under the control of the cit zens of the Territory who have been or may beorganisedinto irrigation companies com-panies or districts by the county courts of the respective counties elect their officers who are placed under bonds to faithfully discharge tieir duty Jiad who may sue or be sued so that if the rights of artf individual be he Mormon or 3entile infringed upon in this znat er of irrigation the courts are before ulrn and he may obtain redress for whatever damage he may have sue Ained The law provided that av > erson taming the water or any part hereof from any public canal irrigat ng ditch or reservoir except when thee the-e of the water has been aIloted to jch person is guilty of a mis emeanor And therefore may be finished by imprisonment in the aunty jail for six months or fined in uy sum less than 300 or may e both fined and Imprisoned r irrigation system is under the con o of the laws of the Territory and the ghts of every citizen irrespective of 1 js being a Gentile Jew or Mormon ate ired by those laws And when Para Par-a franklin or anybody else save that ose farmers who are not members of ie Mormon Church get no water or a I hat thoie farmers who abandon Mo oniim have their water supply interred inter-red with he lies S 8 The parson having started to bear I I i e witness against his neighbor keeps if n this rain I Tie pIiH Lade himself will every t liar A yotm maL ctun t c tx 2 0 and a u S MMn vf tlmat the pr cet knowg to It II nor en i Mormon ell nwheel I U jrow iUioutpicsUT interference Comment isjunnecessary It will be remembered that one of the speakers during the week when the GAR GA-R meetings were held in the Skating Rink of this city said that lying had b n reduced to one of the fine arts III tJtKii and after the exhibition of skill 11 that art by Parson Franklin it is plain to MO that he is an expert in it |