Show COWARDLY SLANDER The Salt Lake Tribune Republican and Liberal says of tho people of Utah and especially of the Moraion people that Here Is a people that has been born in or brought under another form of government from that of our republic and held ho firmly in hand that they are tho great mass of themas I ignorant as so many South American monkeys I of American institutions and the principles of the government of the United States I We reproduce this vile slander merely in order to call attention t it We suggest to the young men who have been brought up in Utah that they cut it out and paste it in their hats for an enduring reminder of how the chief Republican paper in Utah loves them Tho cure for this imaginary ignorance of the people here suggested by this Republican Republi-can paper is that these people be disfranchised disfran-chised denied the right to acquire or own land in this country deprived of jury trial and brought to final bankruptcy This will teach them it thinks to love their country and study its institutions As a matter of fact the masses of tho Mormon people are as well informed in regard re-gard to civil government and American institutions in-stitutions a the masses of the people anywhere any-where in this country We have before stated and do so again that there is not a county in this territory in which there cannot be found Mormons who aro able to meet in debate and defeat tho Liberal blackguard who calls them South American Amer-ican monkeys on the very subject ho names He is afraid to meet them and longs t keep up tho old prejudice against the Mormons that being the only ground upon which ho dares to fight For years this clayfisted coward has boasted that the Mormons dare not take issuo on the ground of national politics Now that they are doing so the Republican Repub-lican editor dare not stand his ground |