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Show PLAIN TALK TO SELF-ST YLLD ( ' LIBERALS." ' M.-.-.-U-Ul', lc!lJlT3 (-1 -.-II it'.iVU "lilwra! party," a tow wui.U witli yrni. The 1'ourih ul'July. tlu; Aimivcr-ary ; of our iVitional 1 ini.-jn'inii-n- ft lias iasu.l : l't in rtj.cat plainly. U is the j rijlii, th.- j.rcr.aliv.; ol' uiium;iial mli.)nued-c!e.:i''.l ly ilio peuple : umywlu'rr in t he l:iiii'.'l Suuh to 1 luaLo arraim'cuieiiH li r tiiiinly cole-' bralinn live Natimiul llnliJuy. Vour, "lifrcral" jlati;jrui ilenie tliii riht to tlm f!ftile lbroui;h tlicir ro(jer!y and i lt)ally oon.it it uted repivscruitiivtH, and j ttrrntfuttH it to a minority of ivuiark-j alily attenuated proponinn-'. l-r tliis' you use every exertion, and ven your fauatiu tool.H ain.ip tu lit: (rosiest falsehood, tu 'liar I tic proper oclobra- i lion of tin: day. Tin- "illiberal": municipality illiberal b.-oau.-e you don't manipulate the fund.; chouo a i-oraniilteo part Mormon, part not Mormon; but every gentleman on it well known to and respected by the community. Vour "liberal" committee com-mittee included no .Mormon, nr was any respectable Mormon a--ked to servu. The "illiberal" municipal uommittto invited all t n-lebratc; offered a platlbrm on which American uitueiM con Id meet without a.Hkiny each ! oilier at what shrine they bowed, or whether they indulged in genuflections before any thrine. Vour "liberal" platform was so oxcciively liberal that it could not a fiord room for a Mormon Mor-mon even though he had been shot through and through in the service of liirt country we have some of that kind. The merchants' committee of the "illiberal" municipal celebration, extended ex-tended a polite invitation to all tho merchants of Halt LaLo to join their procession. Did your " liberal " committee com-mittee invite one Mormon merchant to unite with them? Tho merchants' vans of the "illiberal" municipal procession pro-cession bore the name of every import-' ing lirm in the city, irrespective of party, creed, polities or opinions. Yours did not bear the name ol ono Mormon lirm, but did display inscriptions inscrip-tions that were an despicable by insinuation insinu-ation iu the. illiberality which prompted them was narrow-minded and contemptible. i Vour speeches, with the exception of General Maxwell's oration, wcro not patriotic, nor sven political; they were ' imply anti-Mormon denunciations and quasi religious fulminatiotis. Vour "liberalism," is a hham, a fraud, a hypocrauy, a cheat. You aimed at making a political demonstration de-monstration and failed. To honest Moriuona it was contemptible; contempt-ible; to respectable Gentiles it waa despicable. des-picable. You denounce "one man power," yet your " Church of Zion" excommunicated excommu-nicated the first man that ventured an opinion in opposition to the small braina that controlled it. You denounce priest houd. while your leading lights arc on record as Presidents, Apostles, and general high dignitaries of an assumed priesthood . You proclaim yourselves (ho enemies ene-mies oi'polygamists, yet accept as leaden lead-en polygamists, who may expree themselves willing to cry quits with tho polygamous order of marriage since satiety has been reached. Wo have given you rea-oiis why your affected "liberalism" is rejected; there are more to come, more unpalatable unpalat-able truths to be told. |