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Show PERENNIAL MENDACITY. The annual niemlacity and abuse by the Utah ring and its organs are now having full Bwlng. The foulness which a hotly contested election campaign cam-paign brim: to tho surface at long intervals, in different parts of the country, is here a perennial gush of filth from the creatures of tho ring, and commands the usual applause from their clacuicrs, whose olfactories are so accustomed to the stench that 1 they are unable to discover its fetid character. And thin winter, as is usually the ease, new instruments having been secured to do most of the unclean work, the oldest and stalest of falsehoods, that have been refuted until refutation becomes wearisome by its constant iteration, arc reproduced repro-duced with all the bravado that ignorance ignor-ance of the facts or unprincipled disregard o' them can inspire. The pulpit, the press and the telegraph tele-graph wires are used as instruments to crush a religious system, and, sad to say, all are made mediums for circulating cir-culating falsehoods that honest men would shrink from repeating under any circumstances; while the two last are fertile in inventions that have not i even the semblance of imitating dc- ! cent truth. The Press Agent here is not only irresponsible, but appears to be sold, body and soul if he possess the latter article to a clique of a party without honor, honesty or principle. prin-ciple. Everything that occurs here that can be tortured to make a point 1 against tho Mormons is, by an inge- 1 nuity that evinces a low cunning and some Inventive powers, twisted, perverted and given to the world so altered in material meaning that it reaches the great public through the pretfc of tho country to all intent and purposes a lie! The present organ of the ring is so utterly unprincipled, that even when charged with repeating repeat-ing a direct falsehood, which had been unqualifiedly denounced as Bitch, it unblushingly declared that it wasn't under oath, leaving the plain inference infer-ence fiat when not magisterially sworn it could lie to any extent it pleased, and would do so as long as it was not liable for indictment for pcr-jurj. pcr-jurj. And it continues to repeat the falsehood, with all the others that it can invent or with which it can be furnished. Provo, too, supplies another an-other exemplary individual in the person of a Methodist preacher, who humbly aims at imitating the Congregational Con-gregational ist parson who woa once known in this region iw'Triar Tuck;" but the Prcvo man has neither the , ability nor vigor of the other, and presents pre-sents only a poor imitation of his rhetorical abuse and mendacity. Yet these thrco instruments com-; hined a desecrated pulpit, an abused telegraph, and a paper capable of ; publishing anything, "ho matter how, foul or unclean serve the ring with a 1 zeal. that would command respect were the object in view anything to which human nature and manhood could give a scintilla of respect. But that object is plunder, the plunder.of iniio-ccnt iniio-ccnt victims, and these miserable tools hope to reap a share in time. Year after year has brought disappointment; disap-pointment; still they cling to iiope, and arge Congress, to pass first one unconstitutional measure, and then another; believing, and sayiay, that, before the Supreme Court of the Uii- have accomplished their purpose. We beg to assure them that they will find themselves again mistaken and defeated, even should Congress 1 pass cither of the bills now before it; for while they arc using every mea.xs to stir up bigotry, fanaticism and venality ven-ality to aid .them in their crusade, honest-thinking men and women throughout the country have fathomed their designs, estimate their venom and abuse at its true value, and will not permit a prosucrous commonwealth common-wealth to be shackled, plundered and murdered by a band of reckless adventurers ad-venturers who seek wealth by theft and notoriety by the vilest means. |