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Show An Inconsistent Journal. Salt Lake City, November 12, 1S7S Editors Herald: 'lis said that even the devil will sometimes preach morality. This often finds striking exemplification, and one ol the best illustrations ever presented will be found in the Tribune of Tuesday moruiug. Some scribbler under the heading of "A Malicious Lie," takes exceptions tj a equib published pub-lished in the AVics of the previous evening, which sets forth that among the signers ol the "anti-polygamy petition," were several' foiled doves," etc After exhausting himself with a windy aud furiouB lirade, in which be : ' demands taat the Aetna gives the 1 names ol the 'several' ftgaiust whom its malicious slander is uttered," the wuuid-tjtt-YirtULius ends wmi, "We publicly Hud without rutnul reservalioo, pronounce the thing that penned the Blander, a malicious liar, who bhould be horse-woipped m ;be streets by t tie hudbandrj and bru'.her of the uiitra whom he has tosuaoju-les?ly tosuaoju-les?ly aUi.tUrod." Wbelber the charge made by the Kewa can be substantiated 1 am not prepared to say, but if ever the height ot impudence was reached it was when a newspaper whose columns teem with slaoderd agiinst innocent men and women, and whose pages are so profusely pro-fusely smeared with obscene and profane pro-fane language, that uvm ItlOsO WHO coincide Willi it politically, will not permit it to eutar tbi ir family circles, takes up thn cause of "the wires and daughters ot our very best citizens" against what is termed a "sbarnelese slander, and "demand that the one who penned it apologize or "bo horsewhipped horse-whipped ia the streets." I nm not on the side of slander, from whatever source it may come, and if what the News asserted can be proven false, the one who wrote it Bhould in jutice make suitable explanation; but I am for consistency every time, and must say it is, indeed, a jewel conspicuous by its absence when the Salt Late Tribune attempts to preach morality. 'If the Gentile ladies of Utah would reflect, they would see the weabneii and absurdity of their position in having, hav-ing, as champions ol their cause, a corps of vulgar scribblers who assume to teach decency and morality, which they daily shock and abuse (one of whom a well-known courtezan ot this town came near cowbiding, some time since, for publishing an indecent article concerning her), and who, if tho horsewhip they invoke for the punishment of slauderers were applied ap-plied where it belongs, would ere this be literally flayed alive. Iacjo. |