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Show j A BEAUTIFUL HEWSPAPE2. 1 The scalawag Tribune now admits . that President Vouug did not mention ? the Mountain Meadows massacre in I h sermfju lout Hunday. Yet in its i-iu(iOf Tuertday It this miserable '. sheet said editorially: Ho (Brigham Young) justiG.-d the Mountain AJuadows nuiciucre befjre Jiia pcopls, on the ground that the Gentiles bad persecuted tho sainU, driven tham out of Al iisouri, Ohio and Illinois and murdered thoir prophoU and elders. This outrageous lie was telegraphed by some of the Tribune people to the San Francisco Chronicle, and published pub-lished in that paper, with editorial remarks abusive of tho Mormons, which tho Tribune copied; and it is still copying similar articles from its exchanges based on its original orig-inal invention, which it now admits to havo boeu without aay, foundation whatever. Yet this lying j journal claims to be tho organ and representative of deconcy and decent people in this community. If those individuals do not desire to be guagod by the atsndard set up by this disreputable disrep-utable Bheet, they should disavow all sympathy with it and cease patroniz-iug patroniz-iug it altogether. To its auusatioual falsehoods the community is largely indebted for the depressed state of business and tho timidity of capitalists capital-ists in making investments in the unrivalled mines of Utah. Tho Tri- koepiug up an unhealthy excitement, pandoring" lo depraved Instee, lying and bamboozling a class of people into a belief that it is necessary for the maintenance of thoir personal security here. Thore is not ao vile a periodical in tho whole land as tho diilt Lake Tribune, and the soonor tho men who owu and support it conclude to kick tho border ruffians who control it into the street the better for themselves and all concerned. con-cerned. The day will come when they will have to take this step for their own peace and comfort and for decency's anke. |