| Show WHO HAS misrepresented of 0 mormon persecutions in the southern states slates the news thinks the iho clerga men and newspapers 0 of ahli city who and have been eisent ng t the a saints are not nol if they have been misrepresenting the iho saints they certainly nrc are not nol blame legs leas for they are unlike the nans they do not lie by inspiration and there la Is nothing in their religion adle ion which ju lying even to banther the ilia cause of 0 the lord dut bul 1 tho the charge of the news nes that nas has been such misrepresentation does docs not carry conviction with it for tho the reputation ot of tho the news for veracity Is bad it if boys nrc are a 0 haystack it will N III not do for larni to say that the men N who he tried to P persuade them not to were the men who burned the stack the tribune it a year ago besought tile tho mormon church and people to call a halt upon certain ot of their chiefs who were precipitating tho the trouble here and pointed out that one of tho the results it if they persisted would bo be to renew tho the persecution ot of their missionaries in the southern states instead of helping us iti the news denied all wrongs charged vs us alth misstatements and persisted in its denials until its oun on people became disgusted with ith its shameless and persistent falsehoods now tho the eions havo have begun and true to its own on base nature it tries to fix at least a part of tho the blamo blame on tho the men and news newspaper paper hero here which warned it and tho the mormon people not to do what they were doing we said that tho the election of D B IT roberts roberta wound be a breaking ot of every comp compact tet mado mad by tho the people in order to obtain statehood the whole holo country now takes that thai view we said that tho the taking of oc more pluvial was waa a direct breach of falth it IS it not true we said that the continuance of active polygamy in utah was nas dishonoring every pledge that the president of tile the church and all the apostles made inalle in tho the most solemn form and produced the life proof to show what those pledges were la Is it not dot in bad taste then ihen for tho the news to como come forward and c claim im that the men and papers that told the mormon people what their then facts acts would ou id result in are responsible at least not blameless utah was pro greasing splendidly two years year apo ago the old prejudices were disappearing socially and in business saint and sinner were drawing nearer together it if it Is not so now why ilas has the news evs performed its duty ling has it warned the people of their promises and thundered to them that they roust must bo be kept or has it justified or denied every act of cussedness and by what nhat grace does it now turn mournful accuser for the crimes chic which it has been find and Is accessory to |
