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Show from the daily Lannan and reiterate its statements; what then" The least thing that might be expected ex-pected of a home paper is loyalty to home interests. The daily Lannan wallows in riot. It would rather proclaim pro-claim to the world that the Union Pa-cifio Pa-cifio headquarters nro to be removed from Salt Luke City, though there be not a shadow of truth in it, than to give support to the governor'. oflicial report that life and property are perfectly safe in L'tah. When you condemn, fellow citizens, begin nearer home. NKAKEli HOMK. It is all very well for us to resent with indignation Die falsehoods uttered about Utah in the east; it is all very well to protest against the malicious libel that the mormons are preparing for a war of extermination at an early-day; early-day; it is all very well to pass resolutions resolu-tions in the city council and chamber of commerce for the purpose of reassuring reas-suring the people in the east that we are not hell-bent on rebellion and treason as tho Illustrated American asserts. as-serts. But why should we visit our wrath upon a sensational paper several thousand miles distant when right at home we have a iournal that is never ko happy as when it can stir up the embers em-bers of strife and fan the fires of hatred in our midst. What the Illustrated American avers in a spasm of inoi bidity that does the daily Lannan maintain in its normal condition; and what the former for-mer is supposed to retail at second hand, that the latter is believed to draw fresii from the fountain head. If the brutal attack in the Illustrated American, calculated to destroy our credit abroad, was fiot indited in the daily Lannan ollice, it was certainly inspired there, and promptly after it had appeared in the pictorial, the daily Lannan quoted from it all it dared with spontaneous approval. j And yet we try to harpoon the minnow min-now and let the whale glide on. We chastise the gamin and tolerate the tramp. Suppose the Illustrated American should, instead of retracting thi' lies it published, fortify itsell with quotations |
