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Show 1IA(K IS UTAU. Considering the Intense craving for sensational news and the morbid appetite appe-tite for excitement obtaining in thii country, it Is no wonder that an enterprising enter-prising scribbler in the east should seize upou tho "mormon question" to toll tho tocsin's loud alarm and prepare the nation for another w a r. What of it, if we in Utah, where the conflict is to be met, don't know anything about it; what if we pursue our peaceful everyday vocation voca-tion r hi i v it) ns of the danger that hangs over us. Illustrated America says there is e,ing t" he war in l'tah. and we might as well know it. According to that authority au-thority President WoodrulT says "the doctrine of polygamy is still their (the! mormon i cardinal doctrine, and they are ready to light for it." The war correspondent of TllK Tiwk, i notwithstanding a must diligent search, failed tn discover the munitions of war and the material of carnage heaped up j in any place, and yet it must be con-j con-j caaled somewhere, for says not Illustrated America in deadly brevier bre-vier that the tone of President Harrison is pacific, the mormons warlike: "lb: proposes to legislate; they want, to light." 'Tho prospect is awful. Listen, yo doubting ones. "To uphold up-hold that principle these simple farmers farm-ers are prepared to butcher women and children, and as for facing fac-ing troops, they are taught every Sunday iu their meeting houses that a collision Is inevitable, and they hae j long been prepared for it." The Illustrated American receives its information at firsthand, for hearken further. It says: "Observers in l'tah say that the collision raniit be delayed. de-layed. The hope that polygamy would die a natual death has proved to be vain. The ulcer must be cut out with the sword." So tho doom, as will beacon, is decreed and there is no escape es-cape from it. Just the same thorn will lie no exodus from l'tah. Tho people already here will look after their mines and farms and factories, and stores, and families, anil will be happy. Everything iu this territory, from the o.ouu of the mountains to the returns of the Salt-Lake Salt-Lake clearing house is calculated to make them happy. Tho atrocious lies of an irresponsible scribbler evoke nothing but ridicule or indignation here. Indeed his falsehoods are so brazen bra-zen aud bold and so wanting even in pretenso and decency that The Times hesitated long before it decided to notice, not to say refute them. Hut capital is timid ami the experience of this territory is that owing ow-ing to the systematic misrepresentation of blacklegs and moral assassins, auy libel however hellish and monstrous is liable to tind credence with some people. peo-ple. And capital is proverbially timid. Hence The Times, Liberal in politics and gentilo iu belief as it is, protests against the vile aud wicketl calumnies cal-umnies published about the mormons of Utah. There is no nnre peaceful region in the union; none more remote from rebellion or war. There is no see- tion in which life and property is safer. President Harrison is surely better informed than the sorry scribbler who writes for a fee to injure our interests, on the conditions of this territory. The fool or knave. |