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Show II.t.t'NTKATED IN.ICRIKH. The resolution of Councilman Pembroke Pem-broke in tho city council last evening, touching upon tho falsehoods contained in a sensational publication called the Illustrated American, regarding an impending revolution In Utah, were pertinent and timely. As The Times pointed out yesterday with regard to the same matter, the most senseless fabrications and calumnies, emanating from the most irresponsible scoundrels, find ready credence when they concern con-cern this territory because by persistent persist-ent and systematic misrepresentations as to the true situation of affairs here, the people at large are misinformed and misled, and thus prepared for any lie which in any other case would bo spurned and ridiculed as such. The authors of the atrocious libel care nothing for the injury they do to the commercial interests of Utah. They have no interest at stake themselves, and whether they malign us from personal per-sonal motives or to subserve the interest inter-est of some rival territory, tho result is the same. We are heartily ashamed to own that the perpetual agitation of chronic blacklegs in our very midst gives color to these outrageous stories that have not a shadow of truth to rest upon. We Rre glad tho city council has taken cognizance of the report in the Illustrated Illus-trated American and repudiated it as it deserved to be without a dissenting vote. Now let the resolution adopted at the meeting yesterday bo printed and distributed throughout the land as a protest against the infamy perpetrated perpetrat-ed upon tho good nan?e of Utah. Let the people of the east learn from tho action of the liberal council of the chief city of tho territory that there is not one syllable of fact iu the statement that we are on the brink of a war and that those having their all at stake in case such an eventuality really faced us, brand it officially and unconditionally uncondition-ally as a falsehood. It is a criminal and brutal slander. i |