Show I I The Dtfserct News is progressing backward very fast Not long ago It denied the authority of Presidents Woodruff and Snow to state under oath the true position of the Mormon people with regard to discontinuing I their illegal polygamous relations 1 more recently It very pointedly suggested I sug-gested the propriety of lynching a man who had in tho Third District I court been acquitted of murder In I January and last It claimed for Its editor other elders the power to cure I smallpox in Us various forms by the laying on of hands and when forced to face tho lying l humbug denied that I it had said s although Its exact I words were quoted In full so far as that point was concerned and now It howls that the Supreme court Judges must be punished and others put in I their place because they cannot sec the law the same way that this malevolent and medieval editorial writer of the church organ does It is f a rheumy record I 0 especially for a short one but take it In Its fullness I and tho Ignorant bigot stands un cqualcd for mendacity stupidity and I reckless partisan malignity In all the I records of the time |