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Show YES, LET US GIVE THANKS. When everybody else wauled to be- a little bit pleacant about election matters, after the intense strain was over, the Deseret News mourned as one who refused re-fused to be comforted, and roared as one whose wrath could not be appeased. It talked about wounds which were so deep that they would remain after the scars were effaced, or scars that vero so deep that they would remain after wounds were healed. It pretended to think that the campaign waged by the American party had been so cruel In its character as that the self righteousness of the News and Its proprietors had been stabbed In several vital places. To be sure, there was nothing In the American Ameri-can party campaign which should have wounded any decent man's sensibility. This paper has repeatedly demanded that the time arid place bo mentioned when the American party indulged in ony vituperation or abuse of anybody or any other party; and the News has been so unable to Identify and prove as that It has replied solely by piling more and more nasty adjectives with each reiteration of Its falsehood. But now when we are entering upon another controversy and one to which the contest at the polls on the 8th day of November last was but a prelude namely, the trial of tho church leaders' at the bar of American justice, the Deseret Des-eret News with Its usual facility to be servile where It no longer dares to blus ter, begins to talk a tot oi namoy-pamby namoy-pamby stuff about why should nol all who live in Utah unite In making the State one of the most blessod in the Union, Indicating an expectation that Thanksgiving day Is to be a time of mutual mu-tual falling upon necks and weeping floods of tears of loving regard between Charles Mostyn Owen and Jooaph F. Smith or other similarly antagonistic spirits. And in order to have some maudlin influence upon the American party the News proclaims under Its heading of "Let us Give Thanks" that neither Joseph F. Smith nor Reed Smoot nor any one connected with the church "entertains the least feeling of bitterness bitter-ness or hostility lo any of their fellow-men." fellow-men." There are certain words in the English language which arc the exact description descrip-tion of that kind of talk in the News; but they aranot words which should be used in good society. Iet the public content itself by hearing that the News willfully and flagrantly falelfles. It is not many weeks since Joseph F. Smith over his own signature gave out to the world through the Associated Press a statement in which reference was made to his "enemies." He did not use the word In any other than Its real sense. The controversy was concerning some other word. And he deliberately declared de-clared that he used that 'word and meant "enemies." v The Deseret News and its proprietors will strive in vain to arouse favorable sentimentalities In the Jury of American Ameri-can people before whom their postponed case is to be brought to trial. If they give lhanks It is that they have been able to deceive their intending Judges or jury of peers and that they have been successful in their effort to dupe the victims vic-tims of their selfish methods and their rageful purposes. And while they are thus giving thanks and making hypocritical pretension that they feel well toward all mankind, the American people of Utah, who do not feel well toward the Deseret News and its proprietors, will give thanks from grateful hearts that the day of genuine and perpetual freedom has begun be-gun to dawn in Utah. The American people are aroused and the wrong Is to be made right, and that Is the best Thanksgiving the people of this State have known since 1896. |