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Show THE NEWS ON PROPHETS. Tho Deseret News is sore because The Tribune has been warning of dls-astere dls-astere to come, and It sneeringly Bays that this paper Is engaged In prophesying. prophesy-ing. Tho Tribune did offer, some time ago, to match predictions with the Dfsrr.-t News; but the News failed to accept the challenge Since that time The Tribune has not posed as a prophet. Seeing the discredit Into which the bus-lress bus-lress of prophet has fallen under the rule of the present church hierarchy, The Tribune has no desire to be called by any eueh name Tho News saj's that an assassin would prove to be a true prophet under un-der certain circumstances. Yes, and a rrophct would prove to be an assassin under certain circumstances an assassin assas-sin of Utah's dignity and possibly of her Statehood. The News says that The Tribune is Incessantly working to bring disaster upon Utah, The Tribune has been Incessantly working to prevent the hierarchy and the Deseret News from bringing disaster disas-ter upon Utah; and it has been warning warn-ing the peoplo flint such disaster would surely come unless these malignant forces were restrained. The article In the News, which sug-gestH sug-gestH the foregoing remarks, Insinuates that The Tribune Is responsible for the condition, of whose results Tho Tribune merely gives warning. That is like the const ienceless News. Year after year The Tribune hus urged the church leaders to adhere honorably and Orml lo the pledges of their Statehood That they refuse to heed this good advice is now known to nil the world, for they have testified to it. And this part of their testimony Is so brazen In it e i i -frontery and Is so well reinforced by public knowledge, as that unlike soni--other.s of their oaths it Is accepted as simple truth. The Tribune Is still beseeching them to PaUSS in their ruinous career. If they persist It Is probable that they will provoke a demand by the Government Govern-ment for the return of the formerly escheated church property which has been falsely used by the hierarchy: that they will provoke the repeal of that part of the Enabling Act which i iiiif makes land grant to the public schools; that thev will provoke an attempt to repeal Utoh'e Efriapllng Act, or an amendment to the Federal Constitution withdrawing Statehood from Utah, and that they will again Involve some of the strongest men of their community In a confli t ivlth the law which enn have but one ending submission after su fferum The inslnu? i Ions of tho Nswi that The Tribune Is responsible for the evils against Which The Tribune gives warh IPS rftn only come from a base in-gr&le in-gr&le The Tribune Is for the retention reten-tion of Statehood and Itn glorv, and It bsgS the people not to forfeit the gieat- st right which human beings can enjoy en-joy by committing or s.upnortlnsr such flagrant defiance of the sentiment of the United States as .MM bring down the heavy hand of vengeance upon this community. |