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Show ITS. PERVERSITY IN LYING. Under the caption, "As to Loyalty," the Deseret News, on the last daj of Februar3', priutcd a deceptive editorial article. It. pretended lo make reply to The Tribune's several references to the treason of the hierarchs. As usual, the Deseret News, official organ of tho offonding ecclesiasts, draggod the body of tho Latter-day Saints into tho con-trovers3 con-trovers3 as a defenso behind which to hide tho chief priests of disloyalty. Through all tho windings, twistings, and evasions of the church organ we fail to porccive any approach lo answer an-swer lo the charges that the hierarchical hierarchi-cal twcnt'-six arc banded together for treasonable purposes; that thci' have incited tho Mormon people to hatred of tho Nation; that they administer to their followers an oath of vengeance against the people of the United States; that ihe3' do all in their power to set their people apart as a body distinct from the romainder of the citizens of this countrv. I During the course of its article the Deseret News look occasion to quote from the utterances of a late respected leader in the church, whose declaration of loyalty it pretends is expressive of its own position. Tho News therein spitefully insulted n revered memory, for the reason that it js scurvily un- worthy to adopt tho attitude of the 1 lato Hon. Gcorgo Q. Cannon as its own. ' Mr. Cannou was for abiding faith to pledge; the News is for repudiation. Mr. Cannon was for obedience to law; the News is for defiance of law. Mr. Cannon was for peace to Mormons and Gentiles; tho News is for strife between be-tween them. Had tho rospected leader lived until today thero would have been no hierarchical defiance of law, and no protection of deliberate criminals; the manifesto would have been enforced in j lctrer and authoritative interpretation. Tho Deseret News has no right to set up George Q. Cannon as tho champ'ion of its own cause, distorted to meet the j commands of its unworthy master. The church organ has no more right to do 1 this than wo would havo to print in ( tho same article tho name of George j Q. Cannon in connection with that of ' the present traitorous Mormon leader, 1 whose despicable acts have brought him to bo looked upon as the most perfidious per-fidious fraud upon earth and the biggest big-gest knave that evor called himself Latter-day Saint. And now let us see what it is that tho Deseret News has to say, of its owu motion, upon this matter of loy-alty. loy-alty. Tho Tribune, however, insists that wherein tho Nows uses tiie word "saints," the word leaders should be substituted; because our accusations havo been mado as against, the loaders and such of the membership of the church as enter into law breaking in imitation of these leaders. We protest agaiust the attempt of the church organ or-gan to drag tho mass between the. class and the charges made. Hero is what tho News sa3's: t The Latter-day Saints. a.; we have said, were thoroughly convinced that the retreat re-treat demanded by the hypocritical leaders lead-ers of tho anti-Mormon crusade would not have helped the aitnutlon in the least. They were convinced that the legislation leg-islation enacted wan unconstitutional. But not withstanding these facts, tlicv gradu-ally gradu-ally yielded to the verdicts of the courts. From the time of the passage of the Edmunds Ed-munds law of 18S2, tho numbers of plural marriages decreased In Utah, and bv 1800 tho general sentiment had undergone such a marked change that the manifesto Issued that year was unanimously accepted ac-cepted by the church. The very fact that public sentiment underwent such a radical radi-cal change in the course of a few vpars Is an Indusputablo proof of the loywUv i of the saints to the Government. If the'v had looked upon the Government aa a godless institution to bo resisted, tho result re-sult would havo been very different. Understanding the significance of every ev-ery utterance that tho Deseret News can put forth, The Tribuno recognizes in the foregoing a potpourri of falsehood; false-hood; tricki' evasiou; intimated notice of the revival of pobgami' for rea sons; rebellion agaiust the Nation; and veiled threat of what would happen to the Government if the saints were uot lo3'al. The truth is that tho leaders resisted, stop by step,, every effort to bring the church within tho law; the people wero impoverished for ycara in tho endeavor to "cram polygamy down tho throats of the people of the United Stales;" recession came only under superior force; it was not the result of original and voluntas sentiment senti-ment (as the News confesses), 3113-moro 3113-moro than is submission to penalty by tho criminal after he hns resisted the law to the last ditch in order to escape it. But it is plain to bo seen that the News regrets tho recession of the church from its evil practices, and that it now gloats over the secret revival of these treasons. |