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Show ITS FAIiSE, BASE POSITION. Tho church organ denies that the Mormon loadors demand special consideration con-sideration for the pioneers of Utah as prophets, seers, and revclalors. And right upon the heels of this it puts forth the claim that thoy wero prophets, seers, and revelators, and as such far above ordiunry men. It denies that special consideration for them is demanded de-manded of others on religious grounds, and immediately assorts that they are "special instruments of Providence" It demands "that the great pioneers and empire bnildors be honored as such; that they bo treated with the same consideration as the first builders of other States, and of this Republic;" but ignores the fact that no claim of ro-ligion, ro-ligion, divino authority, or special instruments in-struments of Providence is pleaded in behalf of the pioneers of other Stales. Tho organ thus rofutcs itself and confounds con-founds its own position. And everybody every-body who knows anything about tho case knows that it docs this in a futile and impossible attempt to douy the truth. Tho Mormon leaders have never been content to rest tho claims of tho Utah pioneers on the same basis as the claims of tho pioneors of other States, but havo alwaj-s and imperatively insisted in-sisted that Mormonism must; bo honored hon-ored in thoir persons whenever any honor to them is in view. Tho organ finally shifts to tho question ques-tion of tho stockade, in tho same arti-clo arti-clo that it deals with the pioneers; but what relation tho two subjects have is hardly clear to any one, unless tho writer in tho church organ desires to refer back to tho old saying of an offspring of Brighnm Young, that all this city then needed was a roof to bo complete in that line. As to the stockade, tho church Republican offfi-cials offfi-cials took it in hand, razed it to the ground, and proudly declared that it should never more exist in Salt Lake. So far as we know, thoy have kept their word. If they have not, they must .mawi'i 10 1110 punpio ior uieir failure to carry out their pledges and to maintain the standard of morality which they set up and acted on for a time. If the writer of church organ editorials edi-torials knows of any violations of tho law in setting up a stockade, or of immoralities im-moralities therein, it is his duty as a good citizen to make the propor legal complaint, to the end that the evil bo rooted out lie has no doubt at his disposal dis-posal the testimony of various bishops and elders who testified so freely hitherto hith-erto of their oft frequenting of the tenderloin and their familiarity with what goes on in the dens of sexual vice. And whilo it is so busy with the femalo prostitutes, we trust that it irill not fail to bring into deserved public opprobrium op-probrium tho niale prostitutes, whose sehsunl adulteries of polygamy and un lawful cohabitation are equally under the ban of tho law as the kindred vices of the femalo prostitutes. Let each sinner answer to the offended law, ro-gardless ro-gardless of sex, and perhaps the public, pub-lic, comprising in it the Mormon people as well as tho non-Mormons, will have a clearer view of the lnwful and proper relation of conditions as they exist. The organ of the church adjudges that The Tribune "has. absolutely no concern for morality," no doubt for the reason that wo refuse to condone tho sexual vices and adultcrios of the malo prostitutes. But The Tribune stands for cleanliness for both sexes; for tho duo and right enforcement of the law, and all ,the law. upon every offender nlike, without regard to alleged standing, stand-ing, special privilege or plea, or claimed exemptions from any cause. All aliko should answer to the laws which they offend. Tills is and always has been our position. To say that in this we have no regard for morality is only tho base judgment of tho organ of the male prostitutes, who ai tempt to set themselves above tho law and to hold that vice is not vice whon indulged in by them. |