Show I 1 it li is astonishing with what facility the 10 lo modern editor keeps pace pitco with the growing appetite for utah son sat bation ion our local controversy may boast loaft of 0 bringing to light more lead pencil acrobats of 0 the genuine col biver Hoop town Ht fa abber quality than uny any question of nl the same mag batada that las arisen arisen in ID modern times here is is a brainy bit from a san francisco romancer who fro regales his readers on his hia valuable vala able opinions of what should be dono dome tor for us out bore in m tire the way of class legislation it will bo ba observed that the editor has on hie hia mind loigi the recent arrest ot of 13 11 II roberts of salt bait lake city cily the salt lake herald a mormon organ has haa usually been moderate modera to an cal d respectful in in its tone its editor has in in too the meantime time been practicing polygamy oly gamy nevertheless and annu las has fal fen jen into the lands hands of the law this thin makes three of the leading lights of that have within a year undergone gentile persecution president Preside debt ht taylor george Q cannon and B D IL II roberts these men are nil all defiant now against bainet the acts of congress but the time may corneanu Lomo corne and that soon when thoy will be less so now the editor of tho the stilt salt lake berald has not nit been practicing polygamy and has not fallen into the hands of tho the law in fact he is is not if lna lis reputation reports him correctly a member of the mormon church president taylor has not within a year or at any time in in the history of utah undergone und argona contilo perso cution 11 of the sort evidently referred to in in tho the above editorial george Q cannon would probably hare bare under gone that persecution it if le he had bad not forfeited his bonds bond B D 11 II is ia not what would be ba cons consistently intently termed a 0 leading light lof jot mormon dom ho he was waa assisting in the herald office when ho he was waa arrested arroa ted for un lawful cohabitation not for polygamy and this is ia in all probability the foundation of the fiction above quoted wo we hove have ones before given the tha editor odit orol of the call a gentle remind er s r that he knows very little about the real issue in utah and we ere are now under the painful necessity of again calling his bis attention to that fact |