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Show ATI-"M0K310X IXCOXSIVT-EXCV. IXCOXSIVT-EXCV. TliESpringfielil Uepublican goes along in the even tenor of Its contemptible con-temptible way. It does not appear as if its editor bad any use for fairness fair-ness or humanity when speaking of the "Mormon" people or their affairs. af-fairs. He elects to run In" the old beaten, senseless rut which has been so long trodden by religious fanatics, political demagogues and feeders of popular pnjudicc - The latest exhibition of aatl "Mormon" dbhonesty on tho part of the JlepuUican Is its pretense of having swallowed at one gulp the story palmed upon the publicity the San Francisco Otrotticte regarding extensive Investments of Church funds In California. We can hardly hard-ly believe that its gullibility is real, but merely pretended. Our belief on tills Int Is reasonable, because tlie article In question states a direct untruth in treating tlie subject, thus establishing the fact of Its hypocrisy. If hypocritical and false in one instance in-stance It Is liable to be In another. It states that "certain utterances of the Deseket Xevs arc confirmatory confirma-tory of the rim Francisco story." Xo representation could be further from the truth. All that this journal has said on the matter has been to the effect that the story was a fabrication, fabrica-tion, an assertion which we now repeat. re-peat. It is'a manufactured tale. Iu this matter the HtpublicnH lias even gone beyond the chief local anti-"Monnou" paper published in tliis city, whose chief aim is to antagonize, an-tagonize, in every possible shape, "Mormonism" and its adherents. Even that journal treated thcCftroa-iclc thcCftroa-iclc tale as a Muuchauscnism. It did so because it was aware that if it had taken any other position it would have been guilty of perpetrating perpe-trating a manifest obsurdity. Men and journals arc entitled to hold and, within tlie limits of decency aud truth, to express their views on ali subjects, "Moriujnism'and thc'Mor-mons" thc'Mor-mons" included, no matter whether the opinions be favurablo or ad verse; but when truth is ignored aud its opposite used, those who thus treat Iular themes arc only worthy of contempt. What can, however, be exjiected of an e-Jitor or journal who will defend de-fend thccouliscation of theproperty of tho ''Mormon" jwple, or that of any other community, aud its being applied to a purpose for which its real owners never intended it to educate the children of non-"Mor-mons"and thus mupcrizd the latter lat-ter at the expense of tutir self-respect self-respect and of tlie property of the Saiuts? What can bo expected of such a iajr as tho JiCpuHioan which will so antagonize the Constitution Con-stitution as to insist that it is proper to seize private property aud use it fur a public jirposc without compensation. Either sucli a fournal is Ignorant of the underlying principles of American government, or it wilfully seeks, so far as its -limited influence extend', to undermine tlie safeguards safe-guards of civil government Such has been the attitude of this Illinois jourualh tic advocate of public robbery rob-bery and unjustifiable persecution. Men whooonduct newspapers which apologize for and justify dishonesty and oppression are a di'raee to the profession. Tho position taken in tlie Springfield paper was evidently inspired in-spired by a desire to make the robbery rob-bery of an industricus, honorable and moral people more complete. Hence the expressed belief in the correctness of the ridiculous narrative narra-tive concocted by the San Francisco Chronicle. Tlie HcpubUcaH apcars to e afraid that a dollar belonging to the Saints shall escape thebarbar-ous thebarbar-ous process of confiscation, which Is legalized robbery. Why should the "Mormons" be compelled to jay for the education of the children of the Gentiles. Widely Wi-dely the Republican to answer llmt conundrum In line with its dishonest dishon-est course in connection with the seizu re of the properly of the I.atttr-day I.atttr-day Saints. |