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Show K ; The way3 of the antl-"Mormon" B are elcvioiui and disreputable. From 1 the rise of tue 'Mormon" Church B I i(j'iivAeuliateil and maligned H r i astSTU doctrines, ordinances and B f almsIiavcbecnlntectlonallyaiUrcp- f J reected. Prea"licr, lecturers atrJ 1 editors ha vo combined la this evil M I work, and thusupnjadUtrS have H J been created and loitered that mate M I nearly alj.iliev'orld Utter and ex- 1 clteJ azalni tho very name of H fornjon."i-fc ' M But amco; all the I-00I.3 and B pttnp!ilet?aad press articles tiiat BB f have been wr'lleu, and the tenuous. BB I and lectures that have been de- m I livened, with the intentof deceiving !the public 1 -en the "Mormon" question, jvre doubt whether any- m thin?iulte a; mean in this hue BB lias been attempted, as an article 1 t'laiuic-irsjlus veek in an lllue- B 4 Sed ea'ienTpaper untitled, "Will M tho Mormons Figlit?"ivith editorial BBS comment. BKV " 2"ot U13t.lt contains anything new BKV by wayof allseed facts or actual BKV arguments. It Is merely a rehash BBV ' of old Salt Ijike TrAune Ta&e, BKB tlrejej up to suit the times, lint it 1 i purports to be wr.ttcn by ' the oldest M J Mormon fu the Uoci Mountain!." H I This lie ttuU to give interest and BKI I an air of reliability to the Mllainous H . statements ani intimations it con- BMV tains. BV -Toe articlo was not only not writ- BKa ten by "the olde: Mormon in the BMf Jtccy MoGDtaica,"tiu twos not wnt- BMl I ten by a 'Mornion'at all. We could BE glveiJeeryeloeeeaeisattLeautbor'a BV I czhi;. It. was repared In 1)113 city. BHv It is full of errors, even where the B 'design is to present historical facts, H , so woven into the intended fiction I H as to inaho both npjar vqual- BH y true. And some of these errors M ate such that no"Mjrmon,"partlcu- H M larly an experienced "Mormon," H tfj W - could hae fallen into them. H "m 'The purpose in concocting this BBI Hi collection of historical occurrences. BH BKV nevrj-japtr comments, Imaginary H AVl Incident sud wilful pervtisl3ni,and H .B touching them up with lurid lints. H VMB is of the vilot and rantt CDCr.rJl HBB character. Itist nnij itappt-ir BHBKV that the infamous assertions and ix- BBAVMS plauations of allege.! doctrine are BHBMBJ t opn cdmi-ions by one whe is in TK Ui?liro and has been familiar with H ' the faith of the people intmded to H a be'tunjd'efamed. The" hand tiiat 1 ' edited this mt-ss of miuled trut and falsehood, tliat culled from j JViiuncartitljs, from CoL Ksne'n j Isnui lecture, and from other pub- I Hshed works little s latches of good H ' writing, vorrect ntrrations, erron- BH to J 3 items purs fiction an J uil'taken H ) opinions aul thtu hid be- H y bind, the He lhat he is H a 'Mormon," has capped bis BH . 1 infamous edorU and contemptible H ouree with --uch a paltry and con- H j j temptiblo cronn of illainy as to H J 4 stamp him a craven as well as a H A ' jierjiirer. B Whether the paper that has ac- B V ce'ixl"his tfliirt understands the M I t deception practiced on the public, H 1 wo"').no.v not. If It does, it Is H i J etjiilly despicable with the author. U I i Inither event it will not gain H I in faor wjth the American public M by lendjn ittlf to this low and H j ini'efecible scheme. B j The article is deslcueil to be one iJ v ofateriei. The object is defined in K I ihea editorial coaimenU. It is to HHjf liringauoutacslli-ion between the H Govirnmcnt and tho "Mormons" K resulting in the "extermination" of H the Saints. The editor is cvldeutly H "' Jgcorant of the situation or ho is HBHHi destitute of common 'cute. "The B 'v ?t1S lower" of the "Mormons," m vBJ Ubeiraff"degance" and tiirowlng H w fdown of the ''auntlet," their being B M "driven into the Held in dereneof !HB kl ISlySpy-" and other non-ense 1M wlln Hhlcli. tte editorial abound-, I j Jsaall purely Imaginary, and in 'fl P vievi of the actual iUte of afTalrs B I herelsutt riy absard and ludicrous. M 1 flf aluti- IJjbt shed upon ll.e edi- hb j Jor'rnind and the jKiblishen-' B respocslbililydoesnotbrin;abouta m H change in. the intent of the illus- B ) M , jfralal japcr, in our opinion legal B M stepsehaulJ betaken uhich may be H jB "a'little'more effectual. P " We have not mentioned the name H 9 cf the paper, because we do not wih H I rii give it adtlltiouil publicity, and H M fleiloijot take tip the article in dc- J jj "tail, because its falsehoods an too old H m fcluj haadlo it this date and have H fi ' beu loo often exploded to need H ( nlaMio 1. We mutly wish to ex- I ' I "ipreas-our views a to the cowardly H J j authoranJ the decenedof deceiv- H 1 'S pu'jlr5hcr, aud to expose the H I K-fitatemeattnata ".Mormon"' penned ' BeQZ literary hodge-podge which H J forms'an excuso for the illustrations I I tthataccompinyit.ItisaJcontempti- H ! ,-'e" 'lis'-uood as ever emanated IJ. from the iufemal regions o: 2eu from Jho Salt Ike Tribune. |