Show S THE POOR DEVIL One V. V S. S Poet has h his s. s name at the masthead of ofa a shady sheet called Tho The Utah Independent Hohas Ho He Hohas has been struggling for fora 3 a good while for the reputation reputation tion which a 3 kick from T THE TE TELEGRAM would give him Maybe rabe a 3 few lines devoted to him would not be he out of place He is a scurvy wretch We doubt ex exceedingly whether he knows who ho his own father was Two or three years ears ago he started put out as ns the champion of the Mormon rolmon chiefs and with a n. proposition to pay lY a large SU sum to nn any who should prove that a n polygamous marriage had been solemnized in II Utah since the manifesto He did it knowing that I plenty of such marriages had been solemnized hero here lero or just over the line l. l knowing that even the News had admitted it that even the tho chiefs of the tho church had admitted it did it to w advertise himself as willing willingto to prove anything that those chiefs wanted d proved Now he assails tho the editor of this paper because ho he opposes the tho proposition to kill kin Salt Lake b by bogus prohibition an and concludes that the opposition is a device de' to cc sell sell out and does not seem to know mow that in that he ho g gives cs away the only motive that has actuated actu himself for years Our belief is that it includes a notice too that he himself is astonished that al all his covert offers to go down into the mire and to indorse indorse in in- dorse anything the church chiefs want and to back backan an anything thing desired with the full measure of his lila mendacity men men- which makes Ananias look like a n. radiant angel angel an an- gel by y comparison has comparison has not yet brought him the reward reward re re- re ward which he thinks is due his strenuous efforts The disturbed condition of Utah cannot be shown more clearly than by the statement that a n pervert I like this can live here for if the soul of him as asit asit asit it is was once revealed to human e eyes res the deformity would paralyze every spectator and make men recoil recoil re re- re coil before it in horror |