Show AN OPEN LETTER in inan an open lettes letter addressed to the editor of the transcript the social fists of tooele thoele tries to muzzle a tree free press with great lamentations mud slinging and threatened spook hunting visitations the editor ol of thi this s paper received from two little girls last condayan Mon monday dayAn an open letter addressed to james dunn j which we suppose means ui the letter had neither address nor post marks and d when we ask the small tots who sent it they aid it was the socialists of tooele thoele and looking it over it was signed socialists of tooele thoele it was not exactly above a love letter but it was a hummer as it should be as it seemingly took all the socialists in tooele thoele to write it the letter began in this way in your last issue of the transcript you state that the chief of police of salt lake city proposes to stop certain street meetings you designate the meeting so attacked as anarchistic and defamatory allow us to tell you that you are misinformed those are not anarchistic meetings they we arc socialist meetings now in the name of the multitude of scribes that wrote this open letter they roust must have got confused cont used and tangled up on the subject for neither last week or any other week did the transcript say any thing whatever about any meeting that was then being held in salt lake city a fact of course we had bad a perfect right to state I 1 it such had been the case but the way the matter is mixed up proves again the old saying 4 that too many cooks are sure to spoil the broth p we will quote to you what we did say ay salt lake city proposes to stop POP CA mee t 1 toisy bif is in tiie the power of tia the city police to stop them they should be stopped in every city now you can see you yon have all been sipping out of the wrong dish for there is not cot a word wod wo d said about any meetings that was being then held there is not a word said about the socialists and it could not have meant them anyway for you assert in your open letter agas As for the defamatory part it is needless to say that there are no defamatory speeches made at socialist meetings now why all this mud slinging accusations cusat ions against james dunn for words he never wrote arld and for expressions he never uttered you better get together again and sew up all your men of buckram and straw you have so valiantly slain in your heroic wrath clean off your mud slings and call off your spooks shooks and attend to your business of reformation particularly barly in open letter writing find and you may get there after awhile to set your minds mi ads at ease I 1 will answer your question do you want to suppress us why goodness gracious no do what put that in your head we nver never thought of such a thing go ahead and prosper and some other time we may give you a little more free advertising the very thing you seem so much to desire JAMES |