Show At the present moment we the slanders set afloat concerning Utah as of vital importance to the progress of this State and to the welfare and happiness of all its For many the editor has investigated and followed up libel after published for the sake of the immediate injury of the large majority of the people of libels that cannot fail to result in the ul- injury of all the people As fast as each each miserable and grotesque bas turned out to be baseless and too often even if it has been denounced as such by fair-minded men among the authors of these statements have invented others and- scattered them abroad without retracting or apologizing for the previous And people of this State do not even know what being said nor who is saying The arts of i tion and slander are plied are that lift voice or pen in A Commercial club fails to speak a Manufacturers' and Merchants' association says noth- j a busy daily press wholly i ignores or at most re- ports a few shreds of the libel-pus and injurious and so Utah has no exponent or defender outside of the class that is chiefly traduced willing to take the trouble and id incur the odium that would attach to any independent movement that might endeavor to check by exposure the current of To this phase of local since they strongly affect good citizenship we feel esT called upon to addess ourselves as occasion may for we know the facts as perhaps few others Coming still nearer home we shall de- fend the sacredness of the vidual in all affairs or and shall urge rial choice in preference to party are for men and not for party names and In city affairs we shall be alert in the public that are necessary to the progress of the cities of We shall regard municipal affairs as the whole people's and shall make as far as we are able to do whatever concerns public public and good We therefore ask the support and invite the co-operation of those who believe in the policy we have herein set and we issuer our paper in confident of a favorable response the people a |