Show UNCALLED FOR the rapidity with which mormon baters haters gnip at a straw when anny thing presents itself indicating to them to injure alic mormon wonderful ettlie blindness of their zeal they seem not to realize the very efforts they put forth aid what they contemplate checking cReck ing in growth I 1 the present effort to bring odium upon abo mormon people the result will eventually be wide of alio llio mark intended how in reason or fact placing a flag at half mast on the fourth of july could bo construed as au act of treason or as insulting the flag or nation is to understand cus lorn teaches that a hag at jials masl indicates sorrow four years ago president was nt alio point of death the nations flags were everywhere placed at half mast on independence day feelings of sadness were thus indicated why did not some wiseacre then say that the hag for which soldiers had fought and bled was insulted in these mountains arc a people who arc proscribed iii their liberties and have been for years but today to day the situation is such as to call out the sympathetic feelings of the heart in idaho utah and arizona are confined men who nrc suffering the penalty of an unjust law thus liberty to them has a thing of the past their friends have a right to express sorrow cither in words or by using the flag in n position by precedent as alic one expressive of sorrow As we linvs previously stated no insult the flag is offered in 0 o doing the fact it that it is honored because the mourning IS done under its folds these ideas arc called forth now because of the ridiculous proceeding transpiring in different portions of the country in speeches arc being made resolutions passed etc condemning the action of flag at half mast in salt lake city on n par newspaper articles concerning alic cormons mormons Mor mons the resolutions are licary illogical unreasonable bigoted and groundless only lucli as could be made by inconsistent ignorant enemies of a cause after the excitement has subsided an investigation will lie in order alio mormon people have no objection to a fair and honest investigation of their belief and of their present situation in such an investigation will come to the front and the contemptible temp tible nonsense circulated by ani will ind its true place |