Show PRESIDENT CANNONS it was abo about ut two years years ago that tha t president geo Q cannon wrote brot 1 as follows in the juvenile Ja venile inspru instructor ato r thomas jefferson Jel Terson is 19 paid to have declared that lie would rather have newspapers without a government than a government without napoleon said he be feared three nc newspapers mote moie than rn nil army of a hun dittl thousand men A more recent celebrity holds that the newspaper is the pour mi mans its li biary constituting his hia stock of history bio biography raphy and lite lature and the best authorities of every land and beope recognize in the fearless earless well conduct conducted eil newspaper the ablest champion of the pe peo pea I 1 the stoutest foe of byj ants the above shows that president cannon admires a i fearless well vell conducted paper one which makes make it unpopular to do wrong which makes the wicked trel tremble lible and the men of impure morals seek ecel the shady side of politics president gazzar annon inon has no desire whatever to the pross press he delights in the exposure of fraud in the newspaper viar war upon corruption and the denunciation nuncia tion of lecherous politicians like bre kibridge kin ridge and others B but u t for those newspapers which assail the spotless character of men inen wh who 0 have bare always lived in an upright virtuous manner he lias has nothing but condemnation lait laa lai t sunday in the great tabernacle 1 at salt lake city pre gave vent to his feelings upon this matter in ill the lie following words the political newspapers are filled aith fale falsehoods boods I 1 do not lead them I 1 bill not liend i ad them I 1 ill not allow my t th hildren ildren to read them for I 1 do not want their minds to be contaminated with the untruths un truths N which the contain I 1 will not allow low them thell to coin e into my lious house for they are filled with file e hoods atiat is n ot of god it is of t lie d devil e D A matters have readied reached a 11 point w V liere here een ei en men of ta the e purest lives are attacked attack td and villi fied if ever there was it a case in in point it is that of lion iron joseph L rowlins whose life lias has ever been of tile the purest kind as till nil republicans who know him bear wIt witness bitnes nes yet the tribune lias has maliciously and persistently attacked him even 11 him ini 13 s personification of perfidy and dishonor dai honor on the morning that president cannon spoke upon the we are glad to tn fcc M 0 O president cannon take tile stand lie doe should tile policy of the tribune prevail evail it would set ket a on dishonor and a dumper damper upon virtue it would te teach ach ille young youn ja me aaen 11 or of our land that bothin s could lip ile rained fo for r them hy by lhing i lives live of cha lity and solnie sol mety tv it il would give the boys of this oautry to 0 o tI lIder land thit that in the in innocent must r with willi the guilty and that leading men and ali will defend their reputations liow flow ever eier bad or assoil their ch characters hol however sever good they may imay he be we think president Cati cannons remarks tini timela elv |