Show dispossessed OR exterminated 11 the redskins ned Red skins continue on the rampage on the plains thene there Is little doubt that they receive encouragement and sup tup supplies plies piles from the mormons cormons Mor mons both will win have to be dloss dispossessed essed or exterminated before a great while 11 I 1 we clip the lilb above from the san francisco flag P a a specimen of the malignant nant manner in which journalists indulge in the most reckless and base assertions against the mormons cormons Mor mons I 1 11 without cause of any kind to call them forth looked at ina in lna a spirit of can candor dorthe the paragraph betrays the animus of oi the writer for the assertion bears on its face without argument the proof that it is utterly without foundation while the closing sentiment is so intensely wicked and fiendish that we would be astonished toni shed at any public man penning it did we not kno know w how very base and unscrupulous many of them can be there is little doubt that they receive encouragement and supplies from the mormons cormons Mor mons little doubt must approach almost to a certainty and that certainly should be based upon reliable information if the 11 mormons cormons Mor mons are so culpable a as they are here represented to be and the editor of the flag possesses besses inform information a tion op on the subject he is a traitor to his country and to the interests of humanity if he does not make that information known that the indian outrages on the plains may be dealt with I 1 understandingly and effectively I 1 jf he has not such information he is quilty guilty of a crime worse than that which he imputes bothe to tho the mormons cormons Mor mons for he maligas maligns a whole community with a view to have them dispossessed or exterminated there Is is nothing to reason against in such sueh juls it Is a malevolent assertion by argument unsupported by authority 7 a journalistic s I 1 but a bitter and savage one which would brand its writer with ept epithets we have no desire to place in our colbi columns s and then the dis possessing or exterminating mentioned on one e would almost think he had been here and alid had eyed covetously covet gusly busly as many have done our farms our gardens our orchards and the results of our thrift and industry spread around an and had concluded it would woula be a good thing to drive the mormons cormons Mor mons again and take possession hos bos session of their pio plo property perty foiw borwhat hat should webe dispossessed and exterminated for forthe the idea is not a new one with certain public writers who claim to influence popular opinion Is it jor for our having entered an indian country poo poor and armb almost s t de fenceless and aud op opened e hied fied up thas great gleat and rapidly rising west to the nation is it for having made roads across the plains then as now how infested by savages bridged the av rivers ers made the canons passable and showed that the terrors of this almost foza feza incognita were not so great but people with perseverance endurance and industry could pass through them or settle among them and live Is it because we showed by example how to travel those plains and through U gh ahti kli il iw ni i these mountains with comparative safety reprobating the actions of la lawless whites who have provoked the hia fia natural ferocity of the savages by which the innocent are re made madd to summer suffer together with the guilty tand and ever seeking by our industry and energy to make the public domain valuable or is it be 1 cause without following in the track of our neighbors around us we have haye made ourselves homes in this so 0 recently fo forbidding wilderness and gathered together the elements of wealth continued I 1 prosperity and greatness that we are to be dispossessed ll 11 that those who envy us may enjoy the fruits of our labors we would not like to be the one who could pen such a sentiment under such circumstances did the mormons cormons Mor mons not open up the road through the indian country from the missouri to the pacific did they not commence mail service and the transit of passengers a have they not been the succor and support of the line of communication between the east and the west and were they dispossessed or exterminated to today oay day would not the progress of civilization in and the continued opening up of this vast western region be thrown back half balf a century do not flatter yourselves ye who talk so easily of our being dispossessed dispossess edi thinking of the productiveness of our soil thatis slanders and malignant assertions sert ions such as these were to have the effect desired and we were to be agai again n driven forth from our homes that you would enjoy the paradise here which you YOUA imagine magine we know 70 from hard experience peri perie enee ence rlee ilce that the amount of labor absolutely necessary in these valleys to wrest a subsistence from the earth I 1 would not suit the easy habits of those who look upon our possessions with envious and covetous eyes the mall mail malignant giant glant allegation contained in the paragraph quoted can not be for a moment credited by any person of intelligence telli gence who understands the subject but there are many thousands throughout the nation who have little knowledge of the vast extent of country over which the present indian difficulties extend and such people are liable to be misled by statements of this kind as false impressions and wrong ideas have been so widely entertained concerning us in consequence of the many false and malicious assertions that have been sown broadcast by our enemies we have noshad now had indian troubles of our own to contend with for three seasons we have viewed deep interest the growing difficulties on the road between this territory and ud the east for we understand sufficiently well the value valtie of unobstructed commerce and safety of travel to desire their benefits and if the writer in tb the e flag with others of the same spirit had bad as much intelligence as they manifest malignancy they would not expose themselves so paip palpably a to the contempt oi of well weli informed ming mino minds |