Show I 1 A NEW LINE lne OF P POLICY t THE blew us ew york world Is ia A journal 0 large largo circulation considerable ability and strong democratic proclivities it t isho is no admirer of the mitlon tra tion it tt is bitterly opposed to president grant and his cabinet and would resort to almost any means sto ito to bring the administration into disfavor with the Amerl ameri amerlean american cari eari people the dorid world for some time has his been pursuing a line lindof of policy to accomplish this that is somewhat unique A series serles of communications on the people of utah ostensibly written writ ten from this city citty has been appearing in its columns colum dolum ns it would be no easy matter to find a greater number of outrageous slanders compressed into the same space everything that can be tortured into the form of an accusation against the people of this territory nearly every calumny that has been beirn invented and published before is repeated and the vilest vilee t falsehoods given as facts make the gor dor correspondence in the world a mass of infamous mendacity such as can be found in other claiming to be respectable having very strong evide evidence nee hee for fathering these communications in the right quarter and satisfied that a paper as influential as the world would not endorse endor seby beby by publication such statements on any other subject coming from a source so utterly irresponsible irre the object to be accomplished is clearly revealed if the world by the means adopted aau ean influence the administration at Washing tomu torf to adopt measures against the inhabitants of utah such as are being urged in several quarters if it knows the odium which would inevitably follow would operate heavily against the party in power and would be b e a material point gained for the party of which it ia is an organ however much of a popular cry there may be made by unthinking and unreflecting people whose prejudices are roused by interested and cunning individuals against the latter day saints there is not a doubt that the dragooning dragoo ning driving and wholesale robbing of over a hundred and fifty thousand peaceful industrious moral and earnest people would bring down upon the heads of those guilty of it the condemnation and execration of the civilized civili zed sed world and ans this is evide evidently fitly what the world is trying to goad on the federal authorities to do to specify in a detail the broad glaring falsehoods which have lately appeared in it its pages would be a work of no little labor for the vilest allegations that have been made for the last twenty years and over are rehashed and pub lisheras dished lish edas as having come under the observation of the writer or as having been received on good authority charges that have been refuted and exploded again andi andl and gain again are resurrected with the air of having been given existence for the first time and so flagrant are they that their authors coald not for a moment have supposed they would mislead anybody but those who were utterly unacquainted with the people of utah and their history that a community should be as vile vilo as the elti biti citizens zeus zens of utah are represented to be and yet present BO so many evidences of honest industry peace morality alit ailt and good citizenship is past belief with any reflecting mind we are here our works here for nearly a quarter of a century are before the world and though no other evidence were produced to rebut the infamous accusations made madi against us the condition of our people and territory is 1 san an irrefragable one ono which can not be buried by any T W ii M r f 1 layr iker lT yr A T waw gaw r e character had they been the vile depraved licentious murderous cr crowd they have been represented by such calumniators as the world has ha given sp space aceto to the low and the vile can find fit associates in the purlieus purlie us of great cities but rarely anany in any num numbers bars in the rural districts nor are they given t to 0 honest industry any where they pre fer to live by violence by plunder and n riotousness had the authors of such falsehoods been engaged in n honest labor aa as the people of utah have been they would have had neither time nor inclination to gather such a amass mass of purulent verbiage almed aimed at the exi exl existence tence of a people hose whose greatest crime is that they are a thousand fold better purer and dud labh jabb nobler leithan than their thein defamers def amers but suppose the world horld should accomplish its object does it reflect on the consequences the blow that would strike down constitutional liberty w would scarcely be confined in its effects to the people of one territory and the alders and abettors abet abot tors in perpetrating the unholy act would have to bear their share of the consequences no rancor is so bitter as religious rancor it may seem beem an easy matter to rob a hundred and fifty thou thousand people of religious liberty strip them of the labors of a quarter of a century and drive them forth homeless wanderers on the earth for their weary pathway to be again marked by nameless graves and bensan guined footsteps foot steps but we can assure those who wish and work for such a consummation that there is a retributive justice and should such a finale be reached of which we have no dread the fierce struggle of conflicting rell religionists zionists ts for supremacy which would follow a successful onslaught on religious liberty a smuggle far more bitter desperate and deadly than a mere po lotical contest would work out a retribution more terrible than the evils which our enemies desire to bring upon po n U us |