Show ED EDITORIAL I 1 TO RIALS S WIDE of THE MARK AMONG the many untruths un truths advanced by the new york berald herald in its acost almost dally daily as assault dit uit 0 on n mons j and sapa of which ara are too absurd to deserve reply or attention we notice that the early settlers of utah are charged with horde fierce opposition to railroads calire ads the merald herald he rala of the ansti says 6 to both mines and railroads the mormon A I 1 lor mon priests were opposed and well they might be for the success of either was the tho death knell kuell of meir weir debasing imposition this Is as near the facts in the case vase as the great sensational journal of america generally arrives in its crusade crusade on the mormons Mor mons but history la is more potent than press denunciations and the herald only exposes its own ignorance in making such assertions amert ions fons aa as the above when the pioneers of the people who had been driven from the state 0 of Illin illinois dia dla by the weapons of religious bigotry made their weary inn ina march rah across the plains and mountains to io find for the saints an asylum in the west they marked out a path for the great highway which luo we spirit of inspiration that prompted their leaders manifested would be cast up in the wilderness hoon boon after their here and their organization of bf a temporary government they applied for admission into the U union ciori and also memorialized congress to build a railroad across a the plains selling 9 forth its advantages to commerce add and to the nation at large this taisa is a fact in our history of which the new york berald herald can become perfectly satisfied matis catis fied by taking a tithe of the trouble at washington to find out the truth thad that it has taken in ill utah jawork up plausible error when the union fae fie actu ally aily approached utah from the east and mu thu central pacific drew near from the west it was mormon Alor nion labor aud and mormon Mor energy which bu hurried r up its completion and anti joined the roads roada together with a speed and completeness unparalleled unparallel ea in the history of railroad building cl mormon priests pr iesta as the herald berald calls them hae have worked with their czi hands bands as well altheir as their heads a kind of labor in which the priests endorsed by that pai pal er are never guilty gu efty of engaging to construed nud aud equip a number of railroads buth both of broad brond and narrow gu dungs bs which are now in running and acting as feeders to titi the great continental highway how iii lii much i uch ucb does this look like opposition og to andaca to the mines minTs the leaders of the peoria people here with wilh a da sa garity for all sensible people in the world give them credit baw SAW tile the folly of A policy which would develop the minlu inter tast before there was any agricultural basis basia and manufacturing 9 support bup port they ther therefore eforo wisely ad the people who flocked here bl re from the industrial centres bentres and rural districts of the old world and tiie the now new to till tili the tho soji soil convert the des deserts era ena into neida and ardans sj conduct the mountain str sti earna eatna upon and thirsty soil beautify the earth raise cattle and herbes berbes und and sheep manufacture wool into luto cloth produce cotton build comfortable homes god iu in the valleys he fie had blessed with fertility under their labors and leave the gold and silver in the mountains until in his providence the proper time should come for their development the history of utah when con with the experience of surrounding territories in which this thin plan has been reversed shows the wisdom of this advice ad vice and the benefits which have followed from acting upon it and time has bas shown what will be more abundantly demonstrated as it advances that latter day saints are not asa as a community in adapted for mineral pur pue they will achieve greater success as a pastoral agricultural and aud manufacturing people thau aa as miners let those who will spend time and money in hunting precious pre pru cloua ores the saints ean can du do better belter betterin in every sense of the werd word by following those pursuits pur which nature their religion and counsel point out to them but they do not oppose by any mean they thoy have never dever bimi nimi hindered ered tred thue who hu wip wit hed hid to adio dij hills irom irm mung a many holts hoies iu in th the e grou ground blud tied as t hey they ii they recognize the hand 0 of f provi dence in the 0 opening ening of the in min no e ral wealth to duman tuman human gaie gaze and in iii austry but think thin they can bo be far happier and arid more prosperous b by laboring in those channels in n wh which 1 they have hitherto hl been peen so successful and in which they can enjoy y the benefits of home family isso associations citations ciati clat ions lons ons and the and refinements of religion than by working amid the tha dangers and anti hardships and rude that are general features of a mining camp facts in the dase case and the new york merald herald hsi ier as in mot most of fes ILS adorf efforts to touch uil upon u the 4 mormon question Is again i very wide of the mark luark A CAPITAL CRIME AND A PETTY punishment tiie tile case ease of itea dixon illinois accused of poisoning ning his wife has been de decided elded he was found guilty and seli seii sentenced by the jury fury to fourteen u years imprison i J s 1 nia ment this is a peculiar verd verdict iet let if mcghee was guilty of an anything it was deliberate cold blooded murder the penalty is entirely ent frely inadequate to the crime he should have been either acquitted or executed or if an 1111 illi IlJin nole noie oie jury is too tender to take the life lire of a murd murderer er imprisonment for ilfe life would be the nearest approach to justl justi justice c e in in such a case as mcg heeb hees it appears that parson mcghee I 1 I 1 a dapper little smooth tongued methodist preacher who was much admired by the females of his adock flock akl fell in love with us ris mla Loril lu paddock raddock one of the members of the church in which be officiated to open the way to woo and win her lie he administered arpenic arsenic to his bis all ing wife tuis this i treatment faili faill failing ilg through anex an excessive dose dobe he next tried tiled strychnine with fatal effle effect ct but a post mortem exi exl examination disclosed the polson poison and tion proved his hia purchase of the deadly ingredient he prot protester estea against the accusation and loudly proclaimed his jn innocence inno no po cence but hut in vain the jury believed him guilty and sald said so feo this was in with the evidence and to so far they merw were right lit but nut bl ow they could affix sueh such an insignificant i for so to terrible and inexcusable a crime ia Is aue of the many deciNi decisions uns ung professional SUICIDE 1 T was waa our intention to drop the N I 1 4 herald 0 ren fen atlon tiou bizzle out of charity to the d fi tied victim of mania a atut maude mahde iao belr beir din diu win inflicted ve k koupa wound jig JIZ but bul iba ibn t till unwise wire in hi hlin heit belt lous ious public attention ta to bis his b arid at the same time indulge in such wilful perversions lona iona of the truth that we are in induced refer to him again under date late of the he senus senua I 1 to the herald kerald u ot fictions for the evident purpose of f drawing a yeii voil over the full fuli acco ont out of the investigation lut iut bli hii bi fulir verian story aitor ht ho tates lales that the was waa made male by b a pher who it ij i j m youl your digs iks uan private bec 1 lunt a stipulation was made that the report ruport should bt eady within a week that three applications had hail beun been made tor fur it wi that the priesthood hood had decided to sup pey pe puy y it kemt a couitt ous mea meat eu en ger gel hadba bad had bt been pen een en teut t benl henl eul to the I 1 mayor for the ieppert who was ID clial tile the been completed and was lying in the mayors desk for tor days daa das pas past that the testimony te stimon y of witnesses was to be manipulated z as Brigha mYoung and his coull coun desired de sired alred that old residents believe th mayor mayer and hid bim his p blicq force wele accessory eccesso ry to the assaults 22 of evident denire demire to i ush up thes hy affair abid and ahie ld hieu htoo nevial as ul I 1 alt i vv e rew rea tb the jo n toi IMI lii the bove buve deep pity itai li levident evident that thae the unfortunate writer is really i in mental disorder his habits associates and I 1 i powerfully hits intellect and otly oily p V ui luceil thai moral mb y which jemai leatia thu the VIVO victim m lu to rev txie exie facts arbini b L I 1 I 1 blinas him to 0 o th the defects delec ts to ordinary ob observers of lila own a attenuated fabrications every mie one of ills hia statements is untrue the stenographer who as he be says in another place vas was thie the only ohly drie drle oue ono in the city disengaged lf Is not hot and never dever was youngs secretary tary tl tho 1 reporter did not tbt thau thai hia traul traum L should hould be ruady ready in lu a be bin nin thought that it height tl igat be prepared by leat tuat that k time rhe the gift d did nut aut decide to TA suppress it for ic it had been published and tue the tuo priesthood liau no whatever to do with it neither a as leiter letter nor a courteous messenger r was sent to the mayor and that officer culler did nou nut any anybody boily although iris insulted alced py a supercilious us ind and alro airo arrogant demand tor for iho the ducu docu document ment meni the transcript did not nut lie in thu the may ors desk at all no was manipulated except that thai of the correspondent who maul maui puiai ed ld it himself him belr belf before befort according acco iding to disown his own and anu seeing that the mayor hns has nut up the ann aff aguir nir air but given it all the prominence tb that a t apy any one could ask or expect the ridiculous tion tiou that lit he be was iciest ory to the pretended assaults falls to 10 t ahe be with wet rea of uhe the cutlet gratuitous falsehoods it is apparent to every candid person j this investigation wae wao w acted conducted the utu ont oot falt fait nebs nees nd ind that thui fb the e delay in its pta publication was only caused by y a desire on the presen present la a report to which no pd valid objection could be uil Vil ered the stenographer transcribed hl iia hia notes aokes with aa as much al uly uis adl as his abUl tiem tiey aud and attendance other dutie duies ermit ted each testimony was wat to the kitners lor for tn t n dor bement or revision the cor cot respondents ts evi evl denem wms waa giten ta to him in proof and fand he be made just mab as suited him lud and kud tv rt modeled it no so that the etyle my ie would appear in u prink print suitable to a poison ot of literary pursuits the possible care carp wa staken to have the whole report entirely accurate ami ht hence ence nce a delay delty which no duppre jui dictz persan will deem unreason able the following certificate appended to the published report we iv rw produce ja proof that there is no excuse for the intimation that any ady part pan of the testimony was subjected to lin improper proper manipulation ciuta of I 1 county bi bot salt lake J 11 chas chaa WS ft a notary not ary rry puhl a in lri abd for silt lake county territory of utah da do hereby certify gat wat the after haying bern befu d froin the tise notes wag was wah duty duy duly read lu tv th actie pa artle the ame lauie and aud wab waa by them thern laterally bete leTe rally raily li it my lay pre ence yence that of daniel davidt ou big signature nature I 1 could hot ob talu taiti a as bf be was clui of the city I 1 IQ in n wilne itne a ahert whereof of I anve lave hereunto e et my band aud and mynot mynol arial feal teal this thim day of J une aie uie ule A ab I 1 at my in salt iiii citi V T chaa 7 stay aTAY NEB eeb dutary I 1 sait salt biliti co U T for the credit of tio the it cou con scout of an ve regret tto ito to seo beo see ste tuch tuch i rom rum firmi ros huntr truths truthe buths pien pie H to thu the public he 11 IK tot ay rueni ruining b hla hia is ciara clara ctr foi fol veracity 11 winch be one ol 01 the chief ree rec of special correi ll the readi reads ers era of the N Y herald will natu rai rally raily ay re regard g rd all frim ai i p pen en wherever his nis duties may way fali fall il 1 turn dri ori as latady unworthy y vf v confidence and bis hia tile attempt to misrepresent ul tan of tula this territory his hia mun enish unish L borit forles s ot of impossible out outraged his senile fabrication of f violence LO 10 his person his ills vain attempt to a the character of tae the mayor and others connected wilh with the investigation aud the general tamp of fiction and exah idt aeration ge ration with W ith which all hie olt lake are branded are muff leie lele ul to to fo t f o damage his lep as to so exclude him from the staff of any paper claiming or aiming ing at a leading position in the Q nield field of journalism he is committing professional fel felo de se ee the omaha republican can says the st paul press bays that kero hero eue ene belter eue euf and lie arb art cheaper and wid beeter better tee ter than loal coal tar taras as u I 1 lle lie jle la is death deith on bopp hopp vrn there ought not to tea lea live hopper hoppen with wilh limits of nebraska Neb 1 with the buzzing of the mendacious omaha insect 1 HIS STORY OF THOSE ALLEGED ASSAULTS AND F THAT 7 investigation THE new york herald telegraphed to its special commissioner for a 4 detailed statement of the two alleged attempts to assassinate him in this city matters which have he become come stale flat and unprofitable hereabout and mostly ou on account of the very fis nis fishy diahy fia hy nature of the allegations and the utter lack of cordob testimony in answer the special commiss commissioner funer 90 over his owa own signature Og nature for walda waida by telegraph his hia own peculiar story tf A thu the alleged outrages and also his own peculiar story of the informal investigation of the same pam e at the walker houle hotle hoth e at which his hia honori honors I 1 mayor little prend presided td these stories are published in the hebald of june 18 the latter story in particular may b be 0 a signed assigned a place hmong among the of Illera literature iture because becam 8 of ehe the straining 7 to misrepresent which it betrays throughout for it loes lues how show an effort ti ij meanly depreciate the may maj or and others who are hupp oid old to be 6 bind kind to krau grau dilo e I 1 ly exial and exann the and the jen deu jeu lilea ulles who W ho were present and who took part in the investigation the object of 01 the iho investigation is purposely and the imputation tion ot of unworthy motives to the in regard to the tho llon lion is nut only inconsistent with the c char chai character acter of a gentleman but wit entirely gratuitous as the especial special well knows knowe thu the was in tie to satisfy lne the general demand of all sorts ot of to aub to ibe elit individuals individual who made 1110 alleged aanas attempts tane thlu no otle wile lu 10 the alleged guilty guilly pai pas bailies ties lies not a jut jul joiet of active what taver u ver tha iwo iwu gentile wilB esea esma emma who baid saiu they thought they knew il antor autor assailants asta amba ambo lants lauts refusing lu to burth ef leaving tho the company and the ihu public to conclude uhl ihl no hueh buch assault had bad be been attempted and that uhe itie whole was wad a poor pour intrigue too flimsy for further beri heri fc erious outi qu lly ily unbecoming poor flimsy al and aud gratuitous ia is tue of thu the ape |