| Show 1101 inn inna n 1 I 1 11 M rr i r J it f S EIO elo fla LIBEL MAKERS X riker si kid iid and AUD THEIR SUPPO supporters ATERS il T line linn itte verdict in the case of the theeda edl edi reer acer of anner afner VI ner nef T wil wll 14 la ally aily ampro vedy y i h he e public if tho the press lias has no righetto right to express opinions con contrary to the private interests of companies pigs ples or other otmer corporations ons however wealthy or influential fluent ial lal they may be or expect to bew ithie freedom of ibe speech speece edh h and of th tha press for which this country famed is the ahe world will be nothing hut but a q mockery allf if thid thib minner minnet diters lind had wilfully misrepresented the mining property about which they wrote or had bad slA bla slandered dide fide ita its owners or managers the oase case would have leeni ver very yd ferent fe i renu renn burthey But they expressed pressed eix their views on general al principles principle in regard to lothe tha formation and xi position floii grittie Gr ittig property stog D arty 14 question vestion by th the e sah bak 0 ov w which ieli I 1 certain ralo raio individuals expected to 16 make biske a abig bir big raise and were disappointed in their thele butil anticipations cipa elpa 1 it is s possible that the statements and arguments of the miner hads g to do with their fall fali urd we I 1 cnare nare not able to say whether this thia was waa the case or nc nur but mut if it BO so we do not toot see wherein the iri fri writers friters irl were liable an action for dat daf damages nages a as they merely published their opinions with what theydon they considered good dodd and sufficient reasons as a basis of a very different class arel are those scurrilous allous personalities in in which certain scavengers of the press take so much delight action for libel against the cowardly ardly rascals rasmis who lampoon 11 the theall living oot coT r V ing and defame the dead dea would successfully lie in ina lna any part poli of f the civilized world where the courts could be relied upon tor fair ruling rulings sT and just decisions and we consider that i a civil suit does not meet the demands of outraged reputation no nd matter what damages might be assessed in most cases there Is little hope that any would be recovered for tho the blackguards binck black guards are usually as bank rupt bupt ru t in property as in honor and i billic public respect but eri bri criminal minai minal pr prosecution ose i added to td the theuil suit sult at law with full penalties on conviction would come a littfe little nearer to the mark thins possible under ibula thela ahe laws of this territory which provide for either of or both p proceedings roce edings in cases of libel As to the probabilities of t the aal all 0 outcome we haye have nothing at to bay say but the practice of a few journals in the country of raking up all the slander blander and gossip that is uttered by the vile and peurl prurient ien len t which is often en entirely false and usually colored aind and twisted out of any genuine resemblance to the truth and publishing those foul ef fusions with the names odthe real or supposed actors in the scenes depicted ii ahe that should abt of only receive the con condemnation dem nation odthe of the decent docent people in any commil anity but should be stamped out by the firm foot of the law grand juries neglect their dufy when they thes fall fail to take cognizance of such flagrant violations violation 4 of law and decency as occur daily in some localities and fall to het bet act ket in ju the spirit of their oath of office by letting slip these public nul nui nuisances gances and destroyers af morality while tiley they asif assiduously hunt up things with which they have ao no real official business ethe ghe ahe continued existence of papers of the kind to which we have alluded is notto not to thie the credit of the communities muni ties where they are permitted to carry on their nefarious business A proper condition of the public mind would not furnish them the necessary support and the fact that they thes live shows that there are a sufficient number of individuals in their neighborhood who feed on onit it arary carrion and revel in abuse to pro provide dge the motive power for the running of these daily dally scandal mills newspaper proprietors like theatrical mhd mid managers agers as us a general rule provide such pabulum or amusement me nt as Is in public demand true they aid ald aida in forming and feeding the public u alic appetite but if the populace eyd ead had no relish for such papers and performances as are a reproach to the civil civilization of the nineteenth century those who cater to this craving would soon find that their occupation was gone the of the dirty drama and the purchasers of the dirty paper are parties to the crime of their exhibition and publication the authors and their supporters should be put into the same uck ock WATER weter I 1 F J 1 4 1 I 1 t ALTHOUGH daid dho aho prolonged fast of pr not prove of any very err erv g reat t value to science it t is the athe hour and adli is attracting murp public attention tharland than Lany any other ton topic inthe of the times the newspapers are publishing accounts of who have considers con considerably sidera sidena idi idy distanced ed tan tanner tannen ner in his feat of abati but inmost in most cases the fasting reported was the result of disease while whit liis lils has been attempted voluntarily and ana in a I 1 support of theories I 1 which he lloldi i in n mentioning his case h a few days ago we referred to the great change in bwl tan brys erys condition when be he abandoned his determination to tok abstain bastal from drink as well as food and a commenced n the internal use of water he nob not only gained hi ja weight but be jost lost his fever and land moroseness moro became cheerful audO ando and gorgus vigorous and ex hibit vital and mental energy in in great conti contrast asb ast to his condition when he abstained from froni drinking drink ng T this his wd we ren fared demonstrated the fact that water contains nutritive qualities inh inu in la large degree and that it has evidently kept tanner from fading dut bill of this world NV ve are informed that some would be remarkable critic has pronounced this manifestly y absurd because bemuse the composition of water is well known knon and 10 it simply makes fluid 11 and Is only nee gec necessary essary b to D the body as dand not hot as nutriment etc the amount o of t dogmatism which a smut smattering ering of knowledge creates M hi 1 a small mind Is wonderful that oxygen and und hydrogen in given proportions enter into the composition of the fluid called water almost every schoolboy has learned from teach teacher er or text book but that the properties artle artie s of those so called elements have all been discovered and explained is ls a statement a little too I 1 any aby really thoughtful min mind to ma make ke and since when had it been proven that there is no nutriment in oxygen or hydrogen or both combined this brings up U P rth ith the e question estion what is ren ten nutriment afi I 1 en T the I 1 he word thin thing that will nourish thab that evl which growth repairs the naturals natu natural ralp waste of animal or vegetable ll life ilfe feor or as webster says bays that hleb aich lh promotes enlargement or improvement pro with this luis definition can cain it be truthfully asserted that water fir fit w not innutritious nutritious does it not a aid ald id in lit nourishing supporting and improving the body imy and in arres anres arresting t or r repairing epalt i m i g the waste of tissue makes fluid really and is a nutriment confined to solids Is no fluid nutritious when the fluids of the body bodi dp decrease creaso by natural v waste aste i ia s not a new supply of heedful dmd fluid nutrition and is it riot manifestly absurd to place the fluid and nutriment in absolu absolute to contrast the exper expedience experience 1 lence lenco of jr dr tanner has shown 4 i tat that i a man pian can jive longer ian lan an a sni simple simpie pie water diet than was generally supposed possible this is admitted by many physicians who have watched his case with interest Is it I 1 inconsistent econs then to state th that thai a t water contains nutritive qualities in in a ay wery ery cry large degree 11 we think noe not and aid ald jid since writing on this subject we wp have noticed some remarks of the hew kew york relation to it which nit fit hi in hero her q very nicely that paper c closes loses a long editorial on the good effects on ta tannen tanner of drinking water as follows the italics are ours had hebben he been cut oft off from the use of water in any form from the first baynot a man of those who have been beed most close in their attendance upon whim nhim hini hint believes that he would bowd have beem beba alive or sane at ht the end of 12 days that he could have gone 0 0 days using water externally and only very veny small smail quantities internally as i considered improbable by many and those thoe whose opinions are most ennit entitled to weight but with freely drinking all the water he feels inclined to he may perhaps complete nis ils lis self imposed task he will in hat that event have demonstrated that there til ere is jm a greal great wd and hitherto unknown 4 degree cf nutriment w ta mafer wafer but wt not that life can ban bd bo sustained sustained kindar conditions of complete starvation tion for a longer period than previous exie exit experience sib has shown to be possible to dispute over the meaning of a word would be too small an occupation t on in these busy and heated days but the value of the glorious beverage aa which nature has so abundantly provided for fon the beneal benefit t of mankind is worth enlarging ng nand time is not wasted in bringing it to the atten attell tb public water it ap nik peart ia is capable of supporting life and nourishing the body ina lna in a larger degree than has been supposed and while child this demonstration should not have haire the effect of causing people to drench themselves with natures free drink to the world it may cause soma some bome who imagine that it has no hu nil qualities because it ia is a fluid to adopt its use as it comes flowing from the fountains of the earth unmixed with stimulants or flavorings in A all ali 11 the processes by which the human system ia ii sustained repaired and vitalized vitali zed are not yet fully comprehended ended even by the wonderful chemist who professes to 11 thoroughly understand the properties of vf the elements A great many so called elements have been p proven roven not to be elementary and science is continually shifting its ground from points once considered sure and impregnable it may yet be shown that dr smith the faster of newburyport ia Is correct in his idea that the atmosphere imparts nutriment largely to toman man I 1 as it certainly does to trees and plants ants the action of or food ou on the E human uman sa system astern may yet be proven di merent different in some respects to that which is now accepted as the pro cess it may be shown that its effects are such as to inci incite to th the e syb system tem to absorb electric atmospheric and other agencies that stimulate and support line life and to naoom accomplish as much by arousing the vital viuf energy to grasp and assimilate them abdy as by actual material supply there are a great many things in relation to the house we live in which even those who have grown grey in the study of biology physiology and many other have never dreamed of and dogmatism in matters in relation to it is not often found in their writings although it comes easy to the superficial whether dr tanner can survive the action of solid food after so long a fast is one of the present queries that no man can answer with tai tal walnty rity time will show we hope he will live to tell the story of his fast in detail and to reap some material profit from ironi his trying experience L 0 W 0 MINING THE MORMONS AND THE government UNDER the head bead of religious intel the grand rapids michigan timea times speaks of the celear celebration tion I 1 in this city on the of july but that paper falls into a singular blunder in debiting the deseret NEWS with some stupid remarks in lu regard to mining and hostility to the government ern ment the times says the deveret deseret mews yews bews of salt lake imke closes A A long iong article on the subject thus elev eleven en years ag ago 0 a coterie of prominent mormons cormons was proscribed and excommunicated nor for advocating mining as a legitimate branch of industry indus dus try in U utah tah the ceremonies were concluded in the big tabernacle tabeh nacie nacle and consisted of speeches and music it was full fuli to overflowing andere and presented an impressive spectacle there was less show snow pf af hostility to the government and outsiders than has been formerly made on chisan niver sary the federal officers of utah were invited to attend as guests the paragraph quoted by the ohp times never appeared in any article in this paper it is part of a telegram which some dispatch fiend sent over ve r the wires and which has appeared in several eastern journals it contains one direct and unequivocal falsehood and others othera by im implication 11 cat the sta statement temen that ari e eleven e ven years ago a number of persons were excommunicated for advocating mining is untrue several persons who were cut oft the church some years ago were advocates advocate of mining at a tim time when ewhen it was not considered for the best interests of the people to encourage the a earch search for the so call ed precious metals but that was not the offense offence for which they lost the fellowship of their brethren there is no law of the church which says in letter or spir spirit it thou not engage in mining hundreds of persons have not only advocated the benefits of mining but worked in the mines and speculated in mining property and are still counted as members of the church the policy of the mormon P leaders which our history past and present has proven to be wise wise and beneficial was to encourage the ag agricultural stock raising and manufacturing in rid advance vance of mineral developments thel people were ere strongly to sta stay on th their air farms farmland and work in theil their their sh shops ops aps in instead of roaming over the hillsand hill hills sand and making holes in the ground f this counsel it has been demonstrated in numberless instances was was for the best good bood of abb the people who have god and make permanent homes A mining catnip cam P is 9 not ustia usually lly ily the be best at place in to learn reverence for sacred things nor regard regard for the rest restraint mint and peaceful pursuits of a religious community and those latter day saints sainta who have spent either time or money in mining speculations or dr enterprise enterprises have in a very large majority of instances lost in cash if bovid not in faith and proven that the counsel of the church authorities was good both from a temporal and an d a spiritual standpoint those who have chosen to embark in mining as a business have not been molested in anyway any way war the existence of gold and silver in tha mountains was known to president brigham young and others othen years before the influx of the mining element and that knowledge was kept quiet qui et because bemuse it waa was considered for the permanent interests of thistel this thi ster swei territory to th lay a broad and deep foundation of the tho essen essential eidl industries before the treasures of the moun mountains taing should be uncovered attraCt attracted attracting ID as they always do the lawless an and atho the disreputable as ivell iveli AS the 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