| Show TIME TO CALL A HALT i 1 lw will ht ha end a p plain 1 ain and unvarnished account of th the difficulty between mr N W clayton and a newspaper reporter which has made quite a ripple on the current of bait salt lake s clety ety we ye need not inform our readers that there is a publication in this thia city elty which lives by libal libel and emd revels in putrescent gossip and unsavory slander abder sl its utter lack of principle and complete disregard of decency are BO so ir well weli ell eli known that anything affecting personal character which appears in its columns has no weight whatever in this community 1 11 ople cole abroad however may be deceived by the bold boid boldness nesa of its statement statements and the impunity with which it assails prominent citizens it has been permitted to utter the most abominable falsehoods con men and women to alig indulge e AU in blackguardism and clune into peoples peopled flaa fina private walt Wait alig nna ana comment co ent upon matters that crould be sacred to tia the families to which alone they belong to burlesque and aud ridicule corbe corse and g ma 41 bority a as holy and divine to abuse the living and revile the dead ito paint good 0 d men mer with irre kosc nose CL 51 h iff inn f the belh blackest chest colons Is folo jaIo load aa pu aurand rand 1 1 en W ceif and with the most ost odious epithets to use vi me ird filthy language about persons and api principles entitled at least osbe treated with respect to 10 im in puza puga of public m W cause d aptacy vate character without excise to s aromnd th 0 degraded creatures whose greatest delight la Is ti ta md thili venom upon ar upright juht add au d respected caid citi citizens hena keni in fi hort horl to act att as ag tue xue the r tnt tat een uen teu and 11 d sharral typed beastliness bety ery ra rarely ely some one has hag been goad soad edento 0 abec agen hyita alacia to denand de nana nand uana 41 4 of bf mme ame mo ivors ta t than ben fin usa msp usually pally us g glaring 1 lir ing n ii and dulf duif lui iri one bur tor two in fauto falling failing to obtain other ether bati sati personal a skulk ip z ru tamay tamsy ba yske eske de 01 hapl libi I 1 the answer ie Is them ohp miserable 1 i th is jie nie he cotret of anything any thing tho 1 lil adl 0 fant tant n that ur nothing is ii too sacred for their pro fanity nothing too low JOW and dirty for their comment comments so they haye have not been interfered with ThoD rho tho deseret MERET treated them with uniform silent contempt they are too dirty to touch they are too vile to notice except abonce in a wholesome thing so strikingly loathsome as to force temporary attention attentions provokes hasty comment we would rather they should continue abas abusing ing us ahan than libel libei ua us with anything like praise if they could damage us at all it would be by saying something favorable about us we dont want the encomiums of such despicable mud sl ingers tho the scavengers of journalism the night of the press the attack upon mr clayton CI ayton as confessed by the reporter in court was M made de from hearsay thoro there have been cases of personal abuse worse than this with no more foundation people have been accused of of fences against the law their names being published when the whole story has haa been a lie ile ar and aud d no notice has been taken of the slander blander this has been done over and over again the majority of our citizens have been able to see bee that they not under the necessity of defending themselves vea from the assaults of a sheet without any other reputation than that of a common liar the character assassins who stab with their pens at the tho reputation of decent people have not the tho grace or common decency to make a respect respectable ab e retraction when the wrong they have done Is proven to them the apoi apology is usually worse than the assault the best thing to do hi 3 to jet let them alone pay no attention to their nastiness but if anything is attempted it should be done thoroughly in mr Clay olay craytons tons tong case he would have been justified in pitching the intruder into his house and domestic affairs necks neck and heels into the tho street and we think that here is the place to call a halt and utter a word of warning to the impudent scoundrels who not content with li belling a man through the press prees go BO so far as a to enter his domicile for fon the purpose of prying into his family affairs personal sona sons chastisement in buch euch abase a case think is not only mor allyz legally Justi let it be bounder understood that thiis this lousiness caa nua golo sou a eb little littleto too koo far we shall not nox counsel forbearance beyond a certain limit we have advised and pursued a policy of quiet indifference ruu rut rut but when it comes to tala taia paul pry invasion of a m mans a s home we say hoid hold on n no na a longer it men who have be without retaliation for years the most unprovoked abuse once let the fire fly we tell those dirty sticks that it will be quick burning for them we have no objections to any attack upon our principles or comments upon the public act acts 11 of public men we believe in the tho liberty of the p press ress we N V e will sustain it with all our power we will contend for it in favor faver of an opponent as much aa as in our own behalf but these lying slanderers slander ers erb of good men and women our oar leaders fathers mother eib erb wives sisters sitters and daughters ought to cease at once or something efficient enni effi clent should be done to stop them we do not ex expect peet t hn t iho that write for ta t FE IQ infamous sheet will voluntarily CP ccase their ribaldry personal abuse t anity and blackguardism but bu t t pep per interest elin in itha itha itka concern who be and d wb doubt not brej alej ashamed of ata lying ard urd und and per pen er saal abuse if thy iby they do not interfere lidd nid rid purge ilof its may jeome zeoma a time timo who consider hawe have aie alt reason reabon ca can n e atwill wili hakea clean sweep of th rass f ff if I 1 |
