| Show A BASE slander REPUTED A arfin yew vew weeks ago the tha public were informs through dispatches to the press that the cormons mormons Mor mons had murdered soma bome settlers in arizona on the san ban pedro river niver in order onder to prevent cl gentile colonization in their neighborhood we refrained from making any remarks on thib this evident falsehood until wo could learn the facts in the case the following jetter letter gives the particular tio tic ti a lare iare and the clippings from arlina papers below balow should be ba bunni sufficient clent to refute the slander it is not the paper which published the libel aga against hut but the mormons cormons Mor mons will now make the correction which truth and justice demand of them it 13 Is 13 in accord with the spirit of the times to bay say all manner ol of evil falsely against the latter day saints and then to remain silent or else answer with Jeer jeers hand sand and jibes j ibes when the refutation comes no matter how completely it may overturn the first doport gl david march I 1 1883 editor bret fleg flew will wili out SometIme in february two or three men mea located a piece PICCO or of golem mon men mont ment t land about two aniles below my houte on lil lib tho san pedro ledro and arli el commenced ommen ced digging a wel wol on the 0 O I 1 was abscent ou a tour through sulphur springs and gila valli vain fl q two 0 f tho r bovo above men were mu murdered Lr dered aj and you will beo seo by a clip clipping pinc from th the latty lattu epo ept tanh manch march 26 that the ghe mormons cormons Mor mons camo in tod for the tha blamo also by a clipping from the tha tombstone daliy dally R republican 23 a dinst that tha the two are now la in our county sor tor which the good people peopled of st bit lavil navid reel feel rhe the of a few apao Apac hes heg driven from theil thell the r stron gholda in sonora into arlom ar zona contla continua will ba short and it if we count tha Ba aUment ment of 01 tho pa papers ar r s there will wili ba f nv eft ett lott lett in a few months yours truly D P thle thie the thic annexed is from the tomb af On anear eAr epitaph ph of march tt 11 ll ft A the tho chronicles telegrams from this place in ID ra reference ference to the tha murder of bl ahlson and partner rnear near benson denson does great graat reat injustice to the mormon coony colony on oa the ban pedro peoro by attributing tho murder to them to prevent any gentiles from ketting a la their neighborhood tho the epitaph the mormons cormons Mor mons but barring their beastly religious dogmas believes bel bei loves ieves them tham generally to bo be peaceable and law abidi ar more e especially specially the tho bemben of tho colony mentioned i and and aud this 13 Is 13 from the tombstone Be publican republican ol of march it appears that tho the mystery of tho the killing 0 of f biah dahlson lson laon nad and his partner on en the san ban pedro on sho fhe insi ins hla bla come como to and that two mexicans from bengen neneen wora wera the murderers in a drunken moment thoy thor the tho j contes confes confessed se I 1 their crime to a negro nearo by tha gha namo name of george 11 bush who deputy sheriff breca carid carld go who was la in bensan benson on oa business ilo iio brought word to sherler wards ward who started out on monday bionday last and wont went to benson beason lle Ile where he met bush whom he ha took in a wagon anand and started arver arven the tho criminals no fie sound found them at st davids where they were arre arrested nod their namee were robles and gar cla cia sheriff ward brought them in last evening U heir was wag set bet tor ton today to day before justice swain although the tho tenets and teachings of the mormon church are directly opposed to the taking of human life except in legal punishment for capital crime it Is biffl cult to make the public understand that the tho cormons mormons Mor mons are the list last parsons persons likely to in any sueh guch outrages as those attributed to them if any person calling himself a L latter lattur day dwy baina or mormon la a guilty of any of those deodis of violence which are properly condemned by tho lawas lawns they are by all peo pla who ic oeners rights he cannot claim and the world cannot fairly ch charge argle argie that this thia lawless acts are inculcated or permitted by his hia h lg rol roi religion I 1 fon ion it iba isa is a principle of the mormon creed that aa a murderer hath no eternal lifa ilfe abiding in him thou ehalt not hill has been renewed as aa a direct commandment of god jod t ta tho the latter day saints and they have been further instructed that if any of them shall kill they shall not only be ba dealt with by the church authorities and judged on their fellowship but he or she bhe shall be ba delivered up to the lawa laws of the tha land s our people who are building ap the waste places in other territories are not disposed to interfere with the righta of other persons whether of person or property they will respect the laws of the territories or states in a which they reside and no one need be under any anxiety concerning them they will be found to bo be the very best colonizers of all the new now comers in those regions and the most valuable of citizens not only bringing with them material wealth in the means and ability to develop the natural resources of the country but exhibiting all those qualities which aro are essential to an orderly and progressive community every mormon who settler in arizona is a source of richest j to the territory and so with thosa those of our people who bettle bettie in other places As to tho the beastly religious dogmas of the cormons mormons Mor mons s they consist in making criminal in the highest dezree degree any sexual intercourse out of the marriage relation and in encouraging matrimony for the purest and hollest of purposes permitting men under certain strict regulations of a religious tous lous character to mam mar marry try more than one wife we are willing to compare our religious dogmas with those of our traduce traducers rs at any nay time and have no fear of thel the results sulu re wo we commend the refutation of i the slander rlander about the arizona mormons cormons Mor mons to the kindly considers con sidera llon tion of choso who published the I 1 falsehood and that some of them will havo the maull manliness man linesa nesa to malce make the needed correction |
