| Show THE EFFECTS OF editor deseret mews the recent editorial criticism 90 on n the outrage perpetrated upon the mo people plo pio of utah by parties who reside e here yet who ho never lose an opportunity port unity to defame the dhar character acter and intentions of their neighbors meets with the hearty approval of eve every well weli wisher of our prosperous territory people from travelling tra velling aro are often surprised at the character of the queries propounded to them but should it be a matter of when we realize tho the fact that their exists in our midst sf a class wh who make mahe it a daily practice to vilify and misrepresent the great majority of our citizens who button hole the tor torand and pour into hla his ear car a stream of falsehood the equal of which connot be found elsewhere who through a venal enal v pres scatter to the four winds stAtements that are simply horrick horri biu ble in the extreme it certainly speaks well for the law abiding proclivities and forbearance of the people that these men go whipped unpunished for the perpetration of 01 tiko tibo of crimes but do we not go a little too far in n the tha way of forbearance and Is asli it not acor much that we be asked tf t feis keis the hand that spurns us or respa ct the individual who so maligas maligns uee us thebe these interviews and statements written and verbal are the medium through which the world at largo large obtain very much of their information relative to utah and their effects are far reaching to illustrato illustrate this point a few years ago a young man in every way wor worthy thy and honorable born and reared in our midst was cruelly elly eliy murdered while on a mission in tho the state of as I 1 georgia but bah la it generally general ay known and understood that a belles beiles of written by I 1 a presbyterian e chool teacher then and now a resident of this city to a boston educational education til ill journal were wore among the chief incentives to the perpetration of that terrible deed T lat tat the misstatements contained therein relative to our condition socially and otherwise nerved the arm that fired tho the fatal shot and formed the basis of argument ar in the plea of counsel cou neel in extenuation of the murder not only la Is it true of this particular case but the persons persona and lives of many of our very best beat citizens abroad engaged in a labor of love are continually jeopardized by these thebe infamous statements having had some bome little ex experience peri perl in visiting portions of tho the world outside tf of utah I 1 am prepared to assert from a personal knowledge that the principal opposition to be met and animosity overcome in have their incentives here in our oun own midst it la Is fed and kept alive by falsehood furnished by those who know better and by those who ask business and social recognition at our hands bands men that wo mee tand pass the compliments of the 1 day with continually upon our streets 1 they may not number many but what of the great number who stand bland idly by and by silence give rive consent to the wholesale whole salo slander of the people Is there a man of them who dares to say aught in defense of the traducer traduced trad character of the fair daughters of our community than whom in all this broad land there are arel none nobler purer or more virtuous in thought oraeed or deed has there not almost come a time when forbearance ceases clees to baa boa bo a virtue when them these curs cuts that snarl and yelp at their betters bo be kicked off the side bide walk arshall or shall we have to wait until tho the ref refuge luge of lies Is swept away |
