Show BASELESS AND 1 WE publish today to day an article fro the columns of the new yo tribune itis it la chiefly notable for i ultra character and the baseless c v ture tare of its assertions it is ia total unworthy of so eo influential and car cai ble a journal the tho bulk of its pr positions are ground groundless leses and it do not even attempt to give any e 0 t dence of their soundness the statement that the dis franc isemena of several thousand pol po nece dece mists in utah does dees not material mate aneca the issue because the chuoc chu rc also controls control 9 monogamists is cj absurd what conal cons atutes the church its mem member bersh eh the two classes named by the 2 7 bune bung then according to oll oil jhb e logic contemporary those who comprise the church control themselves this they certainly doin an individual capacity I 1 more ricH culous caIous still is the fled assertion that the church holds a monopoly of the land the mines ind and means of irrigation it is only necessary in answer to such a fall fali fallace aci act lons ions dus das statement to draw attention to the fact that here ali nii a elsewhere the disposal i of the land la Is entirely in the hands of the federal govern faient ment under the laws of the united states it is true that a aling are ahei of farming land Is ia owned by mormons cormons Mor mons for two potent res reasons they are in the overwhelming majority and essentially an ari agricultural people they have entered otheir gaeir ci olaida almaas as individuals and paid lite libe tibe government ithe the legal price lobody csobody hinders non itjin A tom taking the same course as sany sany bany of them have done and own age tracts of land in utah from chich t aich they reap leap the fall benefits in tr immon ammon mort moil with ine tae rest of 0 the peo e I 1 i that the church or its bemb members are loid old oid a monopoly or a I 1 icing g extent of mining property la is As wide of the fact as anything Q well be it is the other way bout with but little exception t ahe the se mines throughout are owned irl jai nidd niad lidd isad operated by non cormons mormons wor Mor mons 1 I it Iti scarcely Is L care e y necessary to answer 4 b bbs preposterous position clon cion that p peo ea g e Aw hoare are not in sympathy with 0 the ila church chuoc h are unable to make a 8 la giving nin hin ghere here the presence and pros len ign erity it of many people throughout tsa tan th taa tyyho who are not only not in har bar nony with mormon benti bentt sentiments ments 1 md ind views but actively in antigon bin hin lin to them la is enough to give that a strong refutation d how now long will it be before such as the new york paper whose article we pa publish will be a but euf af 14 candid and fair to admit graat the control by any power what ilhan eier tier only that which chieh la Is g 0 inherent and that every citi si im has the right to exer ezer exercise eise cise of the ballots of the people of utah is daily cally fi the ballot Is aj ie cret ciet no elector knowing how or anfor for whom his neighbor votes the tha takes a maat moat merciless position assuming mina without reason 14 tat are law defying without investigation with clr nir w from them every right under delaw e law not only would it rob hem bem of the franchise but of the tieta of 0 property and thus reduce thein no only to political but to ap unitary we would t I 1 have been pleased to have noted in tita 7 its article a tinge of magnanimity ethal j 1 it gives no evidence of a feeling crof d that character it is cruel as ideath aleath and unjust as aa Jeff jeffreys reys roys As evidence of the defiant atti attl stade vade tade of the cormons mormons Mor mons the speech aid ald A i made at the late nce AT 17 alluded to what callea forth at flie albe tie tib objectionable utterance utterances a the of buch such strained ultra ad md antagonistic views and benti daenba rj mente Da enta as aa the tribune publishes publia hes of what character were the complained I 1 of expression expressions they were simply 0 to o the effect that unjust akas feua and vindictive antagonism 19 tona bom tom toca every side was being hurled ij dinst the latter day saints and ea kat at they must look to god for pro kation ke tion this was seconded by confident expressions to the effect that athe the same biame providential power that had shielded and sustained them othus athus ihus thus far would continue to ward off threatened ed destruction in tho the fu ete ere ture these simple declarations of an understanding of this the popular attl atti aoude bade tade against the 19 Mormon Mor mons 9 21 with implicit faith in the 09 overruling hand of omnipotence has M lieen ligen b ben ban construed and into an exhibition of de defiance flance there Is ia heither neither treason nor defiance in the mormon community neither is ia there any resistance to the laws q 5 lad their courage and fortitude un nn anthe most inexcusable and unjust M u op pava poon la Is tue the grandest and no ablest liest bleat spectacle of tho the nineteenth 14 it cantu century ry |