| Show THE WORK AND responsibility OF THE slanderers SLANDER ERS til THE infamous libel against mr nir blaine and his wife tor for that is what we are bound to regard the tha story of the indianapolis di sentinel until the gentle mans adlaz denial is disproved is not auy aby more atrocious than many slanders thatA ave axe beeri been published by the foul and incendiary sheet issued in this daty jaty professing to bo be the mouthpiece 41 01 ol the gentiles utterly false and detestably vile attack s have been made through that sheet upon the personal character of prominent ladies and gentlemen of this community over and over again it has admitted to its columns communications pre pretended tented or otherwise of tife the filthiest kind involving nothing but the reputation of individuals the object in view could be naught but the gratification of personal spite and that prurient appetite that in a certain class is always ravenous no public service was rendered by publication no public interest demanded it the paper that has been made their fitting receptacle was the journalistic sewer into which they naturally flowed and while their purpose purpose wah wai was dastardly the only effect on the public mind was evil and corrupting no libel suits have been planted we are aware of for the simple reason that decent and sensitive people have been loth to notice the sheet in which the foul calumnies calum nies have appeared and to dive rive more publicity to the scandals scandal an and the ol of the authors author of the outrage precluded any likelihood of recovering damages while the composition of the counti gave little promise of lustic justic ein eln such cases that Tha tsuch such a paper can live in this community is an argument ar ament in favor of the peace lovin disposition disposition of the greal great reat majority of the people and of the kind of advice they receive from their leaders it is claimed by the vile thing that the people here are compelled to orders also that instructions have been given gisen to raise a mob a against ain t the slanderous sheet the fact that it has been permitted to ile le ou on without limit to libel the living to defame the dead to attack the private character of men and women young soung and old to blaspheme aminat against names held sacre sacred sacred 1 in a all ali christian circles and to pour out torrents ot of invective upon the people and their creed Is that its stories of desired riot and contemplated violence are as false as its assaults upon private character nor Is it true that the DESERET NEWS has ever counseled or wished for retaliation we have ever advised contempt contemptuous ous silence we have tided it as a rule we seldom notice the disgraceful 0 oran rutn of the slanderer the pimp the prostitute and the cowardly assassin of good names who behind a venal and vagabond press shoots ink and gall at those whom he be dare not mot meet face to face it I 1 Is only on some extraordinary occasion that we ever refer to its villainy or its existence we have charged that a great portion of the responsibility for the recent m murder of I 1 I 1 mormon I 1 I 1 elders in ten ne essee rests upon the preachers and writers of this city who promulgate falsehoods about the latter day saints prominent among them is the sheet in question the salt sait lake tribune bune bung it Is responsible in this way boul youl and venomous slanders representing our elders eiders as and everk everything thing that Is vile with concocted stories of outrages that never Oc cUred are aro published in that sheet and sent gent to places where the elders labor once lu a while awhile certain stories are admitted to be untrue the editors were deceived of course but while the lie is sent to do its work the refutation does not follow preachers are supplied with these infamous fabrications and they retail them to their hearers people who do not read are told these things and their minds are inflamed against the elders pure minded and self seif sacrificing mison rles rius from utah are heid held up as designing and lustful scoundrels and mobs ar arl ag 0 anizel to drive or murder ff IT t i t them the masked commit the deeds of blood but tiie tile promoters and promulgators of the lies which deceive the illiterate and marauders are arc the instigators ot of the crime erime they are in the sight of heaven be spattered with the blood of innocence murder is breathed in the sentences they have written assassination in the sentiments they they have published making and loving lies lles li es they have stirred up tip the ignorant to do that which they dare not accomplish in person erson and so ao they are 46 accessories a before the fact there are preachers in this city who are equally responsible before eternal justice for the deeds in georgia and tennessee at the revival meetings among the denizens of the backwoods and mountains in the south the falsehoods they have told are repeated with embellishment and the result is the gaping wounds of martyred marty red servants her ber of christ calling on heaven to avenge the blood of innocence innocence it is easy to make the connection it Is simple to fix the responsibility what then do we advise retaliation for the thousandth time no I 1 we ne never have advised it we have always counseled patience andave and we now say leave it tu to him who will vill render unto every man as his his work shall be but nut we want the lying and murderous hypocrites clerical and secular to understand der stand that we know and appreciate their work and arid its results |
