| Show THREATS mats BATS augu 1 I 1 pienta time thi organ of slander alandt r does dols not like our review of its untruthful statements concerning the remarks of speakers hp eakers at the memorial services sen ices it claims now that the writer of the mel libel wa wag was not present atthe at the meeting but obtained his information from other ler partle parties s and believed what he heard this was not stated in the editorial containing the untruth which we ex posed exposed it was not given as hearsay or as report it was state stated d as a matter of fact the writer seems to have hae attached more importance to the remarks of visitors than to the statements of the tribune reporter orter in the pretended synopsis of the addresses delivered eli ell vered on Sunday published in that paper on tuesday no such remarks were sAvere attributed to the as charged in the edi edl editorial torAl the writer of that article shows that he shared the common distrust of tribune reports he believed the visitors from whom he obtained his secondhand information in preference to the regular reporter of his own sheet this was so far sensible and if he hid had sh given en tile the statement as hearsay instead of makin making the charge direct he would not have athe been een so much to blame I 1 As to the life and character ot of the oe i editor of this paper if they were as bad as possible and aad the charges that might be made against him were facts instead of more hearsay that would not affect in any aray way the me que question S ti at I 1 I issue defaming the character charach r of an individual will not turn into truth th falsehood which we exposed A it is the custom of the tribune to tol put words into mens lips that they never uttered and then proceed to show how foolish and wicked they are for entertaining the ideas thus expressed also to assume certain absurdities as 11 mormon doctrine and go on to argue against them this Is 19 done for outside effect and accomplishes a certain measure of desired results that kind of misrepresentation has hag continued for years as is weli weil known to all classes of people here her and ye we have hive pursued the policy of silence as a mark of our contempt for such a course and now because we choose to comment on a few of the palpable false hoods that appear in that sheet gliedt it its h scribes scribes instead of refuting our arguments threaten to open tile tild batteries lof of their billins billingsgate gate upon the personal character of the editor wbk dires dares to dispute their li bellous assert assertions assertion lon ion eve even n when by their own admission the charges made as their own turn out to be founded on hearsay if this thib I 1 is s not cowardly and contemptible what words will fitly describe such attempts at intimidation timi dation if they would nave have any effect upon the course of the editor of this paper he would despise himself as ulue nine much raper gapen as he does those who resort r to such mean sto muzzle an opponent we have no quarrel with a fair antagonist tag onist we neither ask nor expect those who diffen differ with us to cease or mitigate their warfare we only complain of wilful falsehood and interi lional misrepresentation and against that we expect to present the truth to the ithe best ot of our ability and alid we know of nothing that will deter us from performing what we believe belleve to be our duty |
