Show SIX SPECIMEN falsehoods tite tiie salt lake like organ ol of slander rises a little this morning from the mud which it threatened to throw at the editor of then pursues its old course ol of repe refe repeating atin g falsehoods about this paper here are the threatened exposures of our editorial course and policy after speaking about the murders at mountain meadows it says the news charged that them the murders were by indians when every editor on the thi sheet knew better and must mu st have bave ave seen been a part of the plunder of tile the train brou brought here and divided ainuu among the brethren thu thy NEWS was published when the rebellion was raging rain ant und everi every every sin siu sympathy pathy ol 01 it was enlisted in the hope that the two section would until the country and the govern ment would be overthrown sheer exhaustion the was published published here when a band of masked mormons cormons called an harmless har inless christian physician to his door asked him to go on an errand of mercy and murdered him at his bis gale gate the NEWS editor knows acho those murderers were and has for years but has kept silent about their crime the NEWS was here when a body of masked men assaulted mr stenhouse and his wife on east temple street and covered them with filth and had no word of protest its editors have known of dozens of men being killed or mutilated simply simp because they were not mormons cormons Mor mons an and have never entered one protest after all this it charges that the murders in tennessee were directly incited by by the gentiles of this city but principally by this journal these same stories have been told with wi thone one exception tor for years and everybody here that Is acquainted with tue facto knows that they are untrue the mountain meadows massacre on which the organ brgan drones a perpetual moh monotone otone mas togs the work of indians as stated at the time in this paper and it was not known until a long time af ter wards either elther by the ed editors of if this paper or others in this city that any white whit man was present at the tragedy traced the present writer was not in this this country at that period during the war no such espre expressions as those attributed to the NEWS were made in this paper as a careful cief examina tion lion of the flies has demonstrated but on the con arary the hope and prophecy of the termination of the war and the restoration of the union appeared frequently I 1 a nits aits its colu columns inus inns it has never be been n proven by a scintilla muns muna or otherwise killed the physician who was murdered and the assertion that the editor of the NEWS knows who the murderers were Is an infamous fabrication he has not the remotest idea who were the actors in that tragedy but has believed lor tor yearb rears ears th that at it was done by the victims victim s own associates and charged upon the mormons cormons Mor mons the NEWS at the time published the notice of rewards forthe for the discovery of the assassins Mas nas sIns chief among which was one from fresl Freol president dent bri briehan ham young when the assault on mr 1 lir stenhouse was committed the NEWS deprecated the act in strong language and did protest against it the editors pt the NEWS have no knowledge of any person being killed or mutilated simply because because they were nod not mormons cormons Mor mons the assertion in the tribunes tribune is another wilf wilful ul lie it Is not a mere mistake but a statement manufactured purposely and intentionally to deceive people abroad who may read this list of slanders and the NEWS has not charged that the murders in tennessee were dire directly etly incited by the gentiles of this city the last lie Is ig the only new one of that batch bate b it is lust just as foul and false faise in its intent as the others we have traced the incitement to and tind murder la id tennessee and elsewhere the actual criminals tor the preachers and editors in their own neighborhood who have been influenced by bythe the falsehoods told in this city by the salt lake tribune and some of the so called christian preachers who have made it their business to malign r the mormons cormons Mor mons we do not makenny make any charge change against the thi gentiles of this city da as a 41 class dass but it Is the fashion with the organ of slander when anything is said that reflects on I 1 its own perfidy to claim that it is said against the gentiles P of utah or aga agn against est the government of the united states As though one filthy sheet and its utterly uner unprincipled n writers imagine that they are circled al all ali the gentiles there are in utah and that they form the government of the united states they never have the grace to state an opponents position or proposition fairly boaster boasting ig continually that they are american gentlemen they do not exhibit a single quality that belongs to manhood to say nothing of gentility centi lity and reckless reck less fess misrepresentation enters into all their tirades s galust against the mormons cormons Mor mons 11 and against the deseret NEWS which has let them rave on unanswered and unnoticed for years our recent references feren ces to a little of their outrageous conduct seems to encourage them beyond alea measure tire it they will keep within anything like ilke ik reasonable le bounds they may lie onas before without exposure for fun we do not want to taint this paper with any of their ef fusions even for th the sake of exposing g their falsehood but we do not drle drive down the stake of bf perpetual silence we shall speak when wa we think nt tit and pass by their old hackneyed yarns bits of slander spurts or of blackguardism notice when we choose A decent journal that opposes mormonism gitil argument and attacks it however fiercely with decent weapons may be met in in controversy without loss of self respect but a sheet that makes a specialty of slander invites the aid ald of black hiack blackguards guards and scandal gatherer sand uses the stinkpot and the squirt gun guu in its dally fu sUade can only be treated with contemptuous silence or exposed and denounced or its infamy evert even one of its six charges d against adust the NEWS today to day contains a direct falsehood or an intentional perversion ut luf the truth and these are arc mild samples of the vile stuff which it is continually discharging against the mormons cormons Mor mons in genera general and the ret per NEWS newa lu fa particular we apologize to our local readers for fon forthe the notices which we have given to the or organ an of slander |