| Show THE GENTLEMEN OF THE TRIBUNE tim tue fastidious gentlemen of the salt lake tribune have completely deluged us with a flood of their invincible logic they have in their own peculiar style hurled at us an Ir avalanche of reasoning and we presume it Is in order for us now to go down into the depths of humiliation consequent upon our irretrievable defeat we had bad supposed that we had exhibited the perfidy of the self styled american gentlemen and their ilk and successfully shown their de depravity in connection with the irons fowier fowler D cavity ow er sd seduction and abortion case doubtless these refined gentlemen cent rent lemen thought so f for fon or a time themselves and the general bublic public felt positively certain about it athey their energies and fired a broadside which has nad had a telling effect on themselves they were at a decided disadvantage too for bein situated on the lowest depths depth sto to which humanity is capable of reaching they had hau to point their gums guns upward at an angle of forty five degrees here are specimens mens ot of the ponderous lo loic logic ic with which we have been dislodged tod effrom from our proved tilon the bastard in charge of the NEWS psalm singing male prostitute god deformed wretch I 1 these are a few specimen phrases addressed to a member of bf our staff taken from f rom an article in this mornings issue of the paper edited by iam gam american rl gentlemen gem gea lemen who bathis by this display of rage are making themselves f food f for ar our merriment their impotent anger is so furious as to throw them into grotesque contortions tort ions they remind the spectator of the agonized antics of a group of barefooted lunatics dancing an involuntary jig upon an iron floor brought to a gitte witte white heat the stimulating flagging consisting of the complete and unanswerable arraignment by the NEWS which has their true inwardness ward ness the advocates and apologists of the libertine the prostitute and andl abortionist When these refined gentlemen do not arouse the visibilities or disgust of decent people they excite in them a br feeling of mingled pity and contempt they are sadly disordered and need V a sedative to calm their troubled nerves they should try a teaspoonfuls lof soothing syrup and they should sure to wipe their mouths with a nand kerchief kerchiefs as the internal filth that fills them Is oozing from their facial open in ings cs here Is a quotation from them the m lid iid mannered gentlemanly editors of tl tb tribuna in relation to our arraignment of them and their kind in connection with the irons fowler seduction and abortion case the thought struck him alm that it would be a stroke of genius on his part pua to involve some innocent names name a to try to construe some acts of natural friendship into attempts to defeat justice and especially if he could in some way make it seem that the fhe trib in some form remiss in its duty that le ie would be a master stroke so he e wanders through column after column to worm first out of his own falsehoods then rinds a detached sentence in an article printed in this journal years ago and which when wi written itten was an ah argument to prove that some innocent amusements even to the drinking of a glass of beer or the smoking of a cla cl cia cigar a r were not so bad as the slavery havery which chains this people and construes that to mean that we indorse seduction and kindred crimes no now w for what the tribune I 1 calls I 1 innocent amusements we quote from an editorial in that paper of march ath umi dui under the raper taper head ead of what utah wants 11 it incorporated what purported to be some remarks made by an acquaintance of the tribune editor one of his own kind made to him personally so nally at all events I 1 rejoice to see the young mormon hoodlums playing billiards getting drunk running fic ftc nning eith with w A bad women any anything tAing to break the shackles ahne they were born in and that every so cabied called virtuous or religious influence only makes the stronger 11 in the same article articie was given the tribune editors own endorsement of these innocent amusements I 1 by which h the xoung young oun mormons cormons Mor mons were to be freed freaa freedom is the first requisite of man manhood hool and it if it can be won without excesses so much the better if it cant I 1 never mind the excesses win the freedom take these sentiments in connection with the position of the tribune when it charged the mormons cormons Mor mons with having trumped up the irons case to blacken the tiie characters of gentlemen the guilt of the man on whose person was found the most damning eviden evidences ces of d depravity epra vity is admitted by disown f friends by their efforts to cover up the facts of and compromise the case but he is a gentleman after the tile tribune tribunes unes s own heart one of its own kidney who las has has been drawn into the vortex of ruin by just such influences as are wielded by it and its sympathizers now listen to what this depraved sheet says about irons this young mormon lormon who is charged with this crime has been struggling upward withdrawing somewhat from the close fanatics of his creed and mingling min lin with business men mark the express expression lon ion struggling u upward ward this is what the anti mormon regenerators regene call gling upward from the moral restraints stra ints ot oi mormonism mormonism some oi of the people interested in the tribune should cople look 00 I 1 after the gentleman who writes such committal articles for every time he dips his pen in filth he jabs it right into his own eye obscuring his sight and giving himself the paper and those whose organ it Is 18 away struggling u upward ward I 1 until he reaches the pinnacle cli of of tribune excellence upon which he poses as a destroyer of female virtue a libertine and an alleged abortionist what an admission of moral debasement is this surely shame and judg judg ment have fled to brutish beasts I 1 and the tribune men have lost their reason and every sense of decency As for the the mingling with business men and the reasons for so great an interest being taken in john W irons to screen him from justice we will hold what information we have on that point jn n reserve the alleged criminal appears to have acted in more than one or two capacities in theofleld ther nield field of immorality our ed comments on this case have been made necessary by the malicious course and lying iving statements ot of the tribune our locker ideker is not ex es hat hansted isted the conductors of that vile paper make covert threats wu we treat them themas as we do their filthy epithets which by them are substitutes for facts and argument we heed them not they are but a puff of miasmatic vapor from a pile of putrefaction |
