| Show AN OBJECT OF PITY IN reference to the recent journalistic comments about the autra outrageous bous statement made mada by J it good goodwin win of the I 1 salt lake tribune to a newspaper reporter of leadville colorado to the effect that hir hii his son who had bad geen killed by mormons cormons Mor mons together w th other equally inexcusable falsehoods the paper named says if the editors of the wems news and her nep ald would take the trouble troubie to see J 21 goodwin and aud his family we think even malicious and destitute of heart and soul as the they are they would be ashamed to assali assail assali him no matter what he may have said or may say in future the talk about assailing goodwin is the rubbish it was he who made the assault which was unjustifiable and foundationless what we did was to expose the infamy of his bis accusations and call cal I 1 apon him to exhibit the grounds for his statements or stand convicted as a malicious falsifier falsia er and bearer of false witness we can understand that mr hwn goodwin in view of late events that have brought grief to his door is probably equally as buchau object of commiseration as one at which condemnation should be hurled and as for his family nothing but sympathy can be entertained toward them the condition of Goodwins mr mind however elbr is hardly a palliation for the outrage he has committed and which even the tribune does not attempt to sustain unless indeed the man is beside himself the theory of mental aberration is the most charitable view to take of the matter and if 11 such is not his condition and he has a a park spark of nobility in his bis h s nature cewill he will correct the wrong he h has as done and remove the impression r I 1 assion th that at must otherwise obtain of E hla utter d depravity epra vity in ift any event however we must admit after all that the tribunes tribune Tribu nels neis Is not far wrong in taking the position that mr goodwin is a subject more mord fit for commiseration mise ration than attack and while we cannot but abhor the injustice groundless malignity malig malignity and even ingratitude he has exhibited we wish him no harm he is in the hands of a just god and it is in order for the community he has so grossly maligned to forgive him the tribune fling to the effect that we arc are malicious and destitute of heart and soul is is rich from such an abandoned and envenomed source the poisoned dart is pointless in view of the fact that with all the detestation nv we L feel for the unjustifiable diabolical course of the persons who conduct the tribune a feeling of pity f frequently asserts itself in relation to them for it is a lamentable spectacle spec table to see men become so utterly recreant 0 o every principle of true ma manhood |
