Show SELF CONVICTED IN last evenin evenings 7 s NEWS the following 0 occurred in an editorial which coin corn mente dupon the proceedings in the school tax case lately brought to a close in the third district court the alleged argument made at the closely close by assistant district attorney varian was supremely ridiculous in some of its phases ile he laid a most extraordinary y charge against thealor mons 11 he accused them of not their children to the sectarian religious U s mission schools that they ligh lish might t be reformed he lie must have been catching at straws to put forward such a plea as that in a case in which he was seeking to prove that thealor mons taught sectarian tenets in the district schools it was an argument for and add against sectarian education in 1 lh 11 tille one anc breath surely mr carians Ya Va rians ulam is of such an ex extreme cua as to reach the very border ut or such an ail exhibition of folly aa a coni equi complaint plaint that the members of one onu religious body do not put their children in a position to be weaned from their views ot of theology and be won over to others is not often equall ed not to say surpassed here is what the salt lake tribune says about that paragraph ilits issue of this morning the arhe NEWS persists in misrepresenting the tb attorneys for tile the plaintiffs in the school tax case will the tile NEWS take back its statement that mr varian varlan found fault with the mormons cormons for not sending their children to the mission inis sion slon schools nothing of the kind was said by the attorneys I 1 here is the substance of what mr varian said ay as shown in the minutes ml and as could be sustained under oath by every reliable person composing tile the crowd of spectators who were present when the assistant U S attorney so feo ex expressed pressed himself mr air varian complained that mor mons do not patronize the mission schools I 1 s sent se nt here to reclaim re clatin their thein children I 1 they preferred to send their i children to d district strict schools where they can be taught tile the religion of their parents the following was wai embodied in a nav NEWS s editorial on thursday last bast perhaps this absence ol 01 present matter can be clearly exhibited by the cation catlon of a quotation read by abst V U S district attorney Attorn oy varian from a discourse delivered by prest john taylor tay lor april 0 1879 the purposes of its presentation in court by the prosecution was waa to show liow the opposition of the church to the tile laws of the land furthermore being gathered together te ive necessarily form a bouy body politic if it you please and we cannot help ourselves if we would but we wd do not want to we frame laws accord according I 1 ug to the usage of the nation we are associated socia ted with for being here and finding ourselves in a territory of the united states we necessarily have had to organize a government which has assumed a territorial form i and that means a legislature with its enactments and all the various adjuncts of a government laws have to be made officers haye to be created to execute those laws and we necessarily become bacome an integral part of these united states and have to perform all the political functions associated therewith we are united thell theil as a body politic as an integral part of this government and it becomes our duty to submit to the laws and institutions of that government to all that are arc constitutional special notice was called to this remark oy by tue reader framed and based upon correct principles and not in violation of what the fathers of the country instituted we want to acknowledge the lord in all thin thid things gs temporal advell as veli well vell as spiritual in the same article of the tribune from which we have already quoted the following occurs 1 one of its the news characteristic tricks tricky in this connection was as to reproduce a quotation from a sermon of john taylor read in evidence by counsel for tile tiie defendants then claim that it was read evidence incidence in by plaintiffs attorney and on this falsehood throw throws a whole bucket full bf tithing office slop over aver the attorneys whose efforts were directed against that union of church and 8 stute state ta t e c championed ha mp I 1 on e d by the news but then the editor of that sheet is one of the leading lights of that class of elders boasted of b by y t the h e prophet when lie he declared that he co could u ad greatest g eanest and smoothest clars liars in the world the cunn ingest and most adroit thieves and any other shade of character you can mention in the same issue of the Tribune ams dUs mornings the use of the extra extract effrom from president taylors discourse by the prosecution in the school tax case is not admitted but andy sustained editorially showing how bow the editors grope in the dark in relation to each others movements the deseret news on thursday evening in an editorial copied a part r t r ag of a harangue delivered ou once ce by john 6 it taylor Tay lorand and said it was read by assistant district attorney varian for the purpose of showing the opposition of the church to the laws of or the land the burden of the extract was th atthe lie tie mormons cormons were a part of the people of the united slates states that necessarily they were an integral integ r a part of the government and mu must bey obey all laws that were constitutional the news asks with upraised hands hoty hov hoy the words could be con construed as am anything thing ele else eie than expressions of a patriotic character evincing an unmistakable disposition in favor of supporting and sus calnin tile the laws and aud the tho country countey the answer is that the words would have that loo look to an outsider but to one who knovs knows the ways of theA the mormon lormon chiefs it would have hae hao an entirely different meaning ile he would see how under the clause all laws that are constitutional a loop hole is found to charge anything which conflicts with mormon priestly lav law as unconstitutional in its issue of last sunday the tribune gave an account of the previous days proceedings and in fn connection with tile the redirect examination of MU mii ando pratt on the stand for the prosecution it credits the U S attorney with this counsel read from a sermon by john taylor delivered in logan city in 1879 claiming that the church must have political power it is unnecessary for us to descend I 1 within a thousand miles of the low level to which tie tic tribune editors have sunk and call them liars ars and pre varica tors they make it so plain by their own showing show in as to render statements of that nature superfluous chev h e daily dally proclaim themselves as tu such c fi and need no assistance from froin us in placing them where they belong |