Show CRUEL AND mendacious tiie trim news from tennessee published in mondays issue created a sensation in tile the community it was probably ably difficult for some persons to ima lma imagine ine lne inc that there could be found in this region among people familiar with the virtues of the latter day saints and the higher morality that prevails among them those who could endorse the in internal internal outrages depicted yet there are individuals here who will palliate any anti antl 11 lormon formon I 1 measure no matter how inhuman cruel barbarous baro arous or unconstitutional they are ready to apologize for murde murder r most foul no matter how inexcusable may be the circumstances under which the deed has been perpetrated so long as the b hapless I 1 P e s s victims are latter day saints ind Inde c edin d in those scenes of oppression and blood they but behold the results they hav have aided in brin bringing ing about by industriously spreading d ing lies to inflame the minds of th the 0 people at a distance against an innocent and honest community that under cover of the prejudice thus created they may carry out their black local de designs sIgni As might have been expected h however 0 we v e r by those who know of their depravity the conductors of the salt lake tribune endorse the anti mormon law passed in tennessee they also evidently exult over the later outrages perpetrated upon the elders there as they did over the horrible assassinations of last aum aul august lu in this mornings issue they approvingly reproduce an article from the new orleans times tenes democrat in hy which the following passages occur it was not without considerable popular opposition and feeling that this southern missionary work we rk was carried on mormons cormons aroused the people to tits of frenzy and d desperation p 8 pera pe ration lion tiou when they found their wi wives wises ves ses or daughters seduced by tho the elders and persuaded to adopt a religion founded on lechery and Immo immorality y A few months a ago ao o came another collision a far more serious one this in tennessee in which several of the saints lost their lives ilves this attracted the attention of the whole coun while some denounced the mob violence it was felt that the missionary work of the mormon priests was sufficient to vengeance As long as there is a law prohibiting prohibition polygamy the people will leave tee twe the 8 saints amythe to the law but should it be declared unconstitutional it is to b be feared that the mob will take the matter in its own hands and aad mete out its justice the people of those counties infested ested by the Alor mormons cormons mons have sworn to root out that immorality as one of the papers of that section remarked with the shotgun if necessary and the mormons cormons will find mob law worse that statute law the tribune says the article covers the facts fairly and that the law was intended really to be a protection to the cormons mormons Mor Alor mons surely mendacity combined with exquisite cruell cruelty 0 of f heart could n no 0 f urther further g go 0 th these ese qualities are even carried to the pinnacle I 1 of absurdity the idea of any person stating at this time of the day clay that laws are made for the particular protection and benefit ot of mor mons and especially that the place where such pro mor imor mon men legislation is produced ii i i the state of tennessee la Is too ridiculous culus for anything the endorsement of the assertion that elders seduced women in tennessee is in keeping with the balance of the tribune contradictory antl anti mormon pro ramme gramme but is not in harmony with district attorney dick sons statement to the effect that it is well known that sexual sins are con damned by the formon people and d that their relations are confined within n the marital circle it approves the assertion about rooting bootin P out that immorality yet it and its co laborers in the crusade have been compelled to abandon the sexual morality subterfuge it further confirms its former infamy by endorsing the position of the times democrat regarding dlug diug the murder of mormons cormons Mor mons by mobs being justice we feel as if we owed an apology to our readers for referring to the salt lake tribune again our excuse Is that it may occasionally serve a good purpose to exhibit the fact that there exist exists sinthe in the form of men yuen individuals who are arc so abnormally depraved and unprincipled that it Is a question whether the last spark spar klof of honor and humanity that may at any time birne have existed in their breasts has not been extinguished leaving them totally devoid of the kinder and better feelings of the race |