| Show there yone youe i upon which the adrela who w ho lie about utah by lightning and by the thy press genera generally liy lly cound count with some game security that ish isz isi the lice af pf effort on the part of the people chrey misrepresent to counteract the evil intended the public mind is poisoned I 1 against the mor mons and antii very veny little Is given by way of antidote it is true of the ques question que stion tida is not wanted and that it is with g beat reat difficulty that facts relating to it can be presented so as to bu be considered but nevertheless it seems to us ui that duty requires the truth to be besent sent forth as widely as the falsehoods tiie the idea that lue tue t 11 e fabrica la brica 0 our enemies are too absurd or monstrous to be believed is fallacious people will believe anything about the mormons cormons Mor mons and this willingness to accept the grossest un truths and most moat ridiculous exaggerations in re giard to utah is nol not nod confined to the unlettered and unthinking the word sent Bent from rom rum washington when the rumor was started that there was danger of an outbreak hero on last pioneer day sho gho shows ws that wild and wilful false faise nood hooi deceives leading national officials as well as common folks the army thau that was sent here in was star started tedon on baseless rumor the proposition to forward troops here last july was suggested by wilful false faise falsehood nood hood and tiie tue latest latest attempt to raise a disturbance and get martial law established sprung h from the ite lie that armed mormons cormons Mor mons 4 were contemplating an outbreak these vile endeavors ende avora of scoundrels here official or otherwise should be counteracted and audit it should not dot be left to two or three newspapers to refute the falsehoods which kinjuro business damage the territory deceive the public and endanger the lives and liberties ol 01 thousands men in utah whose interests teresta are involved in the peace and ought to exert themselves in their own behalf if they do not take other things into consideration if it the telegraph is used for tor lies ties it should also be used for truth to correct the false impression produced whether upon the public or upon the government everyone every one knows that there is not and has not been the slightest test danger here of an uprising cuprisin 9 or riot or public disturbance with any danger to to the public peace and yet adventurers and gillians vil lians who expect to profit by a revolution in utah can tan inflame the popular mind abroad and deceive the head of the nation with wilful falsehoods about the condition of affairs in this city and territory and scarcely a hand is lifted to prevent the evils that might result irom from the shameful imposition both mormon and Geil gentile tile tiie business men are interested in the maln mala maintenance of peace in utah they should do something tor for its preservation they can at least least when the conspirators here send forth their libels unite ina lna in a protest against the conspiracy and be as diligent in action to prevent a catastrophe as the lains laing are in attempting to create one it is because they can lie with impunity that the conspirators are so bold and reckless in their deceptions if those who have the greatest interest in averting the troubles that may grow out of these repeated falsehoods would exert themselves enough to expose the calu calumnies calum maies males nies the defeated plotters would not feel so free to tamper with the lives and fortunes of the people of utah |
