Show DODGING THE ISSUE WITH its common shuffling and prevarication the tribune tries to wiggle out oat of its position in regard to the three young men who declined to sign the conspirators petition to congress four for the disfranchisement of all the mormons cormons Mor mons it says now we claim no right to force any aej ones opinions or action on this or any other question yet it still calls the young men disloyal because they would not sign the petition and is using all its blackguard influence to get them discharged from their employment in consequence of their ret refusal its idea of loyalty is acquiescence in all its schemes and deviltry and failure to endorse anything it favors favors is sufficient evidence of disloyalty to the nation the liberty which it shrieks about is freedom to abuse everything mormon but not to disagree with any of its projects A few plotting ug villains want to get hold of the local offices and the money mon of the taxpayers tax payers and the only chaux chance for them to succeed is to procure the disfranchisement of everybody who will not vote tor for them their rapacity is only excelled by their ineffable impudence Pu deuce their memorial is an expression of both and their organ is so mad because three young men em aloyed at the post office declined to support this most damnable scheme that it seeks to injure them personally if this is not trying to ruin where it cannot rule what is it the tribune says we have dropped the bergen ball bail case to take up this matter we made our argument on the bail question which proved beyond dispute that on the tribune principle the bergen bail was excessive but it is of no use to wander off into side issues and follow follo the track of a journalistic serpent that never pursues the straight path in a contro controversy veray both in the bergen case and the case of the three young men the ane tribune representative t active of pothouse pot house loyalty loyally dodges tb the e point in question switches off into a side track tries to divert at from the main subject and throws mud when we have made our point there is no necessity to waste time and space on vain repetitions and inappropriate chatte rings |