| Show THE RACKET SHOULD BE STOPPED WE find it necessary to make a few closing remarks in the controversy that haa beau provoked by the tribune in reference to the attacks made upon the mormon people through the illustrated american the falsity of the statements make in that magazine has been made sufficiently clear by the resolutions of the federal officials official fl the municipal authorities and the leading financial and commercial men and organizations inthis in this city and the complete refutation contained in president woodruff communication to that magazine is entirely sufficient on that head A prominent point raised during the movement against the wrong attempted by the eastern magazine was the fact that while so much excitement was aroused by the utterances of a paper at a distance something ought to be done in reference to viler attacks of the same kind from a paper published in this city which partially at least openly endorsed the lies of its eastern echo it was agreed by jew gentile and cl mormon in conversation on the subject that of the two evils the local loael libeler was the greater also that much of the rubbish published by the illustrated american was culled from the salt lake jaune of course me latter sheet flew into a rage abused everybody right and left who intimated that it had bad ever said or done anything to bring about a collision here or to injure the majority of the people of this territory when proofs of its perfidy were brought forward in the shape of articles and para graphs from its own columns its wrath and blackguardism blackguard lem knew no bounds and with its accustomed logic it slid off upon other issues and at the same time offered so called arguments which disproved its own assertions the funniest part of its whole defence appeared on saturday when it published a letter from an ex marshal which was in effect a denial of some of its own assertions and direct evidence that what we bad stated was correct the facts it has developed in attempting to establish the reverse of those facts are these through its influence troops were brought here and quartered in this city under the pre tence that the mormons cormons Mor mons were ready to fight when there was not the slightest reason for their presence and not the remotest intention of any outbreak that the occasion which was made a pretext for this deception of the united states was the attempt by the chief of police to arrest a 9 persan against whom a complaint for attempt to murder had bad been duly sworn to and on whom it was the duty of that officer to serve the warrant of a competent court that the united states marshal who had no warrant held the defendant and refused to surrender him to the police or to the court that had issued the warrant although the proceedings under which the chief of police acted were in the course of laithe tribune pretended that an apostle had ordered I the chief of police to take the prisoner from the united states marshal but it has bas been proved that the latter faa prevented the arrest of the defendant by the officer holding the warrant and his appearance before the court that issued it that the story about an apostle issuing that absurd and unnecessary I order was one of those frequent tribune stories to the effect that some unnamed and unknown person is said to have told another person who told it to some one else and so it reached the tribune and all this rubbish is cited as an excuse for the action of the governor urged by the tribune to deceive the president into sending troops herel here the whole attempt to raise an excitement was an absurd rd piece of despicable humbug inato ad of the chief of police attempting to take a prisoner from the united states marshal the marshal by his bis own confession prevented the police from serving a legal warrant from a competent court the tribune wanted mart martial ilal law in the territory and urged governor murray into the stupid course which paved the way to his official death that and vetoing the appropriation bill in which he was again influenced by the tribune gang were the reasons for his removal from office the bogus bishop west letter was another piece of tribune infamy and humbug designed with similar intent it failed like other similar impositions from the same source but these diabolical abo lical efforts of that paper have furnished the fuel by which the illustrated american and the papers which have copied its inflammable articles have sought to make new fires bres of prejudice and renewed assaults against the mormon ilor people and every attempt made by the thetas cwb muneto une to turn public attention from these facts only serves to establish their truth while the rage of that paper and its actual dis proofs of its own rash assertions sert ions are equally ludicrous and ex pose the deplorable mental condition of the abusive if not inebriated Inebriate a writer one more allusion to his style of argument and we have done with it As proofs that the guns gu tie were not fired in the streets during the liberal parade a year ago it says the scott were all kindly young gentlemen and thought of possible bloodshed never entered their minds mindel 11 wonderful logic proof positive who has said odd the were not as gentle as kittens if they areas are as kindly even as their muddled eulogist how will that disprove the fact witnessed by hundreds of people of all classes that guns were fired in the streets of this city by Ll liberal berall pa a year age it is quite likely that the company called the denhalter Den balter rifles and that now in process of formation to be called the dyer rifles may be composed of kindly young gentlemen who have no thought of bloodshed but would firing off their rifles in the streets be lawful and would nob the goor goore e that runs his quill in the tribune squawk for government troops again if a mormon rifle company should be formed in this city the truth is there aver was occasion for federal soldiers to be sent to utah and the proofs are ample that on every occasion when they have been dispatched here wilful lying caused the movement mormon rebellion mormon treason imor mormon diss affection toward the govern ment are the shams and frauds as everybody knows who has raised these bogus cries whether he be judge or governor preacher or publisher newspaper scribe or any other scoundrel who has sought to make capital of any sort out of such falsehoods 0 utah today to hi at peace an effort to is being made to barmo harmonize Dize elements that have been heretofore conflicting there are some heterogeneous human particles that do not want unity but desire to continue old antagonisms and promote new ferments it is for the interest of society in this territory to sit down upon them let the living present be the topic of the times let conservative people of all shades of opinion combine to stop the schemes ani and arrest the sway of the rabid cormons mormons eaters and the persistent strife breeders bleeders bre eders and to establish iu in our cities and towns and through ut hit the territory stable government with economy and honesty morality and good order and that thai liberty which all citizens should enjoy who pay due respect to the law and do not infringe upon the rights of others |
