| Show THE illustrated AMERICAN AGAIN THE american cannot retire g gracefully from tho the attack it has made upon a we cormons mormons Mor mons and in which it lies has been so signally biscom fitted after fter the complete refutation of its badly made collection of old stories band and its thinly disguised effort to make teem the ef fusions of an old mor aou a might be expected that common prudence would have suggested on the subject and when to this was added the communications from he leading federal officials of utah and the commercial and financial arganza organza irions of this city it would seem tb bibat nothing further was required to prove the blunder into folco wolco the ayi had fallen but the amest issue of that paper contains an glorifying glorify ing its own shame and waving a blagof flag of victory as am though it had bad accomplished som thing wonderful and had been endorsed instead af pf of sat eat dowa upon and spanked tor for lying lyllye but bat here IV is what the shameless ed editor has to set forth as the result of the and the tha counting of the JV we have proved that the cormons mormons hd no intention of abandoning polygamy poly 9 am 1 henc henceforth e forch the practice polygamy wi will cease we have proved that the mormons cormons are were full fuh of bellicose bellio talk henceforth they 6 are likely to show a meekness of spirit irit un unprecedented muted in their history i we e have prove that the authority of the he church was greater with mormon settlers wan that of the united states vil the power rf of the apostles siv considerably weakened i 1 we have proved that the mormon eau haugo was hopelessly injured by the sour eiju murderous tone of he 6 mormon op press I 1 in salt lake cit city jor 0 or IT b I 1 cpr the editors of its organs will J e am mod ion 11 L everybody who has wd paid attention i 0 the controversy knows that pe the damman american has done nothing liate vOir in the directions stated ou on ih hoc cd dattary fttie most indubitable proofs proof bab been furnished furnis bed thatis was wrong in ia every evira point it assumed i 1 1 positive pos ItIe that in pretend ing teat its articles were written by inthe the oldest Mor mormon raon in the rocky thi simply lied it was demonstrated that all the bellicose talk wig was the language of the Dust illustrated rated american Ame noan jurod for purposes with financial eldir it was proven beyond doubt that that paper was as densely ignorant of the he mormon lP church and the mormon 1 1 Applit apostles les as it was anxious to make money by revamping old and ww out anti mormon falsehoods it gave as portraits of mormon apostles apostle the p coures of some me who never were apostles ap oatlee and one ait least of whom was not even a gembee i of the f mormon 11 church the same ignorance was exhibited in its clippings from utah newspaper Q a liberal eliberal 11 and antl mormon IJ journal being quoted as a mormon organ at salt lake the logic displayed by the american 4 is equal to its understanding of the subject the mormons cormons have no intention of abandoning polygamy therefore henceforth the practice of polygamy will cease very eon con clu elusive sive is it not the same sort of runs through all the bolst boasts lugs in which that paper indulges i the work which the illustrated amerian Imerio ax jaunts vaunts so go much has polished nothing except that it has netted the publishers a few paltry dimes and proven them to be bai without conscience and without honor it is a matter of regret that a paper containing so many exhibitions of ar merit should prostitute its pages to an infamous purpose as ad was waa exhibited in its senseless assault upon the cormons mormons Mor mons 11 and that the person entrusted with ahe the di pages should be time so profoundly ignorant and so thoroughly unscrupulous as ills his anti mormon have proven him t to be common sense aad common prudence should suggest to him the pro propriety Kiety of ceasing to talk on a subject that he knows know nothing about and kAyo keeping plug abill tul after being so thoroughly exposed |
