| Show ALSE REPORT di d papers in speaking of the dispute about sending bending back too to europe two or three persons persona who were alleged to be polygamist have made the following statement A government agent who has lately been through utah territory and has made a careful study of mormon cormon life dropped into the barge office this mom ing ind and in the gourse course of conversation said its all very well for mormons cormons to talk about polygamy Doly gamy being abolished its a lie zo while ile I 1 was in salt lake city there were between fifty and sixty convictions vict ions for polygamy every mouth month I 1 I 1 we do not know whether or not the alleged government agent is reported correctly but we do know that the assertion that there have been fifty or sixty or say any number of con vie alons tion sper per month for mormon polygamy during the past two or three years is untrue A government agent could scarcely have uttered such a falsehood in the face of the court records which would completely refute the charge from a communication published in the now new over the signature of emigration commissioner 01 0 P 1 beirne which contains a number of misstatements statements we are inclined to the opinion that the inaccuracy in the government agents remarks is due to general es ePs report of them rather than to the agenas actual statement anyhow it to is not true and any man official or otherwise who lends his name to such a libel simply exposes his own mendacity and shows that his word is not entitled to the least respect |
