Show HOME AND FOREIGN SUNDERS SLANDERS THE meeting of business men held in the chamber of commerce rooms room january was wag important and suggestive ge stive the villainous slanders about the people of utah published in the IU illustrated rated american constituted the chief topic the sentiment sent ment against the outrageous libels was unanimous and pronounced there was a striking unanimity in this respect the action respecting the vile publications partook of f the spirit of the meeting and what was proposed will doubtless be carried out completely without entering into an analysis of the motives which have in the main prompted this step no good citizen can fall fail to endorse it no matter as to the incentives which lead to a vindication of truth and justice it is a matter of congratulation when falsehood and wrong are subjected to a bac keet y one of the speakers at the gathering of last night struck a point well worth I 1 consideration mr shearman held that the object of the movement being to prevent the doing of injury by published slanders blander to the material interests of utah it was waa not of much use uee to seek to check such an influence at a distance when it was exerted much more potently at home referring to the policy of hate bate and falsehood pursued by the salt lake tribune Til buns the gentleman related an instance of capital having been kept out of utah by the daily libels perpetrated by that journal he seemed to be endeavoring to m ike the impression that some expression the course of that paper would be in order it did not appear however that the point made by him wis w is taken up and audibly endorsed to any extent this could not be because there them was any doubt as to his being entirely right in what he said every sensible man in an this section of the country knows that his position is correct unfortunately however the number of men who have the courage of conviction which mr shearman appears to possess is exceedingly cee limited thursday january the salt lake times non mormon and liberal struck the same point made by mr shearman we herewith reproduce its article it is all very well for us to resent with indignation the falsehood false hoo Is uttered about utah in the he east it is very well to P protest coteat against the malicious libel that the cormons mormons cormons are preparing tor for a war of extermination at an early day dav it is all very well to pass resolutions in the city council and chamber of commerce for the purpose of reassuring the people in the east that we are not hell bent on rebellion and treason as the illustrated american asserts but bat why should we visit our wrath upon a sensational paper several thousand miles distant when right at home we have a journal that is never so happy as when it can stir up the embers of strife and fan the fires of hatred in our midst what the illustrated ame ican fean avers in a spasm of morbidity that does the daily lannan Tribune maintain in its normal condition and what the former is supposed to retail at second hand that the latter is believed to draw tr fresh ea h f from ro m th the e foun fountain ta in head if the brutal attack in the illustrated american calculated to destroy our credit abroad was not incited in iii the daily a an anan nan tribune office it was certainly inspired there ther and promptly after it had app appeared earod in the pictorial the daily lannan tribune quoted from it all it dared with sp spontaneous e 0 s approval val A and n d yet y e t w we e try to harpoon the minnow and let the whale glide on we chastise the gamin and tolerate the tramp suppose the illustrated american should instead of retracting the lies it published f fortify itself with quotations from the dully dily lannan tribune and reiterate its ita sta st amenta ments what then the least thing that might be expected of a home paper is loyalty to home interests the dail daily v lannan tribune wallows in riot it would rather proclaim to the world that the union pacific headquarters a r ll 11 are to be removed from salt sait i lake k e lri city t y though there be not a shadow of truth in ai it than to give support to the governors official report that life and property are perfectly safe in utah when you condemn fellow citizens begin nearer home january the haie hate inspired sheet referred to by the limes gives another justification for these strictures by speaking thus of the illustrated ammean libels kibele most of the articles as we stated on sunday last are in the main correct however it caps the climax of insult when it says this in our oar private judgment when city council of this city made the fuss fuse about the articles in the american it did not do a very wise thing we do not believe those articles will induce anyone to come here or keep one person away P according to this unsightly wart anthe on the nose of journal journalism lanit not only the he city council but the gentlemen who assembled at the chamber of commerce rooms january to denounce the articles in the illustrated wan as false and slanderous and injurious to the business interests of utah are an aa aggregation of idiotic ignoramus ses it practically states that these business men of utah have have not sufficient sense to understand the causes and influences which net act upon their own prosperity it is a matter for regret that there is such a prevalent dread in non mor imor mon circles of the lash of the local li beller this fear is founded on the fact that those who denounce its infamy are individually subjected to the infernal treatment it accords to the majority of the citizens of utah as a whole gentlemen this is slavery and it is impossible for you to enjoy it to any appreciable extent |