| Show MORE PROOFS AND DEAD ISSUES IT is not worth while to follow the mendacious tribune through another column and a half of stale fiction seasoned with here and there a fact half told it his is of no use the truth remains that the failing concern has injured the territory and ana still seeks to injure it by its defamation of the majority of the citizens and that it never retracts a falsehood but seeks to justify itself by telling more or by recriminations upon those who expose its infamy only one or two things in its ito of this morning are worthy of notice its ite perversions of history are mere repetitions of former fabrications with which the salt lake public are familiar one item we will refer to is this in attempting to prove that clan an apostle ordered the chief of police to take a prisoner from the united states marshal the tribune says silt it was told by a man who was then and is in now high in the mormon council to J 0 young and by J 0 young to us ly the simplicity with which the writer of these frequent improbable stories presents as proofs beyond dispute a rumor started by some unnamed person is ludicrous in the ext erne eme sometimes tt it is Is a reliable gentleman next it Is a truthful old woman then it is a person of respectability respect abill ty now it is a man high in the mormon cancil oi cun uncil cil whatever that may mean what is the mormon council anyhow As for the person who the tribune says told the story to the editor the very fact that the tale came from him if it were a fact would be sufficient to settle its value but it is exceedingly doubtful if even beever he ever told any such a stupid yarn the tribune is always unfortunate when it attempts to cite authority for its reckless assertions and its lack of sense as to th the value of evidence makes it a laughingstock among all legal and logical minds 11 somebody said so and the story was brought to us and that proves it is true Is not that a firm foundation on which to build up a theory or to rear a superstructure of conclusive deduction of course the gang that controlled murray approve of the course which wet cost him his office for it was waa what they dictated all the same it was not only infamous but foolish it was a terrible tr blunder as well as a piece of malignant wickedness the tribune virtually admits that his veto of the appropriation bill was in retaliation upon the legislature because it says gays that body had insulted him and he be stood upon his hia dignity the insult was omitting to bend to his big autocratic die dac tation a tribune echo celio and his hie revenge did not affect the legislature as a body but did affect the whole territory which was left without a dollar to meet its expenses it killed murra murray officially the territory managed pretty well with the help of some patriotic citizens and having got rid of murray it was that much better off but the wrong intended was just as vile and the tribune gang that lured the governor to his ruin are branded with their part of the shame As to the guns fired in the streets during the liberal parade it to is useless for the tribune to continue its ito denials for nearly the whole town knows about the but its that no such firing bring was done is as delicious as its conclusive evidence about the chief of police any one the may wish to send may see some toy guns made of wood and this will prove that the scott did not fire any guns at the parade a year ago quod erat more tribune logic more reasoning like ike a philosopher erl would it not be better for the territory and safer for the tribune to abandon this continual raking up of old issues and defamation of the mormons cormons Mor mons with its ite absurd citation of groundless ground leae rumors as authority for its hobgoblin and penny dreadful stories atones aud and make the present prosperity and future glory of utah the themes of its writers its rejoinder may be why does the NEWS still harp upon these them old strings to which we would reply repin it is done in simple self defence we do not notice a tithe of the tribunes misrepresentations but when it takes ad vantage advantage of our silence becomes mure more than commonly mendacious and construes that silence into in its libels we meet it squarely and confront it with facts but we never borrow its methods by misstating its position nor fall into its loose logic or its low scurrility assure As sure as the progress of the times dead issues will have to be burlet buried and old hates with them and papers that seek to carry them along will go speedily into the same game grave |
