Show MUDDLED AND mendacious no better evidence of a failing cause cauce could be offered than the editorial columns of the liberal organ for the past few days the confusion of mind of its scribes is also pitiably mi manifest ft their long drawn sentences are self contradictory and painfully suggestive of the mental imbecility of the writers A juvenile who would compose such paragraphs as appear in the leading tribune articles of today would be subject to ob censure insure in any well conducted common school take the following for example again liberals believe that men who believe and who have subscribed to that belief that certain other oiher mortals nota not a bit superior intellectually or morally or any other way have the power to receive daily revelations from almighty god and after they it hive i ve subscribed to lo their belief to obey those men mein they are not good citizens they are not 1101 citizens at sill nil of the republic they believe that men who have subscribed to the belief that polygamy to is a div ne institution and when the wives and daughters of a people believe that in order to insure exall aaion in the presence of god and the lamb they should be married or sealed scaled 0 to o an upright and faithful man ahn this belief is coupled with theother the other elief belief that they are bound to obey those mn and when they have agreed to implicitly obey vt ahe hemen men who they believe receive daily revelations ia in all things temporal as well as spiritual abey cannot be good citizens they cannot be alti citizens zens at oil all after all this muddle the pher and literate litterateur ur who to Is responsible for it adds that is the firm belief of the liberals and it will continue to be their belief etc of cour course he does not mean what he says baya T the I 1 e liberals do abt believe the stuff which he in the cormons mormons Mor mons believe and for believing which he be would have them franchised disfranchised dis neither have the Mormon Mor mons sIl agreed to the other belief which he kindly manufactures fac tures for them but if it were true that all he invents were part ot of their belief we fall to see oft how it would prove they are not all bevery every person born in the united states is a citizen thereof 1 no matter what may be his belief or unbelief and all aliens lawfully naturalized are also citizens notwithstanding their religious or other idiosyncrasies if the liberals firmly believe and will continue to believe all the nonsense which their champion and exponent claims for them or entertain the notion that the mormons Mor mons I believe it all we are sorry for their state of mind we are rather inclined to think that the stuff contained in the we have quoted above to is the product of a brain disordered by the fumes of alcohol or opium for all that we would not take the ground that its author cannot be a citizen at all or that he should be franchised disfranchised dis the utmost we would suggest would be gentle restraint and kind treatment for am awhile litile on the bench at provo seriously is it not dot about time that this nonsense and folly about mormon chiefs claiming a divine right to direct men how to vote ap and the mormon Mor mow people greeting agreeing t to implicitly obey were put a step to there is no truth in it and there is in no common decency in the dally daily repetition of these tribune falsehoods which are an insult to men and women whose lives and abilities would suffer nothing by the closest comparison with those of their defamed defamers def defa amers mem it if the few respectable gentiles who still cling to the liberal faction are not yet tired of its mission and its methods they roust must surely be ashamed of its muddled and mendacious advocate and autocrat |