Show BE THESE MISTAKES ar I 1 an explanation be necessary for making reference to statements which during the last few day have had space apace in the columns of the anti mor imor won mon organ published in thle this city it to in that occasions occasions arise when it appears necessary to defend the innocent ahe 0 attacks oaf 0 f un scrupulous defamer defamers def amers to do this Is i one of the functions of the NEWS this I 1 aft the reason why by in the first first place we denoun denounced cled the use by 0 W powers at chicago for political pur poes sot lot the she bishop west ad 10 drass i which originated with the organ of the tuscarora I 1 liberal dova dem borow I 1 the information reg arAng the UBA bod of chii be bae forgery by mr powers Po Were ahmei bame over the wires this thie brought his hie organ toto into the subject it author of the vile slander it rises in rage at the expose f of the inwardness of the matter which ha bas app appeared ered in this journal its of bf this ar are as ae onAte Ji logIcal I 1 and d incongruous as usual we lay this exertion axer assertion tion down as aa a and alu proceed to prove it the anti 0 organ the sot Ho called sermon was published in the he tribune more than eight years agol ago there wa romar remarkable kabe about it iff except its close similarity to a thousand mormon sermons tl ti at have been delivered in n t his territory so close was the il similarity 1 that the tribune beli believed eod it vas as a ral J ad address dresti and so bubli published ched it and immediately mine dia telly corrected the error as soon as it ascertained that it had been imposed I 1 upon we will reproduces reproduce the vile forgery that would be sufficient that it la Is not like anything in to faven on earth ar under it we gwilli will however hoever reserve that point jor for athe there waft net na possibility for sty any intelligent person residing here to have been de deceived delved by a subterfuge the be clumsiness af which abi ch was only surp aa r parsed aked by its baseness base neBB 1 1 ahe liberal tuscarora demo crnac artto organ makes an asier assertion aser tion tian that ha hae had no parallel for hypocritical I 1 effrontery except iti bec ba when 0 W rowers powers in the mouree course of one of hib bib speeches epee chee turns up his eyes with an air of sanctity and quotes the scripture this 1 1 1 1 i rhenita had bad been trying abr twelve or fourteen previous to catch the in a mistake of this kind it ties has been bee trying through eight years since to do the frame thing but this is thel the on only instance on record read rd 11 i thia to is all wrong g we have nota laken t jp takee of 0 our fanatical orty kry wk what W we babej objected to and still contend agai against dit is the gross groes wrongs it commits on purpose some seme excuse is admissible ad for blunders but none for acts which are the outgrowth of malice we here benignly forgive our temporary oo fur for all the mistakes it has made and express our regrets for the injury it has bas inflicted upon itself by the many wilful wrongs it has perpetrated when in yesterdays issue we reproduced a correspondence from a gentile in which the writer denounced the manner in which our distorted and misrepresented mormon nl sermons delivered in the tabernacle our object was not to exhibit mistakes in that line it was simply to show what it has done for many years wilfully wickedly and on purl pur ose no mir mistake stake about abou tIt it at all we have made no complaint whatever at out now we will give a little more non t mormon testimony in relation to what our contentious calls mistakes of which it claims tu to be spotlessly fre efrom makin making 4 except I 1 in ri one notorious instance this to is from the salt like lake runes gentile of about a year and a balf ago 1 I 1 1 1 we W are heartily heart fly ashamed of a species of journalism 0 not to be found outside of sa salt it lake city ty that that revels ravers in the moat infamous outrageous and blasphemous trav t ea vestry try in ro reports of certain religions worship we are oha mahamed POO of a species of journalism thet I 1 ignores ff 3 r e a the differ difference enoe between a devoti devotional n a 1 service vice to bod chod and a political oli mass meeting we are ed of it because it is ia calculated to adv advertise ertist us broadcast go as a horde of barbarians without sense of honor bonor decency or reverence when occasion requires it the times ames does not hesitate to otrice the most powerful blows at the mormon hierarchy arid and they are the moie more effective because thoy they fall direct betit but it would ho bo more think of invading invading the sanctum of the people with couf langhage I 1 sport e crating the graves of its dearest friends it takes a human jackal to do that we would not even quote in order to show the total depravity of langaas Lan naas nans part pact of the report printed therein u upon ohp tabernacle sol sei vice printed lilt last nun sunday d 1 L 1 I is by all odds the most coni contemptible orn pt i b piece of journalism aver ever gerpe perpetrated grated in america Amerl cg I 1 of course pat lannan knows yio po better betler from abaer a boeer bar and a bucher block to the position afan of an editor does oot cot necessarily elevate ones morals or sense ot of decency beyond that he be is in distress tae ite has built up his I 1 organ on oil venom bonom and when that fails of effect as it la el ely does the circumstances having hanged changed he ascribes that fail failure tire toia to alack a lack ja W malignity and whoops tip lip the boys to such vile base practices I 1 I 1 i the wonder vonder is i bat hannans Lan nana nans ansis anais did not rebel against this degradation of a newspaper this prostitution of a power powder this defamation ot of a city ford for shi shame iniel tire nonplussed nonplus sed mornion mormon sermon and aad distorter ff prins this pai amut ut I 1 i Ate alii the NEWS repeats the assertion thai iia t this t is address wag was circulated all over states and especially in the where numbers of Mor mormon riLon mis were laboring laborin gand and that it so no inflamed the minds yf of i the af lewis aou county rity tem ten n chotin that county where here fi 41 nun number of badera eldera were were proper ng to old vices an armed and masked mob bro broke e into the ho bouse I 1 and cried cheuy N fourd ts e 0 no The Tha U NEws lifts has ab nb t and never eve lifter had d t the he slightest evidence that one man in jhb house had ever seen the tribune this thin last quotation embodies embody ea another mistake M that red bed hot address was handed about in the locality where the massacre occurred and wherever the elders betit they were confronted with it it was specially used and circulated by a baptist preacher named vandever of howen weld wald lewis county tennissee he read it to the people and made it a text for his bis anti mormon sermons A request was sent to vandever by john H gibbs one of the victims of the massacre and william H jones a survivor of the tragedy now living in this territory but so far as known the rabid baptist paid no attention to the solicitation for him to correct the in justice ta t which he had been a party ol to is an a from W H jones published shortly after the nisse massacre acre occurred 1 1 this villainous slanderous was waa circulated over the countr conn try v parson vandever worked up prejudice F udice against us in that section by giving VI ng it the I 1 red bed hot address wi wide e pub publicity I 1 eat and d b by hits his pretended credence crede to the t I 1 e li falsehood e oz cawing g great ebol excitement out elder alder gibbs and I 1 sent sant by mall mail to vandever an exposure of the address in question but he be budnot cUd not show aito it to anybody that we know of this proves thai th the news has harshad baa evl lauce of the circulation of the west weist address in the neighborhood where the tha mussa massacre ore occurred we will give one more sample of the inlo takes of our our readers aders will agree that it is a pe peculiar culla one ile he says the editor of this paper stated in a committee in minneapolis that if this the mormons cormons had not been afraid to attack him he would have been killed because of his opposition to them that is ia alto false la in reply to an insolent assertion by one of the mormons cormons present in that committee that the fact that the editor of this paper was alive was waa a proof ot of mornion mormon forbearance he did say you would have killed me long ago if you had fiad thought it worth the trouble you thought it would cost you morie more eventually than it was wa worth this li is singular reasoning exhibiting the fact that the editor of our innocent to is mu burh b more adept at feathery painting than journalistic polemics he denies the truth ful of a state statement meat and concludes by proving its correctness fot instance he denies that he be 1 stated in a committee in that if the mormons cormons had not been afraid tol to attack him he would have been killed because of his bis opposition to rhem rhenia he immediately admits saying tafe in committee you would have killed toe me long ago ago if you had thought it worth the trouble le yon thought it would cost you more eventually than it was worth ay if there thare is ady any difference between betteen the sta statement which te fis denied and that which is admitted it is so slight as not to be visible to the naked eye when the editor asserted that there theft evet ever hike has been any to kill him 1 on the part pact of the people he has hag so ohn often andi and so outrageously mallit maligned ned he knew he web was guilty or of a tribune mistake chith means something wil fully buhy and designedly done for la a purpose i j |