Show THE RABIES AGAIN there to ie at present asig as is well known a great gathering in ogden oden representatives centa senta tivee tives of the west have met to consider the interests inte of this part of the cou country and among the questions quest ione to be sifted gifted Is ia that of at etite hood for the territories further a congressional committee commit teo Is ia soon noon coming west to inquire into the qualifications of abre various territories fr f r the boon of local savor sovereignty these facts account to some extent tor for the recurrence in the columns of the silt bait lake tribune of toe the bitter articles in which that sheet daily assaults an unoffending ding loud lon suffering buffering people the object evidently evi denty being tu imar impress ess the visitors with the foolish idea that the mormons cormons are a criminal class dangerous to the government insincere in all their pretensions aud and not worthy to be trusted as citizens of the great republic or course everybody who haq been following the exploits of that paper during the years knows that there is not an iota of truth in such statements knows that the paper itself does nut not believe them because out of its own mouth it can be shown to be most u scrupulous u it L hau had an end to gain that it has by long years practice succeeded in reducing the art of the truth to an almost per act system and t that hat its bitterness to the people of utah is equaled only by its own depravity but of course the articles referred doare to are not written for the people who live here and who are acquainted quain ted with the real facts U upon pon such auch readers the efert t ff rt would be wasted they are published in order to deceive if possible tredgers who are sup apsell to be easily blinded by mere phraseology in issue the charge is made that mormons cormons are still bract clog cing what once was a per peculiar uliar tenet of their filth faith and united 8 ates atee marhal mar hal hai benton as well as his pred arede a vessor are by implication made p arties to the violation of the law aud and this is done on the authority of what the paper calls a certain pr prominent eminent gentile it used to boa be a certain respectable old woman before this probably being a new device to bide the identity of the individual at the tribune office who is the real inventor of the statement it would seem to be but a poor testimonial t the intelligence of the scribe to suppose that he can entertain the hope of bringing conviction to any of his bis readers by making such serious charges charge on such flimsy authority the fact of the matter is 18 that the people of utah as a class and as individuals divi duals compare favorably morally and otherwise with any people on earth the mormons cormons have nothing to conceal from the view of the world investigation is always carted provided it Is ia lair fair a and od in good faith they were never known to break their promises their history is a narration of the growth of a community whose only safeguard to is and always was truth and righteousness ess and whose sue suc case so far is ia tile the exemplification of the victory of those engaged to in a just juet cause the mormons cormons have failings failing il and L ud have hail had such as other mortals they do not dot prof ss 88 perfection but in vain will any one lork look among them lor for the crimes and criminals with which writers of the tribune class have filled the imagination of man many y not residing in the territory they never did exist statehood immediate or remote or 4 amm noam not at all la is not the question Qu if the abune opposes the admission of tata utah to the union as it of course does that thus is its own business it can be respected res pe 0 t and may secure a decent if it bases its ita opposition on etel grounds if such there be but to burl false acea abiona 8 against the cormons mormons Mor mons to tear open sores scarcely healed t stab the peoples peopled and the Terri torys i in teresta again and again to the heart with daggers poisoned in venova venomous veno moua out 1 falsehood falie bood that is a proceeding a galusi 1 which all must protests protest and which 4 every honest soul ought to feel to 1 trough condemn |