Show A M US OF 1 daal 1 chicago inter ocean and some other papers are dilating upon the story credited to the washington republican but told originally fa the pittsburg dispatch that a mormon lobbyist offered a newspaper correspondent spon dent it he would use his paper to oppose the edmunds bill the inter oman ocean thinks it is hardly to be presumed that the representative in washington of any important newspaper would be bribed in so shameless and palpable a manner but cites the alleged occurrence as showing to what extremes the mormons cormons are prepared to go in the furtherance and protection of their nefarious schemes of course no one acquainted with the ordinary newspaper correspondent would believe for a moment that he be would take money for supporting or opposing any public measure or political movement perish the thought such men mea do not work for funds but for glory glary they never write up or write down anything but from the purest of motives they never put into themo the mouth uthol of a person aberson interviewed anything he did not utter nor clothe an innocent fact with le the flaunting garb of colored and frilled and feathered exaggeration and fiction cash is no more inducement to them than water straight and a paltry would not influence one of them as much as ab a smile and what horrible depravity is exhibited in an attempt to procure a newspaper argument against a bill la ba 01 reduced trod in Oon congress gress such a ne arious scheme is enough to give a newspaper new man the horrors no wonder the inter ocean goes into connia eions over the outrage tile mor mons mona I 1 ought to be annihilated witti without out jud judge e or jury or benefit of clergy for darfus daring to attempt such a thing as to oppose the edmunds bill when any political quack prepares a dose for them designed to kill ur or cure they havens have ne right to do an anything thing but bat sit down silently 0 open en thear their bouttis and swallow the well medicine clue to protest or induce a newspaper new sparer to protest against the nostrum is a capital crime the wickedness of the mormons cormons Mor mons who are said to defy existing laws I 1 seems to be aggravated in the eyes of tho the inter ocean by their setting themselves to defeat attempts adnew at new legislation of course the inter ocean never did such a thing as that an attempt to defeat new legislation of any bindis kind is worse than treason the columns of a chicago paper never contain anything by way ot of opposition to a bill even if ft is a democratic scheme or an alleged job or a part izan movement or a political expedient and an attempt to induce a newspaper correspondent to oppose it would show to what extremes wicked people are prepared to go in the furtherance and protection of their nefarious schemes what a lot of trash respectable journals nals will print when tuey they touch on anything relating to the mormons cormons Mor mons tile the story about the correspondent being offered money was made out of whole cloth by an obscure person named murray ominous cognomen who wrote that slush to the pittsburg dispatch a paper aper without national influence anta and a writer whose services would not be worth five cents to the mormons cormons Mor mons eyen even if they were running 9 around with baits to catch innocent gudgeons hudgeons gud geons ot at reporters it was simply a lie told by the inventor for the purpose of creating for himself a little fictitious importance something new of course among ambitious knights of the faber but supposing that the mormons cormons Mor mons were just bursting all over with over gorged money pockets as they are popularly popular V supposed to be and are ready anil ana anxious to cram a congressman with greenbacks green backs or load up a news newspaper scribe with glittering coin newspaper a and that gaper at neither the legislator nor the writer is accessible to the influence of mormon cash facts equally demonstrable where is tire tile nefarious iniquity of trying to induce a man or a newspaper to oppose a arc project for any purpose Is a bill in congress a sacred and unassailable thing or are we to understand that it is only and mormon mermon measures that must not be opposed and only who must not essay to defeat attempts at inimical legislation we challenge the proof of any mormon morman effort to bribe a member of congress or to corrupt such an im maculate purist as a newspaper correspondent it cannot be produced it is simply talk of the most description and we assert the right of at every mormon by tongue arid and bertand pen per and tand by influencing others to use those wea weapons ons to oppose any measure in congress or elsewhere that appears wrong to him or trenches upon his rights as a citizen or from which he dissents at as a matter of public policy and any paper that attempts to make such conduct criminal or improper exhibits symptoms of lunacy or inebriety the edmunds bill was a monstrosity when it was born it has been en upon until it is now a deformed and unnatural enormity a disgrace to its manipulators and an outrage upon legislation but even if it is the fairest product that wise statesmanship could devise it is the right of any catl oppose it id and ancl lawfully induce others to oppose it if he has reasons for dissent I 1 whether he be mormon or gentile I 1 christian or infidel int idel wicked lobbyist or incorruptible newspaper correspondent |