Show A SHAMEFUL SLANDER foit foil pure unadulterated the chief organ of the aati I 1 mormon i political conspirators published in this city breaks the record of any other perfidious sheet ever printed and cir cu our usual policy is to let it severely alone allowing it to revel u 4 molested in congenial filth and vituperation pe ration occasionally however how everit it appears necessary to give it a scintillation of dignity by noticing some of its flagrant falsehoods when this thas appears to be needful the task is approached approach led with no small degree of disgust and it seems as it if it should be done in an apo loretic spirit toward our readers the sheet now referred to in its issue of this morning jan gin makes elaborate mention of the burning of the baptist school house yesterday morning asserting flatly ft itcy that it was the result of following upon this statement it says this tire fire brings to mind the fact that most ol 01 the robberies jobb eries and fires of the last few weeks have berin been perpetrated and occurred on property the baptist school building has bas been repeatedly broken into and school paraphernalia na stolen or injured independence hall lias suffered petty thieves attempted to burglarize bursts store while husbands grocery was entered and goods stolen one of noble wood com banys handsome glass windows was broken and a hat boolen all these proprietors are gentiles the bottling property and the school house bouse belon belonged sed to Gent gentiles ilet and is if no n telling how long it will be before other gentile buildings especially educational ones will disappear in the flames and smoke it behooves owners and trustees to see that their insurances su are coverall cover all possible losses very likely after two or three more conflagrations the insurance men will feel like putting ou on a patrol themselves or making such representations lations stole to the city council as will compel them to p oberly protect local property it is p pretty etty well understood that these outrages are committed by mormon Modo csor hoodlums Then follows assertions to the effect that it s in accordance with imor mormon teaching and practice to prey ref upon the gentiles and these aspersions are uttered aaili l a people whose honesty is proverbial and who have been repeal ol the victims of robbery and find and the most inhuman indignities that could be heaped upon any community to come down to the facts however of the lawless acts of the last jew few weeks we eks we shall see how bow far they sustain such charges on the same night on which noble wood cos window was broken and a bat stolen windows iu in the residences of mr don carlos young and maharry mr harry culmer both mormons cormons Mor mons 7 were similarly treated on the night of the burglary of the stores of mr husband ana mr durst and of independence hall the houses houes of mr john clark and mrs perry both the latter are cormons mormons Mor monis mons were broken into and robbed A short time since the house of mrs wells I 1 in the twelfth ward was en thred and robbed and last night the store 01 mrs george neal near the baptist church was emr burglarized both these ladles ladies are cormons mormons Mor mons ll 11 thus the of the assertion that atie afie victims vic tiuis of recent lawless depredations are gentiles is seen sen at a glance lance the the next point is the identity of the de predators the conscienceless scribe who charged tee acts complained of to 45 cormons mormons Mor mons and the result of mormon teachings must have known that his statements were false when he made them the guilty parties in a number of instances having been arrested and punished the facts having appeared in the local papers as well as being matters of record in the police court the parties who robbed the store of mr husband were john leadford an importation imp orIton from leadville col wm win davis davia late from denver willie paddock son SOB of mrs paddock of notorious anti mormon repute the same saine parties in the police court pleaded guilty to commit committing tYng ane robbery ery at aude independence hall the burglary of mrs MM neals sto store was committed by members of ane t e same gate garig amons among them being dan henry and arthur curtis no now v un 1 der arrest nelt neither herot ot them belonging to mormon families p it was Ws the same set of young thieves who committed most if not all of the crimes mentioned the gang is well known to the police they are so far us as can bo bi learned as follows wm win davis davia john leadford norton urtis curtis arthur curtis willie paddock william ia m adams dan henry ric Ki hard chanil B bubbles b aud and probably a few others the dirix firs i four named aae the leaders of the pang gang and the others ea cluster aster around thew them is as followers the statement that they are mormons cormons Mor mons Is utterly false it is well known that the boca brewery gos cos bottling build log g has been on account of it its being vacant a rendezvous for tills guest ot of depraved young criminals and their asso associates chates and there is good reason for Oe believing lieving on that ground that it was set on fire are by them either aither accidentally or intentionally As Asto the baptist school schoolhouse ho use took fire it Is not known it may have deen incendiary or it may not there js jo little room tor doubt that i the tire first broke owin the interior marwil lard burton a thoroughly reliable gen thamah who was wait among the first to observe the flames declares that when he observed them they were breaking through the window at tate south end of afie the building the point where we are informed the flue is to loi bated but if it were incendiary and not the resift of an ordinary origin to charge it upon the mormons cormons Mor mons is extremely iely villainous and without the shadow of evidence or excuse As well might it be charged that the late lire fire the largest in five years by ter tera elgrove Sa geow I 1 eow davis ander soa son brothers james dwyer and others all cormons mormons Mor mons were the losers was tuc the result of a A gentile agentive conspiracy the ne intimation that the tire was as the work ork of mormon incendiaries excelled in villainy by the assertion that destruction of gentile property is considered legitimate and in accord with mormon sentiment aud that murder robbery and pillage become a celestial virtue under me cover of thus faith h the lord if mi vuc of linel and slander io ia to woi k up b and collais tor for the sect hah tui bul hired tl a loss to which any ur or society way may be it is a most vile and hauie ful method to resort to the writer of the article must be a mean contemptible and scurvy ruffian and no epithet would be too strong to a apply to him even the proprietors and any sly editors of the tribune ought to be ashamed of such a thoroughly inexcusable effusion and of the creature that wrote it if it had not been for Alor mormon effort the baptist church would have met the same fate as the school boutie and in saving the property a mormon firt jilt t received pal painful naul injury there is nut a respectable Ge gentile Mile tu in the city who is not satisfied that charges like th which the tribune seems most to delight are false to the very core and a Isham efat fai slander both both upon the cormons mormons Mor mons and their creed |