Show HOW IT LOVES A LIE I 1 T A A sheet published in this city aud and which will be sufficiently described without Wit houi being named when we say chii its platform is hate its creed to is bitterness and its chief colef object in living to in to arouse inflame and maintain a feeling of hostility against the mor mon ban baa been lately publishing for sinister purposes of its own various and untruthful kate statements ments concerning the work of the latter day flaunts elders in the southern states this morning it returns to the charge agail with what it calls a special from richmond va the story which no sane person believes to have been a ceceal cec lal 11 at all but which was doubtless clipped from the local columns oi 01 some obscure southern paper and reproduced as fresh news begins with an account of the experiences 1 of an organized zed band of mormons under the danl ead of elder W 0 ellis of salt bait lake city how much truth there 16 in this part of the story may be judged from the fact that there is no buee elder in virginia or in the southern states at all then we aa arb favored with a glimpse of the bame life of another of the mie fioL arles a ah ln elder campbell who said that his father bad married several slaters find and that he himself lived in a house bourse with his bis fathers father Is wives fr eight bars before he be knew which of the women was wais his mother r 11 here again the account la Is miserably deficient in me tt important essential of truth there is no elder campbell 1 1 belon belonging gitig to thia church in that part of the country or in the at all continuing its romancing the paper goes oes OL there is no doubt that the C cormons mormons armons at work here are ar in olya amy indeed they do not best befit tate ate to state as much openly open lj furthermore other mormons are at work in stafford and probably some om other sections of this state etc eto etc to all of which it is simply beo esry to say eay that if the otter other el ders aers and their teachings and dr ivings are to as mythical as elder W 0 elite bills of salt lake city and elder camp bell who had to wait eight years to find out who was his mother the only prominent points i i i the whole yarn there is ample of the avidity with which our local grasps its ita scissors ecio scip sore sors indeed it Is only remarkable that a story having so GO many falsehoods false hooda to commend it should have had bad to be crowded out of Us its de deserved serveLl place on that papers editorial page |