| Show fabricators fabricatore FABRICA TORS AND distorters DIST THE strong anti mormon tone of a large number of the public journals throughout the country shows that a degree of success has attended the efforts of the enemies of liberty in this territory who are C 1 seeking to bring the majority of the citizens of utah down into the slough of political slivery in order to operate the conspiracy it has been necessary as usual for the plotters to screen themselves behind it the be refuge of lies hence the investigation ti begun and conducted by the liberal party in the third district court the wires have been used asan as an auxiliary to spread throughout the country ous fabrications I 1 interwoven with distorted facts about mormon disloyalty A good many newspapers are receiving these tremendous statements as being true as gospel and are commenting accordingly public prejudice is thus created and congress prepared for the usual clamor for mor especial legislation against the majority of f the people of this fair territory the plot is indeed most lu infamous famous and the labor of stemming the torrent of falser rood under which it is carried is a task of mammoth proportions it will be seen by the dispatches that president woodruff has expressed himself on the situation and in I 1 a the opening paragraph strikes the key note of the whole conspiracy the entire agitation is political a part of the proceedings being designed for home consumption and the remainder for foi congress T the I 1 i e most beneficent phases of the church are twisted into the appearance of obstructions of the law of the land the system established among the saints for the settlement of biffi gurties among themselves has frequently been commented upon by non cormons mormons with admiration as by its ite operations disputes without number have been amicably settled without expense to the principals it is a simple process of arbitration in which the arbitrators receive no DO remuneration performing their duties as a labor of love among the functions of bishops 7 courts and high councils is the preservation er of peace among the people as well as to enable thena to avoid litigation which is frequently ruinous and always per to one or other if not all of the principals the only penalty imposed by these them courts Is mellow ship or excommunication although the right of the people to settle their own differences cannot be constitutionally cons tUu tio nally questioned an effort has b been made during the instituted by the liberal bosses in the third district court to show that the church by inculcating we this excellent feature are sm engaged 1 III 4 e 1 obstructing the laws the insinuation is absolutely absurd on its face but this does not deter active unscrupulous politicians from distorts distort ing it into an evidence of disloyalty f the liberal prosecutors have sought bought to make it appear that the church has obstructed the operation of the laws because the people acted in concert in testing statutes they believed to he be unconstitutional in some of their bearings and which were outrageously a administered this obstructive aspect is sought to be given to a defense fund that was created by donation the laws in point and their administration were of such a character that testing their merits in the superior courts was necessarily expensive and could not well be met by private individuals placed in jeopardy by what right does anyone find fault with the friends of chope assailed tor for aiding them under the circumstances doubtless it would have suited mr r dickson the gentleman who the other day placed this obstructive construction on the defense fund for the victims of his segregation theory to have remained in prison instead of being liberated from their illegal incarceration by a decree of the supreme court of the united states the defense fund was used not to defeat the law W but to test it and to legally smash the extrajudicial extra judicial in dieb practiced under it the liberal bosses can make what they please out of the defense fund point mint A showing can be made on tile the other side aide and we have the facts to enable us to present it in its true light should necessity demand |
