| Show THE EXPOSURE HURTS THEM WITH satanic zeal the active losses bosses of ot the Liberal party have expended their inventive powers in fabricating the most in- in infamous Infamous in infamous famous and damaging damu ging falsehoods about the Mormon people When these products of have been coined they have scattered them abroad with a prodigal hand This has been the plan of campaign from the beginning The phil sophy of the method Is this If the Liberals could cover the Mormon people with the of a bad name they sightly concluded that they could I carry out their nefarious schemes against them with comparative I Ii i f J I impunity Give a man an un- un unsavory unsavory un unsavory savory name however undeserved and he can be abused and trampled upon with impunity by his ene ene- enemies enemies mies roles H He will receive but little aid 10 i comfort or sympathy from the pub pub- public public lic Bo So w with a community y This is the reason why before an election or previous to an appeal to e Congress for special Mormon anti anti y legislation the country is flooded with falsehoods about the Latter day Latter Saints and their religion Hence 1 the recent effort before the Third District Court to prove that the theological system of the Mormon people involved the death penalty upon apostates from the Church or those who disobey the Priesthood The only bloody example of the execution of this alleged penalty was manufactured at the instance of the Liberal anti Mormons anti sy by Martin Wardell Warden an apostate 3 who under oath told toM a trumped up tory story about th the tho mur murder er of Wil WU William William liam Green near Green River Biver in 1862 Judge Anderson AlIder probably against his own inclination an inclination an announced that the murder was dis disproved proved so overwhelming was the evidence in that direction m The or- or organ or organ gan of the Mormon anti Liber al party held to it that the story was true notwithstanding that it was completely annihilated by proof Even ven now that William Green has been discovered as a resident J of Spanish F in the County of 1 Utah adjoin ig this tills a distance of j 65 5 miles fr from m Salt Lake City the Liberal organ still a absurdly wickedly and foolishly sticks to the falsehood as will be seen b by this paragraph in its issue of 1 this morning 1 J J The hunt for Green threatens to be- be be become come as monotonous as the search for 4 Charlie Ross Rosa or Stewarts Stewart's body Ev- Ev Every Every Ev Every ery few days somebody has heard of j this that or the other person being able to tell all about Green and when this that and the other person has been round they dont don't know any any- anything anything anything thing at all r Now seeing that Mr Green is a Mormon anon non Mormon and a liberal but as it appears tin an honorable one the villainy of insisting for insisting for outside political that effect effect that he be was blood blood atoned atoned i in n 1862 must be apparent to everybody with the one part of the average honor manhood or conscience But the reason for the tenacity displayed in adhering to this up trumped-up murder case is plain enough It was the only r sanguinary death penalty incident ZT I J r r- r Ji that coul could be raked Up p being in- in invented in invented ven vented d for the purpose To have this solitary ghost vau vanish sh into thin air by the appearance upon the scene seene pC of the assassinated m mati man n in insubstantial insubstantial substantial material material form lorm after a lapse of 27 years years from the date uC of s the murder is js a great disappoint disappoint- disappointment f ment The Liberal chiefs there there- therefore therefore therefore fore insist that he was carved and entombed by Mormons when he heis heis heis is distant from them but a three three- three hours journey The fact that the they still contend that Mr Green was killed indicates that they heartily and devoutly devoutly wish he had been Doubtless that gentleman congratulates congratulates congratulates himself at not being Ina in a position position position tion to accommodate them x We have already intimated that the idea of reproducing Mr Greens Green's affidavit once in a Ii awhile while as occasion might demand would would be somewhat palatable to us in the lint linn of vindi vindi- vindicating vindicating vindicating cating truth and exposing trumped up Mormon anti anti anti- Mormon political curdling blood bloodcurdling blood curdling This 7 s f vies vier is still ret retained ined and we there there- therefore therefore therefore fore at this point find fl ft nd ud place for the docu document ment In this article as published in the dally daily and weekly semi-weekly of the NEWS Wm Greens Green's affidavit which is page given on n page was repeated bear If Tf the Liberal Mormon anti anti anti- man managers ers had any real doubt about th the identity of Mr William Gree Green of Spanish Fork they would soon make the mud fly in the hu hunt nt for F evidence evidence in that direction notwithstanding notwithstanding standing that the tha murder was Us- Us 0 J 4 rOved proved before his a affidavit davit was made de Mr Creer Greer the notary before whom dt his bis statement statement was made is an au attorney attorney attorney ney and has been a member of th the Territorial Legislature |
