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Show What Must The Ghost Of Ananias Think? ON Saturday night last a young merchant of this city was killed and his place robbed by some robbers and murderers. The I crime shocked and horrified the city. But com- r menting upon it on Monday evening, the Deseret .- News, in the course of a rambling article, after stating that a gentleman had, on a journey here ! from California, recently encountered in a short distance "no less than forty tramps headed this way," added: "It is one of the curses that inevitably in-evitably follow the establishment of temples of vice in any community." We might construe that f literally and ask if "the spirit of apostasy" has come upon the News, but we prefer to ask the News a few questions: (1) Under whose absolute abso-lute rule and safeguard were the first temples of vice established here? (2) Who built and still own the costliest of those temples? (3) Were they not having unrestrained license to carry on their business when that absolute rule was broken and the city heard the first note of progress prog-ress that had been sounded here for years? (4) What other agency except the Deseret News has for nearly four years past been falsely ad vertising the government here as one of misrule? mis-rule? (5) In all the half century before that, when blood-atoners walked these streets, when the police force was made up of thugs, and when "holy elders" of the church which the News says r is the only true church, were establishing, furnishing fur-nishing and finding inmates for those temples of vice, did the News utter one protest? 'Within an hour after the murder and robbery rob-bery on Saturday night, through the adroitness, sagacity, instinctive perception and vigilance of one man, those murderers and rpbbers were safely caged. Could the News have had its way, where would that man have been? Did it not for many months and years pursue him? Did it not publish the statements of bunco steerers, holdups, hold-ups, confessed thieves and harlots, as truthful statements, and on them try and convict this man daily? It at the same time being in a conspiracy con-spiracy to pursue him with false charges to his ruin. And this is the organ, a part of whose record i3 truthfully given above, that for fifty years was busy in condoning offenses, compounding , felonies, justifying horrible crimes, and helping to shield criminals, that has suddenly become lWMI fearfully concerned about the maladministration V of this city's government and the carnival of L crime. Could hypocrisy and falsehood go fur- 'I ther? ' Some desperadoes stopped off here a few days ago; they committed the murder and robbery rob-bery in the evening, in an hour they were behind the bars of the jail. Was that work by a city police ever excelled? Will that cause other would-be murderers and robbers to come here? f A hundred reports have come from the west of late that California was literally overrun by f . tramps this last winter. It is time for the spring ' 'K work over there, and doubtless California is male- $fc ing it hot for men who will not work when there ' ' is plenty of work to do, and they are swarming ! along the railroads. Those who have taken to the Southern Pacific are of necessity traveling x west. Some of them may come here. Their JjA business in life is to go and come. But how long ft$H will they be able to remain here? And what lji 0 proof do they supply that they are coming this !p way because the city of Salt Lake offers them any encouragement to come? From every source except the Deseret News, all the word that has gne out from Salt Lake for months has been thv the city is prospering as never before, and more working men are employed em-ployed here and at better wages, than in any city of the size of this one on all this round world. What, then, is the object of the foul croaklngs of this journalistic bird of prey that is continually continual-ly fouling its own nest? Does its religion require that kind of boosting? If it does, what kind of a religion is it? Was ever a spectacle so grotesque seen before? be-fore? A newspaper that on its first page parades pa-rades the motto of "Truth and Liberty" as its symbol, and claims to be the official organ of the only true church of Christ on earth, and on its fourth page bears more false witness against its fellow-men than can be found in any other dozen publications on earth. Where in the history of the Saviour does it find its authority for this? And just on the eve of conference, when all young Utah will know how it is lying. Go To! |