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Show A THORN IN THE SIDE DOTHING has amused us so much in a long time as aiTeditorial appearing appear-ing recently in the Deseret Evening News in which Lula Loveland Shepherd is referred to as: "A She Shepherd." In this article our contemporary laments that "so rare a posy should continue to waste her sweetness on the desert air by trying to pound and expound new terrors about 'Mormonism' into the ears of eastern audiences." The compliment continues: con-tinues: "The woman has talents of no common order an imagination so nimble that it o'erleaps every prosaic fact, a meteoric flight of fancy that can penetrate the utmost bounds of space, and a volubility that puts perpetual motion mo-tion to shame, the tongue apparently being hung in the middle so that it may wag simultaneously at both ends." Moreover, the editor opines that: "Lula is out for the money." These have been our sentiments for years, even back In the days when the lovely Lula was a rampant prohibitionist here and, as such, was the particular pet of the News. It was in this state, under the wing of the very people she is now maligning, that she got her first start. Had she not received that early encouragement, she probably would never have essayed the nation-wide mission mis-sion of slander against this state and its people. In company with all good citizens we resent her accusations every bit as much as does the Deseret Evening News; but we cannot help reminding her first sponsors that when one "sows the wind and reaps tho whirlwind," there should be no occasion for surprise. |