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Show H.T KOM) lUTKK. Tim Trllmni' Otl'-Shuot Ihmlcs a lloniion KiOcrto 11, -. resent Old 1'loneeiw. The following clipping from the Salt Lake Times, which (lentile organ, by the way, is resorted to by the Box-Jones Trilume oll'-shoot up the street when it wants to prove such a man as Hon. Moses Thatcher a fa 1 s i fi er, will bo er u sed with interest by our readers: '"The Times has always been opposed op-posed to immediate statehood. The Mormon rjuestion needs moro working out; needs a gentile majority major-ity that can on a pinch give it an everlasting quietus. To this alleged al-leged Democratic measure we are unalterably opposed. It is a fraud, a trick. It bears on its face the brand of the church and is about the most transparent scheme the church ever tried to work on the national government. "There never was such a thing as an honest attempt at division on national party lines in Utah. The Times once thought there was, but this bill proves directly the contrary. It is drawn up with the same skill and cunning that has so often all but ball led the national government in its dealings with Utah. It demands statehood while professiug to want nothing of the kind. inu iuurmun cnurcn nas always al-ways been most fertile hi resources common to the confidence operator. Many of us, however, had hoped, since issuance of the manifesto and the dissolution of the people's party, that its profession of reform was sincere, and a considerable number of non-Mormons have been credulous enough to believe so, even following the evidence to the contrary afforded by the trickery trick-ery and duplicity that cropped out so prominently at the election of last August. This new trick for statehood, however, has completely filled the measure of evidence of utterly bad faith, so much so indeed in-deed that it has slopped over sufficiently suf-ficiently for a blind man to see it, and the Times will have none of it." lien. Moses Thatcher is beloved, esteemed, highly honored and respected re-spected by ninety-nine out of every hundred men in Box Elder County, and when an insignificant little paper attempts to malign such as h e, w i t h i n fo r m a t i on em a n a t i n g from a Mormon-eater source like the Times, as was the case this week, you can imagine the weight of the argument. This same Tribune oil-shoot has quoted from this same unreliable Times in a vain endeavor to ''down" our worthy Sheriff Carl Loveland, which ''Old Timer" refers to on fourth page today. No wonder all the respectable people of Brig-ham Brig-ham City and the county, who once subscribed are refusing to take such an irresponsible sheet from the postotlice, being, as w e have heard a dozen representative men express themselves within the past feu days, such a small, low-souled outfit they would be ashamed to have their wives and children read it. |