Show IS S THERE NO 0 LIMIT Tuesday morning the Tribune published pub- pub a long artcle article Intensely bitter bitel an and abusive based on the declaration that hat tho the stars and stripes ha had been hoisted bottom up over the federal building on Labor day ay and had been kept pt c-pt In that position all aU day lay S Ten thousand people know the tho statement state state- nent ment is not true Not a a man believes it was true if IC he bases his bele belief on knowledge The Tho Hag Hag was wasn wa wan n plain sight of all al men throughout all ni tho ho hours of that gala da day an and he the throng Is willing to lo testify that It I was vas In Its Is proper position Combined with wih the published statement state- state ment the Iho Tribune used a bitter al alack attack at- at tack ack tac on the custodian of or the building accusing him of disloyalty to the thc gov- gov and of or purposely el Inflicting nn an n I insult insult sul on t the e nation naton and of offer offer- lug ing ng a affront to the labor unions which were enjoying their annual anual an- an anal ual holiday Mr lr Ferguson who who raIsed the lie Hag flag nag makes the following statement and anti ma may be ex excused used for asking asking that ho be bo Judged with fairness fair fair- nc ness s Editor Republican In yesterday mornings morning's Tribune appears apcar a statement state state- mont ment to the effect that the National Ensign was yesterday hoisted over ovel the tho Federal building and in the elegant language of that was unfurled upside down and that it I remained In n that position Monday lonay morning morning I am janitor janior In charge charge of tho the Federal Fed Fed- eral ral building and amI at 7 45 a a. a m. m I 1 hoisted the thc flag to the masthead d I descended from Crom the roof root an and locked the lie door leading leading to il it I retaining the I key ey In m my possession Shortly Shorty after after- aCer aCer- when on m my wa way home 1 I happened hap hap- pene to lo look at the Iho building and noticed that thal the wind had raised tho the Ha lag hag until the tho lower side Ide was was caught showing the stripes above the Iho t held field el o of blue I went back immediately and within five minutes had released it and the he fa flag floated In iii iti IM rightful lon tion ton At about aboul 10 a. a a m. m I 1 went vent to liberty park parl and anti remained there mill mi un- un- un Iii t ll late In tho the afternoon No Nu one else elso had iad access to tho the roof roar The statement that hat the flag was as unfurled upside upside down own I pronounce a 0 deliberate and anti malicious lie le The Tho further statement that hat it remained In iii il any unusual position lon tion ton for any length of or time timo I pronounce pronounce pro- pro also a deliberate and malc- malc malic- malic Ious bus ous lie le I served In tho the Spanish war var and anti was vas a member of the tho Utah Battery and served until I m my country wa wao honorably mustered out I served for months after afler my enlistment had ex- ex I have as much love anti and reverence reverence rever rever- ence for the Hag flag Hal as I the paid hireling who vho sent the Iho reporter with instructions ton lons to t magnify the story an and pie pie- pare paie a roast and who persisted lii n its is r after aCcI he must have hav known It t was untrue I came caine to Utah many years ago aso and I am willing that In the mining camps and in Salt Sal LIl Lake e City where I have lived my record should hp IP looked Into and anti compared with theman tho the thoman thoman man who Is 15 responsible fo for fat thit ma- ma false also publication and I think It I will vill bo ho found that unlike him I 1 was as not forced Coreed to lo leave m position In iii my milton II a acl cl city In tho the Mississippi t h valley valey for fur S 'S s acts Involving m my Integrity lU I lam am respectfully John B. B l. l Salt Sl Lake Sept 4 1 A few days das ago aso tho the Tribune published pub pub- a a statement that Charles G. G a business man had suffered a serious loss los because two postal cards cards properly addressed to his namer street and had not been delivered for tal a a week weck after the they should have hav been received On Sunday last Tho The Republican published hed photographic copies of or those postal cards earths and ami it i was wat seen Instant Instantly that thc they had han been addressed to lo C P. P Sandar Sandar which which I Is quite quie different from Charles G. G Sin Sin- dar and day and that thai no street or number was Included Include In the superscription Did tho the mako make any correction correction tion ton Not yet ct Ono One ca day the Tribune published hed a statement ment that a deputy sheriff herl had bad Improperly Interfered d with wih a citizen at ut Saltair and had hal been properly beaten up Sheriff Emery Emezy ma made o an Invest Invest- alion cation and found that not a single statement in the entire publication was waa true Yet the whole management of ot the sheriffs sheriff's sherif's office and Its Is personnel had been subjected to angry condemnation for tor tho the assumed disorderly conduct of or ofa ofa ora a a a deputy The thing Is common The he pub pub- lub- lub usher lisher of that thai paper seems to lo require no truth In his columns Full Ful warrant warrant warrant war war- rant an and authority seem seeni to bo ho given to 0 alu abuse o without limit every one out of favor with Tom om Kearns Kearns It I has hns become Infamous The he persistence with wih which the policy of ot defamation is followed can not be lo too stron strongly ly reprobated No one would object to the truth No one would have a IJ right ht to But there should bo ho 10 a limit to the publication of OC slanderous landerous lies Hes |