Show r ft NAILED BY THE DOZEN f IT the declaration of grievances and protest of the mormon people has already had at least ono it hase tung the anti amor mon organs of salt lake city into frenzy and they arc their old threadbare self centra victory dic tory absurd lies with unusual acrimony which discloses their base part izan character and treasonable filthy designs it be amiss to give a partial list of these glaring falsehood it is alleged finst that george Q cannon prepared the declaration of grievances this is an absolute lie SECOND that every man who was engaged in writing the protest namely the ap pointed at th annual conference is the sworn subject of another government and not a citizen of the united states this is a i berous lie which no one but a nincompoop would perpetrate third that the person who is alleged to have written the pro test and who addresses the president and people of the united states as fellow citizens never was a citizen of the united states himself this ia a transparent lie FOURTH that in utah there ia a bonafide which would cast off the sovereignty the united states today to day if it had the power this is a favorite lie which political intrigues are tired of repeating and the object its utterance is treasonable in that it aims at the overthrow of republican in this territory and the establishment of a petty local anti mormon despotism that would make the people serfs that neither the mor mons nor their leaders give their first political allegiance to the republic and that their obedience to the laws extends no further alian such as to suit their own convex this is a pestiferous lie that the cormons mormons Mor mons are not american citizens this is a self evident lie have not a right which any american citizen possesses that lias ever been placed in jeopardy this is a wilful lie as the fact that mor mons havo been and arc dis frans chased and de barred from sitting on grand juries clearly proves EIGHTH that the relief sought by the people of utah 13 relief from obeying necessary laws this is a lie pure and simple NINTH that tho protection sought by the people of this territory is protection in the committal of crime this is a slanderous lie of the first magnitude TENTH that cormons mormons Mor mons have no right to appeal for freedom from the arbitrary acts and tyranny of carpetbag carpet bag statesmen and a tramp horde of alien federal pap suckers this is a lie which carries its own reputation upon its face ELEVENTH that the people who endorsed indorsed indor sed the protest would have ratified it just as willingly had it been read to them in alic egyptian language this is a stupid lie worthy of the imbecile who wrote it TWELFTH that the people went to indorse anything that was demanded of them this is an insulting lie which assumes that the cormons mormons Mor mons are fools that the people have no right to speak in tho name of justice this is a lie eo absurd that it beema almost ludicrous fourteenth that justice is the only thing which the mor mona fear this is a malignant lie FIFTEENTH that alio assertion that plural marriage checks sensuality is alko saying that to keep a man drunk takes away hia appetite for liquor this ia a spacious lie with a paradoxical simile ap to it the paper that pub bishea it has advocated tho introduction and extension of prostitution as n antidote for polygamy which is like saying that to correct ono alleged docial evil it is to introduce another indi bably tably a thousand times moro vile SIXTEENTH that tho mor mons came here to utah in the hope of getting beyond the confines of the union this is a lie which is exploded by the indisputable fact that the mormon pioneers who first arrived in these raised alio stars and and thus vir dually took possession of alu 3 wild and then barren region in the baiao of the american republic seventeenth that tho mor have sought statehood that they might snap their fingers in the face of the government and kill free speech e and make it impossible tor an american citizen to pvc athla ig a libelous lie without the least foundation in fact that alio mor mons aro trying to b buildup a beastly and absolutely merciless despotism on the free soil of the united states thia is alie boldest lie ever uttered by a paper that has played the pimp to harlotry in this territory that the mor mons have preached treason to their children for eight and thirty years this 13 the lie of would by usurpers usurp ers and anti Mormon traitors who are poking to foment civil war in ahls territory by vilifying the people beyond endurance and misleading the federal government that the mor mons train their children to defeat the execution of the laws of the united states by perjury this is a villi anous lie without even the least semblance of truth or even a vestige of suspicion upon which to build it twenty farst that the first oath which a mormon child is taught to take is one of hate against the republic this is alie a lie based upon another presumptive falsehood no child in this territory is taught oaths of any description except by anti mormon prints following in the wake of this prevarication wo expect to hear these anti mormon sheets allege gravely that mormon children are taught treason and the like two years before their birth TWENTY SECOND that the mormon religion is founded on animalism this is an audacious lie for the newspaper champion of prostitution to propagate TWENTY THIRD that the mor mons have turned the home into a stock ranch and bent over the cradles of thousands of innocent children and upon their white brows have burned deep the brand of shame this is an outrageous outrage grandiloquent lie which almost any other than the mormon people ji 11 i u wipe ia its author out of existence the identical sheet that utters it is daily attempting to hang the red letter of bastardy upon the bosom of innocent mormon youth and maidenhood ind by all means in its power it is endeavoring to taint the repute and blight the dearest future prospects of guileless mormon children TWENTY FOURTH that the mor mons have done what they could to throttle free speech and a free press this is a whole lie the fact that the wretched print which yesterday uttered each and all of the foregoing seditious falsehoods is nevertheless suffered to exist without even any particular notice alone refutes entirely this deliberate prevarication we have already enumerated two dozen black lies which appeared in one issue of the salt lake tribune and we might continue the operation of nailing these libels ad et ad usque but for the present these dively few specimens from this anti mormon sheet may suffice such a startling exhibition of imbecility and depravity has seldom or never before been witnessed m all the history of part izan journalism men who are capable of stifling the public with such brutal unabashed newspaper lies could not bo trusted under oath and are not fit to exercise the righta of american citizenship they deserve to bo starved out of their sinister pation because their atrocious lies no purposes save choso of blackmail and domestic discord their proper place ia in a convicts con victa cell where kindred malefactors aro placed to protect abo public from criminal outrages |