Show A LIE the facts regarding the entrance pioneers upon this soil have been printed a thousand times it is known to the world and has been conceded by editors preachers and judged who acro prejudiced against the people here but were compelled to acknowledge a truth so manifestly that while five hundred cormons mormons were helping to win the nations battles against mexico brigham young and hia devoted companions were taking possession of these desolate foreign valleys in the name of the united states long before the guadalupe treaty was accomplished the flag of our country lad been planted upon these peaks and in these vales by the hands of Brig liam young amidst loyal prayers and rejoicings rejo icings and during the interval which elapsed between the of july 1847 and the cession of this region by mexico no one of our national times of thanksgiving was neglect 1 ed occasionally during the past third of a century some malignant idiot haa asserted in pulpit or press that the men who came here and founded a commonwealth had intended to establish an inland em pire independent of the national government but tho facts havo been BO plain and tho proof BO final that euch silly falsifier a have been compelled to retract or be silent yet now comes the san francisco california and talks about the time when brigham young ed hia host out into the desert and raised the flag of defiance to the united state the alia has been a journal of conservative views careful expression and high reputation in these respects it had no peer upon the coast but if ita ed ors are BO poorly informed or so untruthful regarding other points of national history and social events as they appear to le regarding the settlement of it is in a fair way to lose ata prestige anstead of attempting to handle question of politics history or social life alic ita with bui present corps of wr r tera should confine itself to the markets and auction A on city when tho aw mada its appearance with the I 1 boastful egotistical salutatory re i marked to hia frieml 1 I will warrant i yon that the concern will show its cloden hoof within six monalia mont lia |