Show CAIXE DOES NOT APOLOGIZE Expressions of Loyalty to the < Dear Old F1agi and a Protest Against Misrepresentation John T Caine made rather damaging admissions in the Tabernacle yesterday when lie tried to justify the lowering of flags to halfmast on the public buildings build-ings on the Fourth His remarks in the beginning were flavored with apologies apolo-gies for the act and his expressions of loyalty for the dear old flag which they were accused of publicly insulting were profuse and flowery He said that by expressing their sorrow for the injustice in-justice they were receiving at the hands of the officers of the government through having their people imprisoned without just cause by having the flags at half mast on the anniversary of our National Independence the Mormons had placed the straw in the hands of their enemies that has developed into a cudgel through misrepresentation He then sail We dont intend to try to please our enemies we dont want anybody to judge and construe con-strue our sentiments we have no apologies apolo-gies to make for our acts were not treasonable treas-onable we were here when our enemies came and we will be here when they are dead and forgotten From the drift of his pseudosermon it is eident that most of the leaders counseled coun-seled and were parties to tho halfmast ing of the flags He put considerable stress on the assertion that the Morons had been accused of everything but being fools and that they were hardly prepared to make fools of themselves by any overt acts at this late date yet from his manner of putting it he evidently feared that they had A few lame excuses and protestations of loyalty by the leaders will hardly set the Mormon people right before the world and as to their protestations that no insult was meant to the flag everyone can draw their own conclusions from the concusionR act that no action was taken to punish those who did the work The whitewashing white-washing process make it only evident that the leading men of the Mormon church were the real offenders and the city officers were puppets in their hands |