Show M1MVCIT KUN MU Ihu Moimon morninc pipti vtitoiday I in b its editorial columns accuses thus P A II lianklinof tho Methodist Chinch of Inexcusable and downright lin In I tho following statement mode by him to a reporter for one of the papers in Pittsbtirg Pa As an instance of Mormon nijuntioo I re for to our fnruihiL llio forma are watered by a system of artificial irrigation Ibis streams me nil controlled by tho Mormons amid those farmers who mire not members of the Mormon Church jet no water or it lIt ru urn Moruion farmer abandons thin Church l his eater supply is interfered i with I The result of this is that interpnsius I men will not 001110011 to our land Tithe same spirit of tyrannical discrimination pervuden ibis en tIre ierrory We ecu therefore a stats still community although we possess the most proliflo soil in the West It is cafe to assert that there is hardly a tannin district in Utah under tho ton trol of Mormons where tho abovoslatf ment m does not hold good In wholo or In part Ono docs not have lo To further O to t j C L1 > L > than 1 ehl to substantiate Mi ranklins assertion The records of tho court for that district will show that water running run-ning to asts ill the I eld water ditch was refused again and again by Mormons I who assumed to control to a few Gentiles I Gen-tiles and vpo latcs who had tnl en up and purchased firms ncir tho mouth of I American Fork 111011 This too In the face of olfeis to work on the ditch 01 pay liberally In motipv for tho use of simper I abundant water Not only stern tin I obnoxious parties icfi spd Irrigition facd ilicx hut the Bishop now dead and leading Mormons of that stako achocitcd violence and threatened the lives of gooui I citizens and peaceable and loyal men who had sottlod upon tho public lands of ho United Mates It was only when heso clotot mined men armed themselves I and dofipcl the traitorous church crew tint public threats ceased to bo fill i initiated from the f ehl tabernacle 1 Driven I to vexatious tutu expensive litiga ilion i I ion tho obnoxious settlers whose advent ad-vent in my loyal settlement would hart i been hailed 1 with pleasure and words of I welcome steno granted watu lights in spite of Mormon hostility The incndn eious Mormon paper gnaws a file when I it accuses Mi ranklln I If lying in this I matter I |