Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1891-08-24

speeches made about quarter OF a
century ago, couplrd with bogus
report Of remarks alleged to have been
made In 1909 by President Young, aud
the comparison, even then, does not |
accomplish what was desircd anu |
threatened and attempted.
There IL no similarity Of style, Of
spirit, or purpose between them. No
mormon" ever talked In public OF In
private or advised or felt like the CON
cocier q the bogus "Aidfess." The
contrast between what has been raked
up from TACT and fiction and the md
dress,b even ~ mutila,cl aud modified
In the Tribune, = apparent 70 every In
tolligent reader.
But whatever may he tile opinion A.
TO this, tho argument remains that
alleged remarks quarter OF n century
old, even II rashof aud roughct than
quoted, form no excuse whatever for
tho publication Of mountaineering
"addrc.sv that was never made, pur-
porting TO have been delivered by
rcrson who never existed, and at
place where no meeting was hold.
Aud. further, when the utter f'lsily
aud infamy Of Il was demonstrated 10
clearly that II could not be- denied, the
pretended apology was not made any
morc genuine than the address" by
the statement that
"Itls 10 like what l. going on all tho
time. aud tho ordinary talk aud feelings
OF tho majority here, that II might have
been delivered even by saint"
That Il part Of tho pretended Gre.
traction" published a week after tho
bogus"A sdress" was printed and after
Il had been circulated NO as 10 accom-
pllsh the blood,hirs,y design. Aud
that Is what the present apologlst for
the libel, and ga,hefcr of old scraps Of
Irrelevant matter refers 10 when
he saysi
awe submit 20 candid public whether
a moro ample refuta,ion was ever mad,
than the foregoing"
Now then IA to IL effects. We have
given names and dates and circum'
stances, showing how the circulation Of
this bogus and bloody "address" In
Tennessee led 10 the inhuman massacre
Of saintsat Sabbath meeting at Cane
Creek. The apologlst now says;
'Tho Elders In Tennessee wcro mobbod
for preaching polygsmy"
A few days ago he said they were
killed because
"Thcy had persuaded two or three
mons wiyo, TO leave tholr husbands, or
some young girls 10 leave their homes 10
come to Utah to have their souls sayod.'
IL rs difficult 10 follow a writer who
Il all tho time forgetting himself" but
we intend TO keep pinning him down
when he lodges from one falsehooi to
another, and no matter how much nth
he may vomii ut Us personally, that will
make no difference. Both his state
mrnta are equally untrue and cowardly.
This assassinatcd Elders neither
preached polygamy nor induced mons
wives or daughters 10 leave their homes.
This calumniallon Of tho dead IL In
keeping with his slanders Of the living,
and there Is no need to say what he Is,
the public will perceive his character
and supply the natural lnvectlves.
We take this opportunity Of Of thank
Ing our fflonds-both "hiormons" aud
non. 'Niormons" WHO have expressed
their regard for the cdi.or Of tn,
NEWS and their detestatlon OF tn,
course pursued by the discounted
Tribune scribe when unable to meet
fair argument. Hut We assure then
that his mess Of witlcss scurrility had
no other effect upon VI than that pro
duced by the clipping at the head Of
this article - II produced hearty
laugh aud the Idea that In eEhaustinl
his exquisite vocabulary for opithet
against the vilost person living that Ia
was forgetting himself"