Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1892-06-22
THE WEST ADDRESS AGAIN.


We necessarily, In this connection,
presented SONS details Of the character
Of the fraudulent discourse and itn
Or in. In making this - planiu n,
he fact Of It's having originated with
tho Salt Lake Tribune, In the columns
Of which It appeared on March 18th,
1884, was mentioned. By that paper
1t was, at the time, thus introduced
rs Geographical report OF bishop
Vests haranguc In the Juab school
house, Sunday, March 9TH. 1881. Report
cd for the Salt Lake Tribune.
In a lengthy editorial article In the
zane issue OF that Journal tho writer
pretended, with double dyed deceit, to
believe the address to be genuine.
That article begins thus;
"Today We print verbatim report Of
an address delivered by Bishop West, OF
Juab, a. forwarded by Jricnd."
Yesterday we gave an idea u the
mutderous character Of the statements
embodied In this fraudulent discourse.
Our leading object In treating upon the
theme was 10 show the villainy OF
Tuscarora Powers snd his gang In
using the vile ."Mormon" forgery
at Chicago, hut incidentally exhibited
the rascsllty OF the orlglnators Of the
wicked slander upon whole people.
Here Is the characteristic reply Of the
paper referred to. In this mornings IL
sue;
again the Dsscrei Ncirs has the In
famous mcniaclty To say tina, ,he Bishop
West 'Rod-Iioi address was evidently
manufactured In the Office Of the SALT
LAKE TainUNE.' And again We must
without stlnl and scoundrel without
conscience. Tho fict H. ~ We have stntod
constantly, thai addrc-, was sont to this
oilico ~ communication, and purported
To be a report OF an address actually do
liverod In Juab. Whom we found th.
was no, 50, we promptly stated tho facI
and at tho same time quoted sentiments
M Identical IN admittedly genuine Nor.
mon dlsooarsos that tho public could
o,sily see wa were no, much at fault In
using tho bogus address"
IL is quite in lesant aud vulgar to
say, awe must BRAID the editor OF the
NEWS s liar without stint and
Bcouudrei without conscience" We
have no desire 10 make use Of such un-
gentlemsnly language tow arb the edi.
tor the Tribune; 1t Is not compatible
with anything but low breeding and
degraded taste. But even II wo had
any desire to indulge In language the
use OF which amounts 10 selfabRse-
ment OF the person who resorts to It,
II would be quite unnecessary. We
only need to present facts and that Of
course Mt once places the Individual on
the other side OF the contention In the
category In which he enormously lists
tho editor Of this Jodrnal. We still as.
sert that the Bishop West address was
ovidentiy manufactured Ia the Tribune
oil ~.
Here Ia one point In evidence; while
We belivs the Tribune people TO DO
capable OF committing the bogus
address, forgery, We have no iisa that
they are idiots. II they were really
imposed upon and believed that the
clumsy aud brutal address, which we
have not sp,cs 10 Reproduce In the
Issue OF today, was real, the idiocy
theory would be forced upon Us. lion
the other hand the bogus discourse was
Published while those who gave It
publicity believed, rs they must have
done. that II was n forgery, the matter
of being formulated In the Tribune
iilce or not Ia as broad Ms II l. long.
Tue crime 10 no greater one way or the
o her. Even n the evidence
Of the monstrous connection having
been formulated In the tribune Office
could, by any means, be set aside, the
forgery would not be very far from II
sinctum, seeing That, according TO The
admission Of the editor, 1t was fyr.
warded 10 him "by ffield.D That 4.
TO say, "a friend" OF tho Tribune
manufactured the address and thai
paper adopted 1t by giving 1t publicity
The editor Of our wrathfu aud unpriu.
cipled cotemporary further commits
himself, by saying;
"wo were not 30 much at iaul! in using
the bogus address"
The basis OF justification for being q
party to u forgery aud Islander after II
not before the fact II that when the
explanation OF tho Tribune being i'm.
posed upon WAS mad. sit quoted
sentiments 20 identical In admit
ledly genuine Mormon discOurses.'
seas TO n VS. not much at fault In
using the Bish y West fraudulent scr
mon. II Is now In order to show
what IL TIVE character Of the idens u
the Tribune editor IN relation TO iden
tity oi sentiments when pretending /,
quote genuine Mormon discoursos.'
In Sivirg the proof We will 10 out,id,
tnu "Mormon" people, and introdu
correspondence from "Gentile'
which appeared in the NEWS \ yea
AMI half sgoi
SALT LAKE ANARCHISTS.