The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1893-10-24
THE ..rRIBuSE,s" TERRIBLE TALE.

THE .sTRIBUNE's" TERRIBLE TALE
| is too late in the day for the Sal
Lake Tribune to work up any kind Of
a sensation which will be of avail tc
the Liberal cause, by fathering ridicu-
lous fabrications about Mormon out
RACES There was a time when they
answered the purpose Of prejudicing
the public mind, but they will moi
work now worth a dime. But once in
a while the Tribune tries to palm of
some preposterous story of that sort
as an excuse for its hostility to state
hood
It's latest effort in that direction was
a terrible tale from Mendon. Cache
county, and a milder narration from
Richfield, Sewer county. The former
was of man named James Lamont,
who met with mishap when he was
taking couple of young mules to a
pasture, and was knocked down and
dragged so that he received a scalp
wound and several scratches. This
was told by the Tribune in way to
convey the impression that Lamont
had been maltreated by Mormons.
The latter was of an alleged attack on
three lady school teachers, which was
subsequently tapered down to a state
ment that some boys yelled and some
body broke a pane of glass at the back
of the house where the teachers lived
in front.
These dreadful deeds were paraded
in a long editorial in the Tribune as
reasons why Utah should not be adj
mitted into the Union. The Herald
did not take any stock in the stories,
knowing the Tribune's failing in such
matters, but admitting for arguments
sake that the man was not kicked by
a mule but knocked on the head by an
enemy, and that all that was alleged
about the window breaking at Rich
field was correct, ridiculed the idea
that they formed any rational argu-
ment against statehood.
Then the Tribune, as usual when it
is worsted in argument, became angry
and personally abusive, and triumph
antly produced a long letter from a
Presbyterian preacher at Mendon, ac-
companied by a purported communica-
ton from the man that was kicked by
his mule. 1t was evident that the
preacher had a hand in both effusions
It was also evident to a critical reader
that the Presbyterian was trying TO
work up a cheap case of martyrdom
for himself and to ring in the mule
disaster to give color to his own com
plants
For casting doubt on this tale of woe
and still further showing that whether
true or not it was no good ground for
denying statehood to two hundred and
fifty thousand people, The Herald was
further abused and more personalities
were INDUCED in against the editor.
Now comes the Deseret News with
full particulars of that case, affidavits
from well known reliable residents of
Mendon, the statement of the injured
man himself, and a complete and thor
ough explanation of all the facts in
cident to the occurrence. It is made
as clear as the sunlight on a cloudless
day that the whole sensation. with
sundry embellishments and distortions.
is the work of the one horse preacher
who has been trying in vain to get
somebody to tread on the tail of his
coat, and who wants to pose as a
martyr among a people who take no
notice of him. The outrage was COM
mitted by the mules, and the pious
Presbyterian induced the man La
mont to write something about it
which he amplifed and colored to suit
his purpose and the Tribune's, and
that is all there is of it.
Now what we have to say, finally.
on the matter is. that supposing the
stories told by the Tribune were true,
if the man at Mendon was knocked
down and hurt, even if he had been
killed by some malicious person, and
if half a dozen windows instead of
one had been broken at Richfield. a
paper that would seize upon such oc-
currences as arguments that this
great and splendid territory should be
deprived of the rights and privileges
of statehood, must be either lament
ably destitute of common sense, or so
maliciously spiteful in its hatred of
liberty for Utah as to forfeit the re-
spect of all but the most bitter and
bigoted of the Liberal faction of
which it is the representative. The
outrage factory is out of date.
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