Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1895-03-18
AMANLY pIscLAlMER.
The editor Of the NEWS received
some two weeks ago tho following
manly letter.

The editor Of the NEWS received
some two weeks ago tho following
manly letter.
SAT- LAKE CITY, UrAu,
March ., 1906.
My Dear Slr:-l have boon much an
noyod by suggestions and iuHlnunti0ns
10 tho OBJECT that 4 either wrote ur ln
some way aided In tho recent publication
ln tho Nuw York Times tonocunT upon
Mr.. Goo. q Cannon. 4 seldom dOuy
matters oftnis kind, and, Ia fact, iu tl1
present Instance, opportunity Tor denial
has nos been presented.
wish, if the opportunity ufisoa, that
you will convoy 10 Mr.. Cannon tho state.
mont that ! make, that had nothing TO
do with tho publication, aud know
nothing about the same until 10 appeared.
4 am trying 10 Htrloly mind my own
business. / mako no anonymous attacks.
What / say, i say publicly Whatever ]
write appears over my own signature.
Very truly yours,
In replying 10 this letter, which wa
marked "conndentlal," tue editor Of
tho NEWS asked that any injunction
against ~ publication DO removed
tho desire was expressed that tho COM
munioaiion might 10 printed. Ina
second letter Of recent date this 70.
quest 10 complied with, Judge Powers
saying: "in view OF recent publica.
lions In the New York 7tmcS, ana con-
iinued suggestions that I am Ia some
way responsible therefor, you may act
your pleasure In regard to printing my
letter."
Our ploature Il to give tho letter Ell
the publicity possible-not indeed
because In tho minds OF those
most Interested there was any aus.
piclon that the gentleman was the
author Of the anonymous ISLANDERS, but
because others have perhaps done him
Injustice by such suspicion, and prln-
clpally because no nssefls the courage
ihatovory man who assAils another In
print ought to posaess-the manhood
10 accept public responsibility for his
attack. II IL our further pleasure to
state that whatever differences the
editor Of the NEwa or any one olse
may have had with Judge Powers, we
have never deemed him ana have
never heard II said OF him that he was
either a coward or n sneak; We believe
n will DO generally conceded that
his methods a. an Antagonist are not
those Of the masked midnight Assassin
or the akulking traitor, but rather
those OF theknown, hyowed enemy, rho
lights hard but open, aud Ms such il al
ways deserving Of respect.
His second letter concludes with
sentiment that Ia pretty well recog.
mixed ~ sound and eenslble-ono that
may explain to a good many ahal.
low and suspicious inlellocB why
those most Affected by the
New York THisSs falsshoods are
content TO treat them with silent
contempt Alter Withdrawing the
Injunction Of "conhdential" from the
letter which We have above quoted In
full, Judge Powers rays cat the
samo time feel that II rarely pays
one to attempt 10 meet all that h said
against him In any other way than 10
lot his lilo speak for the truth, which
In the end prevails"
We approve and applaud this most
cordially AMI commend II, and The
whole correspondence as quoted, 70
two or three grovoling things that
crawlund m2u,he around among decent
people without 30 much doCency AND
courage AZ belong 10 an esrlhwOTm.