The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1883-11-14
UNRELIABLE PRESS TELE-
GRAMS.

Press telegram sent from this Gil
on the date given:
SALT LAKE, Utah, Nov. 9.-The con
nnents OF eastern journals on the Uts
question are received with pleasure b
the Gentiles, who think the public ap
preoiate the relations between the Nor
mons and the government. Ever
day prominent members leave for tt
east. An Influential lobby will be pres
ent in Washington to defeat any legisla
ton looking to the overthrow of the mar
srcy,
Every day or two similar dis
patches are sent out, all concocte(
with the single purpose of creating
and pandering to an anti-Mormor
sentiment, the ultimate aim being
inimical legislation. There seems
to be an anti-MormOn literary bu
reau, with headquarters in this city
where the points are invented and
the general plan outlined, editors
east and west being expected to do
their writing from the subjects that
are manufactured here. The
above = telegram ought to
furnish the ground work for many
stirring editorials intended to spur
Congress to vigorous action. It
doesn't matter that the local agent
OF the Associated Press drew en-
tirely upon his imagination for the
statement made. The eastern
editor is trusted to accept all that is
sent as truth. He pays for the tel
egrams, and of course must believe
what they say, otherwise they are
useless to him and his readers,
There are three assertions in the
above. and each of them is a plain.
unvarnished falsehood, fabricated
and put in circulation by the local
Associated Press reporter. He would
not dare publish them here over his
own signature, for their untruth is
SO apparent that even the bitterest
of the Anti>Mormons would not
accept them. Now, it is
fact that the Gentiles
do not receive with pleasure the
comments of the eastern journals
on the Utah question. On the con-
trary, intelligent Gentiles are dis
gusted by the utterances Of the
ordinary eastern editor on the local
question, and are willing to make
affidavit that the average eastern
editor, In his writings on Utah
matters, displays degree of ignor-
anee that is painful to contemplate
in person occupying his position !,
In nine cases out Of ten the eastern
editor, when be comments on Utah,
writes himself down an ass. The
writings in the eastern journals are
largely suggestive of course,
which If pursued would produce
disorder and anarchy. The Gentiles
understand this, and as the large
majority Of them are in business
and desirous Of peace and prosperity,
they can hardly approve and ap>
plaud that which would produce OPP
posite results.
"Every day prominent members
fof the Mormon church) leave for
the east" Is the statement of the
veracious correspondent. We be-
lieve that within the past six weeks
four gentlemen who might be said
to be prominent" Mormons, have
gone east, three of them going on
one day. and the fourth three weeks
later; hence the dispatcher's as
sertion becomes like that of the old
man, whose two sheep coming un-
tied, were scattered all over crea-
tion;" or like Artemus Wards sue
cessful lecture course which drew
an audience for zone consecutive
night" The telegrapher, perhaps,
had these things in his mind
when he wrote that prominent
Mormons were going east every
day. But the fact that Mormon
gentlemen go east does not imply
that they are bent on lobbying
affairs. We happen to know that
neither of the four referred to who
have gone out during the past six
weeks went with any idea of lobby
ing, their business being private.
and having nothing whatever to do
with Congress or lsw-msking, or
with the prevention of legislation.
The dispatcher may be clairyoy-
ant and able to peer into the future;
and having cast aside the vail been
gazing into next winter, where he
saw az i9saensia. Eoraisz lsRby