The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1886-10-16
OF SALT LAKE.
MoRMoNs AND DIvoRcE.

Only nov and then does THE HERALD
devote any Of its valuable space to
showing. up the lies daily circulated by
its unesteemed morning contempe-
rary. This paper could not assume TO
correct all the lies told by the Tribune
without employing two or thres extra
writ 9rs, and making the daily issue equal
in size to the Sixteen Page SUNDAY HER
AID, and then we would have to omit'
the news to make place for refutaiIons
so prolific is our contemporary in falsi
flying the facts. On Wednesday the
Tribune told a lie editorially which is
so brazen as to demand its exposure.
It wanted to be mean and dirty to
wards Probate Judge Smith of this
county and the Mormons and in order
% crafty its desires it had TO indulge
is mania for lying which it did without
tint, printing a score or more Of
wicked faIsehoods in the space Of
uarter of column, only one Of which !
10 we care 10 notice this morning.
peaking of the divorce business in the
rebate Court, the Trib ne says it is
wholesale business" and proceeds:
Now Gentiles do not go tol
is eourt for divorces. It is
ally the everlasting covenant
ass that be Judge Smithl deals with, +"
C. Just how much of a lie this is the
cords will show, and these The HKR.
d has taken the trouble to examine,
ginning with October LIST. 1885, and
ntinuing through the list until the
esent time. During that period of
elve and one-hslf months, just fifty
ForoeEUits have been instituted in the
obate Court; the parties to just nine
the fifty are known to be Mormons,
lich locks very much as if the Tribune
d when it said that only Mormons
ut to the Probate Court for legal
oaration- In just twenty-three of
cases, or within two Of one-haf.
parties are known to be non-Mor-
ms, and some of them are very
eminent auti-M Ormons, which also
Ks as if somebody besides Saints
at to Judge Smith for a dissolution
the marriage tie. In each of eight
the suits one of the parties
Gentle and the other
been, or now is Mormon,
in just ten OF the suits it is not
,wE whether the parties are Nor
as or Gentiles, but the natural pre-
lption is that they belong to the lat
class, for if they were Mormons the
would be very apt to be known. Then
i'll be seen that as matter of fact,
esd of the MOrmons being the "only
s" who apply to the Probate Court
divorces, but Is per cent. Of those
! sue In that court for divorces are
mons, the 50 per cent. being made
Z f those who are out-and-out Gen
and those who are not in good fell
hip In the Mormon church. When
looks at the disproportion in these
,es, and reflects that there is even q
,r disproportion the other way In
class population, he cannot help the
7ght that even the Tribune sheuld
% for its class. The population of
Territory is made up of Mormons
Gentiles In the proportion of 81 per
of the former to 16 of the latter;
'e, If We continue our figuring, We
that 16 per cent. of the popula
obtain SO per cent. of the divorces,
,e84 per cent. of the people (the
/ I nons) procure but Is per cent. of
iYJrces.
ere is another interesting fact in
connection which may arouse the
ne. Thirty-nine of the fifty suits
l,Yorce were brought by attorneys
appeared for the plaintiffs, and
enames are on the papers; nine
Of these suits were brought by
lie lawyers, and twenty by Nor
attorneys; and the names of the
and most highly respected Gen
embers of the Salt Lake bar are
in the list, Tribune pets being
.sg the number.
he Tribune had any reputation for
and Veracity to protect it wouldn't
such reckless statements as it did
;gsrd 10 divorces, even to make q
against the Mormons.
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