The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1888-10-27


| l have to say that no such cases appear o.
| the records of this Penitentiary at any date
and that there were no such persons her
last March. 1 was then warden, and ar
positive that the statement of Mrs. Newman
ARTH61R PRATT,
Warden.
Hon. John T. Game, Washington, D. C,
THE GUARDS STORY.
UTAH PENITENTIARY, october r. 1888
We have read the statement of Ward Ell
Pratt and can say from our own knowledge
that it is true, and that during the time W
have been employed in this Peniteutiary N
girls aged IA and 10, respectively, have beef
i'm priSOned here, nor have any girls beef
here in custody who were married to thei
own father. EDGAR NJ. JANNEY,
F. G. HUDSON,
T. C WRIGHT.
JAMES 4. DOYLE,
VIM n MCCURDY,
Guards at Penitentiary.
The above guards have been employed
here for long period. ami were all here
when Mrs. Angirs F. Newman made hel
visit in March last ART dur PRATT,
Warden.
CLERK NJ 'MILLAN'S VERIFICATIoN.
In the District Court for the Third
Judicial district of Utah Territory The
United states of America VS.. Sarah Tong.
Indictment for fornication.
TERRITORY OF UTAH, (ss
County of Salt Lake, 90
I, Henry G. Mcmillan, clerk OF the Dis
trict Court for the Third Judicial District oil
Utah Territory, do hereby certify in relation
to the above case as follows; Proceedings
1855, February "a, Indictment presented
and flied charging the defendant, Sarah
Tong, with the crime of fornication. CON-
mitted on the 1st day of June, 1887, with one
Peter Tong.
1888, March ., plea OF mot guilty" en-
tered.
1888, April 81. iudictme nt dismissed and
defendant discharged
In witness whereof l have hereunto set
my hand and affixed the seal OF said court,
at my Office in salt Lake City, the 18th day
of October, 1888
IsEALl HENRY C, MCMILLAN,
Clerk.
Continuing, MIR. Game said: 81 have
shown that the underlying cause of the
objection Of the controlling spirits OF
the Industrial Christian Home Associa-
ton of Utah to any control being eX-
eroised over the expenditure of the
money voted by Congre IS is their desire
to divert it TO purposes which were not
by the legislators. That
is why Mrs. Newman wants an eX-
pansion of the law to the status defined
Ia the original memorial OF the assooia-
ton to the Senate. namely, the depend
ent classes of Utah Territory The
object is to have Congress recognize an
with scope and purposes en-
tirelV different from the one Congress
supposed it was assisting.
The Senate amendment with the obiec-
phrase about women who de-
sire to sever their allegiance to the
Mormon Church stricken out will be
entirely satisfactory to Mrs. Newman
and her coad tutors. Their willingness
to have this phrase disappear is another
proof of the fact that is plainly evident,
namely, that their agitation of charity
for dependent Mormon women and
Is A MERE PRETEXT
to get access to the national Treasury.
"This was at the bottom of all the
trouble with the board of control. This
is why such terrific onslaughts are
made on the Mormon Church and
people. They desire to take advantage
Of the prejudice existing, not only in
the public mind but in Congress, where
such silly, wicked and improbable state
ments ought not to be accepted on the
mere assumption that Christian women
would not make them if they were not
true. The utter untruthfulness of
some of these statements has been
proved by irrefragible testimony. | do
not charge that those who become re-
5ponsible for these calumnies origin
ated them. On the contrary, l believe
that those who became sponsors for
them were deceived. But [ do insist
that persons who will make themselves
responsible for such faisehoods are not
of credence in any statements
they make concerning the Mormon
people.
with the sum now proposed to give,
with the uneXpended balances to be
turned over, more than 100000 will be
handed over for the objects. pursuits
and business OF the association as set
forth IN the sixth article of its articles
of incorporation. Does Congress pro-
pose to commit itself to what, l submit.
is the most visionary OF visionary
schemes? have called attention to
some of the absurdities of the objects,
pursuits and business of the associa-
ton. aud if Congress is ready to en-
dorse them by voting vast sums of
aud to assume the moral respon-
sibility of supplying still vaster sums,
let it do so. But it should assume this
with full knowledge, and
hence 1 have felt it my duty
TO SET FORTH THE FACTS.
sit must not be assumed that, in the
language of Senator Hale, the Mormon
leaders see in this institution men
ace to their cause Sufficient to arouse
their hostility. 1t is a matter of perfect
Indifference to the Mormon leaders, to
the Mormon Church. and to the Nor
mon people, how many thousands of
dollars Congress votes to the In
lustriaI Christian Home Associa-
lion of Utah, or how many hun
ireds of thousands of dollars it
assumes the moral responsibility to
vote in the future, so long as it does not
in the name of charity, to
set up an institution with the Treasury
Of the United States at its back, to in
luce persons ito sever their allegiance
to the Mormon Church. Speaking