Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1889-12-10
THE EXPOSURE HURTS THEM.

WITH satanic zeal The actlN
.'bcsses'' Of the sLiberal' part.
have expended THEN inventiv
powers in fabricating the most in
famous and damaging falsehood
about the ''AIormon'' people. Wher
these products Of infernalism have
been coined they avescattered then
abroad with a prodigal hand. Thi:
has been the ''plan Of campaign'i
from the beginning.
The philosophy Of the method is
this: II the "LibeTals" could cover
the Mormon people with the
odiYm Of a bad name, they
rightly concluded that they could
cary out their nefariOus schemes
against them with comparative
impuuity. Give q man an I'M
savOry name, however undeserved,
and ho eau be abused and trampled
upon with impunity by his enc
mics. lie will receive but little aid,
comfort or sympathy from the pub
lie. SO with community.
This is the reason why, before an
election or previous to an appeal to |
Congress forspeciaI anti Mormon |
legislation, the country is flooded |
with falsehcods about the Latter-day |
Saints and their religion. Hence
the recent effort, before the Third
District Court, to prove that the
theological system ofthe 'Mormon''
people involved the death PENALTY
upon apostates from the Church, or
those who disobey the Priesthood.
The only bloody example Of the
execution Of this alleged penalty
was manufactured at the instance
Of the ''Liberal'' anti-"NIormons,,
~ Martin Wardell, an apostate.
who, under oath, told trumped
up story about the murder Of VIII
liam Green. near Green River. in
1862.
Judge Anderson - probably
against his own inclination-an- !
nouncei that the murder was dds
proved, d" 50 overwhelming was the (
evidence in that direction. The or .
gan Of the anti-'NIormon'' "Liber- S
ais party held to it that the story
was true, Notwithstanding that it Z
was completely annihilated by d
proof. g
Even now that William Green q
has been discovered rs a resident /,
3f Spanish Fork, in the County Of v
Utah, adjoining this, a distance Of d
IS miles from salt Lake City. the q
.LiberaI'' organ still absuriIy. II
and foolishIy sticks to the II
lnmitigated falsehood. as will be fl
cen by this paragraph inits issue Of m
his morning: =,
THE hunt for Green threatens to be- N
ome As monotonous as the search for 81,
'harlie Ross or Stewards body. Ev- m
" few days somebody has heard Of ~,
his, that or the other person being a.
bic 10 tell all about Green.' and =.
hen this, that and the other person u
as been round, they don't know any, Ut
hing At all" in
Now, seeing that Mr.. Green j. 4 u
on-"Mormon" and a Liberal, ;, w
ut, A. itappears, an honorable one. az
le villainy Of washington outside 'ii'
'litical cffect-that he was sshlood- sol
oned' in 1852 must be apparent re- q
everybody with the one-thous- iui
Nth part Of the average honor. 'N'
or conscience. But the
as0n for the tenacity displayed in tina
ihering to this trumped-up murder hal
Sc is plain enough. 1t was the only pra
nguinary death penalty incident ern
.at could lie raked up, being in per
nted for the purpose. To have pro
rs solitary ghost vanish into thin par
{, 10y the appearance upon the anc
enc Of the assassinated man. in tur
osiantial material form, after a haI
Use Of p years from the date Of A {
e murder, is great disappoint- all
cnt. The Liberal, chiefs there sol,
re insist that he was carved ami stat
tombed by "Mormons. >, when he in :
Instant from them hut a three mes
irs' journey. The fact that they Il
j contend that Mr.. Green was J.
led indicates that they heartily sch
I devoutly wish he had been reli,
ubtiess that gentleman coprrat. it is
'tes himself at not being in posi- subs
n to accommodate them. that
We have already intfmated that or OF
idea Of reproducing Mr.. Green's b
davit once in while. rs occasion ton
;ht demand, would be somewhat conc
'taole 10 Us, in the line Of vindi- trutl
ng truth anu exposing trumped NV
antl-Mormon political blood imP'
iilng Munchausenisms. This Their,
= Is still retained and we there ticIe
at this point find place for the opin
ument: - criti,
E EElI OF UTAH, sioly
COUNTY or UTAH -. exec
illiam Green, being duly sworn play,
Il oath --,-. =,