Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1889-12-05
WICKED AND SCANDALOUS.

ITAPrEARs that Mrs. Angie New
man is again on acknowledgements,
lecture stump, and continues to
wickedly defame the Latte--dav
Saints by making statements she
knows to he false, rs they have
heretofore been completely ex-
ploded. Among these Infamous
fabrications is the story about an
incestuous marriage, the facts of
which she claimed to have discov-
cred at the Utah penitentiary.
The groundlessness Of this infam-
Gus SANDER was fully exposed by the
strongest kind OF official proof.
which was placed before a Congress
sional committee before which this
perverted woman made the abomin-
able and untruthful statements. We
can only account for Mrs. Newmau,s
pertinacious course in continuing to |
reiteratesuch unjust and foundation
les utterances on the ground Of
her having been thwarted i'm n
scheme, whose object was for
her TO control the manipulation
OF an appropriation made by Con-
Sress for the establishment in Utah
CT a benevolent institution. Her
course is that Of a disappointed
woman. She recently delivered
characteristic lecture at Ann
Arbor, Michigan, and we find
in the Rcgisser, published
in that town, letter in 70
'ponse written in defense of his
'eople, by a Utah boy, Benjamin
fluff, Jr., Of Provo, who is at In.
University there, pursuing a course
Il studies. We annex the follow :
ng abstract from his communica. {
ion: 4
"The lady says that the Nrormons :
re allowed by their leaders To pso /
one but church publications. MANY n
ubiishing houses both east and ves+ n
m bear different testimony. Tbon. 0
'nds OF dollars are spent every wear 5
the purchase Of books. salt lake =
lily has more, and equally as large n
ook stores rs Ann Arbor. S.booI h
ooks are prescribed by law and are ii
Iose that are generally used through o
II the United States. The facts arc u
at the young people in Utah. like :
any Of those in the east, are too li,tIo N
cHned to read theological works. Il
The lady also accuses the Mormops il
being an incorporate peopIe and Al
teaching their children from the IN
ldle mp 10 drink whisky. The laws -.
the Mormon Church strictly pro- .,
bit intemperance OF all kinds as
en- in their Doc. and Cow, n. % p
Iere Is, indeed, too much drinking OF
en- among the Mormons. but tina, pl
y are not the depraved people rem. 81
iented by the lecturer. the following az
icles VIII show: ~
Mrs. Emily Pitt Stevens. editor ., in
Pioneer, says: "a
Utah is the wisest and hes. ,,o- ce
led OF any large section OF tho nao. w
In the United States. In Great Sol, eh
he City there is less Of rowdvism NE NE
lnkenness' gambling, idleness w,
II. conspiracy against the peace Of GU
iety, and crime generally thar on
re is in any other city OF the same ter
'ulatiOn in the country, if not on he
globe me
u. Miller, formerly editor of the on on
aha Herald, writes: 90.
To the lasting honor OF the Nor No
n people and system, he it said that ign
twenty-five years such machines ord
moral infamy as whisky shops can
lotries, farobanks, and all the at y
liant forms Of vice and iniquitv.
totally unknown in Utah. y
ne Court records Of salt Lake Citv IA. .1ll
he year lSS6. show the following rni,
SITS and convictions OF Morrnons
Gentiles: For prostitution, etc. y
mons o, GentIles sc; drunkenness, on
Mormons q, Gentiles 5as: grand Will,