Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1890-09-26
THE LATEST "LIBERAL, TRICK
EXPOSED.

WE learn by Telegraph that the
Delegate from Utah has addressed a
Communication to tne Washington
EDeHiag Star, the most popular
journal published at the Capital. Il
is as follows, aud appeared in that
paper last night, with the Official
Declaration Of President MILFORD
Woodruff:
Editor OF the EUelHEg Slar:
There have recently bee n publish
ed in yo1r paper extracts from the
last report sf the Utah Commission.
telegrAphed from salt Lake in advance
Of It's receipt by the Secretary Of the
Interior. These convey the idea
that polyga nous marriages are still |
being entered into by tho MOrmons, |
and that the leaders OF the Mormon
Church continue TO teach and enforce |
that doctrine and practice upon the |
adherents OF that faith. The object |
OF this and similar dispatches about |
the practice Of polygamy among the
MOrmOns is well understood here.
There are pending before Con-
gress two or three bills. which,
il enac:ed into law would
disfranchise every member Of
the Mormon Church by prescribing
test oath such as no Mormon could
oonscientiously subscribe TO. This
proposed legislation would not affect
he polygamou us Mormons, they are
already disfranchised-can neither
vote, hold Office, nor sit on juries-but
IL would apply TO the non-polyg1mous
MormOns. the young men OF Utah
who have never violated the anti
polygsmous laws and have taken oaths
that they viii not do 50 in the future,
who have always been loyal TO their
country and its-iaws. They are TO be
disfranchised because they viii no,
vote TO suit the radical anti Mormon
ring at salt Lake City. The minority
wish TO obtain political control Of che
Territory, to manipulate its affairs in
their interest, 20 collect and expend
the peoples taxes and to shape its des-
tiny. To do this all the non-polyg-
Amous Mormons, the sons OF the hardy
pioneers who discovered and settled
that arid region, must be disfan-
chissd for no reason but that some
few members OF the Mormon Church
believe and have heretofore practicei
Polygamy.
knowing as do that the charges
lately made against the Mormons Of
Utah are false, and that such state
ments arc injurious TO them and dan
gerous to the best interests o. the
Territory, 1 take the great pleasure Of
handing you = declaration Of the
President Of the Mormon Church
which ! have Just received by tele-
graph from Salt Lake. and Request its
publication a. an &C. OF justice 10
much maligned and prosecuted people,
and as complete refuiaiion Of the
malicious statements heretofore pub
Iished. Very respectfully,
JOIN T. CAME"
The purpose Of sending from this
point g1rblei extracts from the Re
port OF the Utah Commission, was
clear to thinking people in Utah
when the papers containing them
reached this city. IL is correctly
defined by Delegate Game in his
Pungent letter To the Washington
Star.
Before the document was filed
with the Secretary OF the Interior,
1t was published in mutiiated form
IN Salt Lake, snl the dispatch fienl
found in it ample opportunities foI
the exercise Of his peculiar forte
Remarks male 10y the Com mission
rs published, appeared in distorted
form 10 eastern papers a. dispatche.
from Salt Lake City, dated Septem'
Der l7th. language was thus aitri
buted to the Commission which
they did not Use, and sentences
were given without the explanatory
contest. All this was to stir NJ
anew the Ignorant prejudics agains'
the "Mornons7 prevailing il IN,
country, and form an excuse FOL
certain Congressman TO move Tot
the bringing forward OF the meas
ures thaC have been sleeping, dc
signed to colsummate the then
Of the Church property anl
to deprive the law-obeying "M1r
mons" o! the righs OF suffrage
The immediate object in view 3,
the carrying Of the November elec.
ton. The recent exposure o.
"Liberal methods at the polls. tbs
probability Of the prosecution o.
some Of the scOundrels who hav,
helped to cheat honest citizens Out
II their votes, and open the way FOL
non-residents to east Illegal tailot.
for "Liberal'' candidates, aud the
likelihood that further frauds viii b.
rather dangerous to the perpetrators
make the "Liberal'' prospects ia
November very dark and unprom,
ising. Something desperate had {.
be done in order to bring the accom-
plishment Of the "Liberai'' scheme
within the bounds OF possibility.
1t had been fJndly hoped that on,
Of the Acknowledgement bills wonld
have been pushed through Congress
in time to exclude allth Mormon
votes from the ballot box. But th,
shelving Of these measures and tn,
Widespread dislike among Congress
ment 10 such drastic expedients
made the conspiratOrs in this city
sick at the stomach. The Utah
Commissioners report furnished 4
probable antidote. SO it was cullec
and clipped, and such parts Of it n
suited the plot,ers and made then
feel more comfortable, were wired
and the Associated Press helped L
scatter the scraps Of misinformatior
throughout the land.
Take these sentences rs examples:
The Commissioners say that the
practice Of pOlyEamy is rather on tas
increase than the decrease aud that the
doctrine is taught in all the Mormon
Churches"
That is from n Salt Lake City dis.
patch OF Sept. 18th in the Chicagc
INetcs. The annexed is from ths
Cleveland Pam Dealer and has the
same origin aud date:
"The commission believes that morS
than eighty plural marriages have