Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1890-08-15
UNAUTHORIZED PUBLICATIONS.

IT is a common custom with
quacks, itineIant lecturers and pre-
prieiors Of small business concerns,
TO take advantage Of large assemblies
in the distribution Of leaflets.
Pamphlets and dodgers to advertise
their wares. As the feople emerge
from the buildings where the meet
ings are held, they have these prints
thrust into their hands and the
sidewalks are often covered with the
castaway handbills.
On Sunday last an individual who
desires TO attract public attention TO
himself and his theories, had dis
tributed among the people coming
out Of the Tabernacle some small
pamphlets containing notions he
entertains on what he terms
Astronomical, prophetic and his
tOrical signs We should have
taken no notice Of this but
for the attempt Of the vilest
sheet under the sun to fasten
the vAgaries Of the author Oi the
leafiet upon the Mormon Church, /"
and 10 draw therefrom a number IF
differences in the usual dishonest
style Of that utterly dishon0rable /
paper.
The writings Of the person who /
issueii this pamphlet have been Te-
pudiated in these columns, and they
are not only unauthorized 10y the .
Church Of Jesus Christ Of Latter
day Saints, but are in many respects |
opposed 10 its teachings. Yet the .
salt Lake Tribune represents the |
stuff set forth in this brochure As
coming from the Mormon
Church, and states that It was dis
tributed among the audience in the
raberuacle.' The two statements |
are entirely false. The Mormon" /
Church did MT put out this PAM
phiet,'' neither was II distributed
Eat the Tabernacle among the au-
dience." IL came from a person
entirely unauthorized 10y the
Church. and was handed out as We
have described, on the outside, like
= quack medical circular or other
cheap method Of reaching the pub
lie.
Therefore all the slurs and in
ferences and conclusions which FOL.
low the falscho0ds are uutenable,
aud marx the anxiety Of those who
.'l0ve and make 4 lie'' to fasien
upon "NI1rmOuism" n
IN excuse for attacking it, leaders
,nd adherents.
We take this occasion to repeat the
warming heretofore given, that the
Church does not endorse, or
approve or sanction the views
4 the writer Of these "as-
economical, prophrtic,' heais-anI
lorns variations and hyp Otheses, {
mi what he slys AMI does is en-.
irely upon his own personal re-
possibility.
Every man has the right 10 his
pinious, no matter how foolish they
nay appear TO Others, aud also the
liberty Of speech and Of the press.
But no one has the right to make :
he Mormon Church responsible s
or his private opinions or utteranoes. I
T 10 infer that the Church puts Z
ut" ideas AMI writings which it !
Ias publicly repudiatei.
ofcOurse the sheet that devoted
more than a column Of editorial
pace in twisting the notions cor
aimed in the leafiet TO iit on % the =,
Mormon Church, VIII not have !
he honesty to set the matter right !
efore the public whom it has sought q
nee more TO deceive. That would 4
e too much to expect. But We d
fish it to lie distinctly understood n
nat the Church Is not responsible ~
II the neutrality-suspicious. Of persons o
UNAUTHORIZED to speak in it, name. o
neither they lie delivered orally or e
lhlished in any form. "
There has been a grea; deal Of :
laiter isslei from the press, pur. :, :,
1rtinE to be Mormon in it, :.
init and tendencies, but for which =,
ie Church is no more responsible r
IAN it Is for the uttcrances Of it, ls
iemies. The public shoull under a,
and this and beware Of receiving ii
lything as authorized which j. in
Il officially sanctioned ami en- i