Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1890-11-19
ATROCIOUS "TRIBUSEn PALsR.
HOODS.

priesiiy rule which the News and
Herald have been permitted Of late to
publish. the Premier Of the Church
could no longer bear the deception.
and so boldly declared that the Nor
. mon people were bound to obey their
priesthood, that the priesthood were
authorized by God TO rule, and that
there were no other means OF getting
10 Heaven except through them. He
reasserted their old rule that the peo-
pie were absolut ly bound By them,
and gave the old notice that how
ever much the Mormon press and !
Mormon platforms might declare 1
their indeDendencs they had no slch |
Independence. Then The decrepit old |
President OF the Church got up and |
endorsed what the Premier had said, |
buI added that that rule only applied |
TO spiritual thing. and then declared |
that he individually had never /
advised any one how to vote 4
except II might have been his own
sons. Was there ever such luggleTy /
played upon an indulgent Nation be-
fore? The whole people are bound by
obligations, which they cannot evade,
10 implicitly obey a cerain priest
hood. That priesthood nOminaies
ticket. Il is sent out to the people
with 4 notice that that is the ticket
agreed upon by the First Presidency.
Is there any need Of a direct COM
mand for them to vote II? Has not
the obligation TO vote it already bsen
taken by the slaves? When viii the
miserable farce be stOPped?"
The foregoing is part Of an edl-
torial in Tuesdays Salt Lake Tri-
5uas. Everybody who was at the
Tabernacle on Sunday, and heard
President George Q. Cannon's dis
course, and everybody who has
read theaccurates synopsis Of it which |
appeared in Monday evenings
DEsEREr NEWS, knows the state
ments OF the Tribune concerning his
remarks to be absoiuts falls ehOods
and the very reverse Of his utter
ances.
This is a trick that the unprinci-
pied writer's On that paper have play
ed for years. First, they will re-
port the exact opposite Of an Elders
remarks. Next they will comment
upon the report as though it was an
undisputed reproduction OF his
words, Then they viii repeat,
month after month, the same argu-
ments % based upon the same will
full falsehood, and keep up the pre-
tencethat they are combating "Mor-
mOnism.3 Time and again they
have been exposed, but that makes
no difference in their contemplate
work; they presist in course which
proves that they are utterly desti-
tute Of manhood and without the
faintest spark of honor or decency.
Here is what President Cannon
said on this subject as reported in
the DEsERET NEWS and heard by
thousands on Sunday:
The Latter-day Saints would be
the most ungrateful and unworthy
peopie in the world if they did not
honor the Priesthood. But there
was a difference between honoring
the Priesthood, the authority OF God,
and giving away their manhood,
and 1Oing such things as they were
accused Of. No people on earth
valued free agency as did the Latter
day Saints; they preached il and
taught their children thai they were
free agents-free 70 choose and act
for themselves. They would not
bind a man 10y a single hair TO DO
something which his own free will
a aaaf NaT -. "A
Contrast that with the rawlings Of
the writer who fabricated the DELHI
crate misrepresentation above, and
say fsuch a creature is entitled to
an atom Of respect. President Can
non did-not reassert any sold rule''
or sold notice'that''th people were
absolutely bound" and there is no
such old rule rule or new rule in the
Church. Neither did the speaker
make any reference or allusion to
the NEWS or the Herald, ''ihe Nor
mon press" or the mormon plat
forms"
Tue aiiusion to President Wood
ruff is as indecenuy false rs the as
ssrtiOns concerning his First Coun-
selOr. He is not "decrepit," but re-
Dlarkably vigorous, healthy and &C.
tive. Every visiting writer for the
press who has seen and conversed
with him, dilates upon his hale APP
psarance and his bright mentality,
describing him as not looking to be
over sixty years Of age.
In refereuc. 10 the previous speak
er's remarks lie made no "ifs'' or
"buts." Abiding to the falsehood
that "the First Presidency told
every Latter-day Saint how to
vose,'' ne said:
Gle hal resided in this valley
some f0Tty-iOur years, and he could
safely say that during the whole Of
that time, 50 far Us he could recOl-
lect, he hai never told any mau
or woman how 10 vote II lie bad
told anyone, il had only been some
Of his own boys who might have
steAE4 ia AZ lAaEs uAL ne LlAQ ugA t.
member even that
Now read again the rant Of the
Tribune. How much "jugglery''
is there in President Wood
ruff's plain and simple state
ment OF fact? The same
creature that now attacks him
has charged, day after day, that
"every Mormon votes as he is
ordered by the Mormon Presi-
dent, " and on that falsehood bases
his Infamous argument that, there
fore ''every Mormon should be dis
franchised.'' If any ssMormonv
has been ordered to vote for or |
against any person or measure by |
President Woodruff, now is the time
10 bring him forward.
The statements about obligations
to implicitly obey a certain priest
hood" the manner nf making a
ticket and the notice that sit is the
ticket agreed upon by the First
Presidency" are all equally false
with the perversiOnso Of the speakers
remarks. They are made up for
foreign consumption, like most of
the rubbish that is daily dished out
for the readers Of that perpetual
libel.
And the manufacturer thereof
with that peculiar logic for which
he is notorious, iE a vain effort 10
prove that the speakers on Sunday
advocated something that was for