Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1890-08-14
CONTEMPTIBLE ANTI-"H0RNOX"
LITERATURE DENOUNCED AND
THE SAINTS DEFENDED.

CONIEhPIlBLE ANii-"hORMON'
LITERATURE DENOUNCED AND
THE SAINTS DEFENDED.
THE following correspondence
from the pen OF DR.. ;. II. Allen,
resident physician Of the Maternite
Hospital, Baltimore, Md, Is self
explanatory. IL was rendered to
the editor Of the Baltimore Sun,
who, aciuated doubtless 10y a desire
to fi1at in the popular anti-"Mor-
mon" current, Published only
small portion Of it. Dr.. Allen i
Z from Mount Pleasant, Saupete
County. He graiuateI with high
honors from the leading medical
university Of Baltimore and was
rendered the important position he
now fills. We take pleasure in
giving place to his communication,
in which he makes an intelligent
defense Of his people-the Latter.
day Saints:
/ To he Edsor ofHe Sun:
In your issue Of toiay is a short
article under the heating Of New
Publications. - which contains sew
eral erroneous and unjust state
meuts. i. insults ami ISLANDERS
large body OF American citizens
who have chosen % adopt the faith
Of the Latter-day Saints. Thomas
Gregg has written 4 book about the
MOrmOus or Lailei-lay SAINTS, and
called Il The Prophet Of Elmyrl-''
You say Mr.. Grggg .'livei near
NauvOl during the Mormon settle
ment. He disiikes M1rmJuism, yet
strives % be just. lie has, therefore,
those qualities q experience amt
fairness which contribute 10 give
u the best history OF the Church Of
the Lliter-day SAINTS, its leaders and
it, policy that We have" John Doe
lived near a community Of Catholics
or PrgshyteTiaus; lac hates their re-
ligiOn, strives 10 BE- just, AMI j. there
fore fitted 10 give Us the best history
Of Catholicism or Presbyterianism,
their leaders and policy. livery in
telligent reader OF the Sun Will in
diguautly denOuure such thin, silly
and worse than childish argument.
IL l. hanily possible AFTER reading tine
Stui for two years for me b believe
that such a great anu dcscTveily
popular paper rs Il l. would endorse
any history whose chief claim 20
merit and accuracy is that il was
written by a hater Of the subject OF
people written about.
Informed people today, a. you
well know, are in possession Of too
many instances where histories
have been dashed or from bitter,
shallow pens, guided 10y bigotry anu
ignorance and too often m-rcenaTy
motives.
Such histories bury the truth be-
meath heaps Of stupid and often un-
readable trash, infiame the passions
and misinf0Tm the minds OF uniis-
eliminating reaiers. kiuJleuunucCs-
sarily the fires Of hatred and set in
motion the cyclone Of religious strife
AMI contention.
The spirit Of the nineteenth cen
fury demands reliable and strictly
accurate histories whether they treat
Of the I.atter-day Saints, Me;hOiists,
or treat Of America, England OF
Germany, the North OF South, or
whether they treat Of Joseph Smith.
Martin I.uther, John Wesley or
Robert q. IngeTS0ll.
Peter the hermit l. long since dead, .
the holy wars or Crus1des which he
did much TO in8ugurate by his
anatical and earnest preaching
come down 10 Us rs sumo Of the sad I
est monuments 10 mans ignorance
during the dark age.
There are crusades today aud have I
been during the past hundred years,
which, n not on such a large scale.
are n aimless and unreasonable a. |
were those which cost the los OF /
millions Of men in trying 10 drive /.
the worshippers Of Allah from the .
tomb Of Christ- The present cru
sade against the Llttcr-day Saints !
will, in the not far distant future,
be seen In it, true light and will be /
looked at much as we look at the /
Crusades OF the year 1000
and 1850 4. ID. Last March over at |
Washington was talking with a |
judge who hal spent several YEAR,
in Utah a. n member u the Utah
Commission, created by the Ed I
muuds law Of lSS3 3. With his |
commission from Congress in his /
pocket. he went 10 that Territory.
and found that much OF his informs |
alton about that strange people up
to that time was sally out Of Joint /
with the facts, as il had been CLEANED 1
from books written by bitter enc
mics and transient visitors to the
"MOmOns." This Judge adopted a
novel hut wise method OF putting /
himself in possession Of tie facts I
about these much misunderstood /
and maligned people. He made 1
several journeys into different uarts /
Of the Territory, going by team. |
where there were no railroads from
one settlement or village 10 another,
and taking care to stop not /
at hotels, where such existed. but /
he ate and slept each night in the /
homes OF prominent MOrmOns. who /
would gladly give him conveyance |
to the next town or place OF inter
est. He said he found the kindest |
treatment and hospitality in all his |
travels and that the people were /
temperate, virtuOus and strictly |
Christian in their ways, and paying /
much attention TO the education Of /
their children.
He, like quite n number Of OBJ |
serving travellers with whom / have |
cOnver-ed, testified to the utter IN |
reliability Of most Of the existing .
literature on this subject.
The "History Of the Mormons's /
by +. y. Tullidge, n scholar who /
has lived in Utah ever since 1850 |
and that found in Bancroft's late /
classical history Of the Pacific States /
and Territori are the only tao his |
tories by nOa-Mormons that know /
Of as being reliable. Scor,ss OF books /
on this subject have appeared before |
"The Prophet Of ElmyTa,o such /
as ''AIormonism Exposed Slight /
years Among the MsrmOns,'' ssFe-
male Life Among the MOrmOns,'' /
'sTell it AL, - ''Hell ON Earth, - etc. |
Most Of them TEEN with lies 30 loud /
that olly the stupidest people believe /
all their contents, some Of them pro-
claim the depraved aud mercenary |
spirit Of their authors and nearly all