The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1891-02-10
PEE WEES TRICKS
How His Latest Action is Viewed
by Ellis.
COMPLIMENTS TO THE BIG FOUR
"Meaner and More Malicious Lies Were Never
Uttered"-A Farcicial Ending that Should
Have Been Otherwise.
To the Editor Of TIE HERALD.

seen no reference to the points [ wish to
raise is my plea for hearing now.
When the movement to condemn the ac-
ton of the New York ''pictur" paper for
its malicious attack upon the Mormon peo-
pie was brought up in the city council it
was met with a hearty response from the
chamber of commerce and the real estate
manipulators. Drawn by the apparent
earnestness of the movement, [ attended
the meeting called for the 29th ult. in the
chamber of commerce. The disposition of
that meeting was very decidedly hostile to
the aforesaid New York paper, which has
only nominal publication Office in Chicago.
(The paper is product of the "Bible
House, in New York, and that fact ex-
plains the whole matter). At that meeting
a committee was appointed to prepare a
statement which should be presented for
the signatures Of the governor, the Utah
commission and the federal officers in
general. of the territory The men named
for that committee impressed that meeting
as being men determined to DO the work
well. The statement they presented to the
aforesaid officials has not been published
We do not know, therefore, what their work
was. The papers, however, have stated
that
THE GOVERNOR EMAsCULATED THE STATE
MENT
and made it to suit his own views and then
signed 1t. His statement was signed by
others including the Liberal officers. The
committee has therefore put itself on rec
ord as being satisfied with the statement
made by Mr.. Thomas, the governor That
statement is open to criticism, and pro-
pose to criticiSe Ii.
The position taken by the New York
paper was in substance that the Mormons
are now rebels and traitors. The position Of
the New York paper was endorsed by the
Salt Lake Tribune as being correct. Mr.
Thomas, the governor, is part owner of the
said Tribune and hence we must infer that
it voiced his opinion. With this under
standing let US look at the statement he
made as against the offending New York
paper.
The Tribune said the governor gave
tform'' TO the protest. He says: Gentle
men, the articles you submitted to me
which have appeared in the recent issue of
the illustrated journal are an
nounced by that journal to be a reply of the
Mormon people to that portion of the mes
sage of the President of the United States
referring to Utah affairs"
Mr.. Thomas, the governor, has been in
Utah a long time. 1t is his boast that he
has the best Mormon library in the coun-
try. If the boast Is based on fact the gov
York paper pretending to be the work of a
Mormon who was in prison with Joseph
Smith at the time of his assassina ton, are
a lie from beginning to end, because the
men who were in prison with him were
buried long ago. Knowing this, why did
Mr.. Thomas the governor say those articles
''ARE PLAUsIBLY WRITTEN"
and leave the matter so open that the pub
lie could not know from his statement
1E-ha ha hplj how tEyar n
Mormon who had been in prison with
Joseph Smith at the time of his death OF
notl We have a right to expect candol
from the governor of Utah. II he cannon
be candid he has not the qualifications
necessary to fill that high Office well. Why
did he not say he knew that the men who
had been in prison with Joseph Smith were
all dead and therefore the articles in ques
ton alleged to have been written by Nor
mon who was in prison with Joseph Smith
when he was killed were false, were fab
rication and a forgery: That he did not
shows that he desired to have the Mormon
people bear all the odium cast upon them
by the New Y ork paper, and in doing that
he wrote himself down as man unworthy
of the respect of the people over whom ht
has been placed as governor.
Mr.. Thomas, the governor, goes on to re
produce extracts from his reports to The
government to the effect that 1.-The china +
is unsurpassed, the material resources ar
unlimited What, in the name of common
sense, has the climate and the material re-
sources of Utah to do with this malignan
lie that the Mormon people are now in
state of incipient rebellion against thu
United States. Was that so elegant a
literature that the governors vanity led hir
to reproduce 1t. Or was he trying to throy
dust in the eyes of the people here that b
might blind them to his sophistry! Hi
additional statement that life and propert
are perfectly safe' had no excuse for tn
making when he wrote that report. AS ia
as the Mormon people are concerned lif
and property have
ALWAYS BEEN PERFECTLY SAFE HERE.
If Mr.. Thomas, the governor, has 18th
best Mormon library in the country u
person knows this fact better than ht
Why does he seek to convey false impress
sion: Is it because he is part owner of til
aforesaid Tribune, that has for nearly twic
ten years been the open advocate @
the destruction of the Mormo
people because they would not
driven the sixth time from their homes?
so, then our governor is not the man who's
hand should be permitted to formulate an
statement as to the real condition of Z tai
MIR. Thomas, the governor, proceeds
refer TO a still later report made by him I
the general government in which he say
he ''took occasion to speak of the resource
and developments of the territory and
predict an era of great prosperity" VIVA
/ ask again, was that to do with the state
mept of New York ''pictur'' paper tn;
the Mormon people in Utah are now read
to open up rebellion against the govern
ment of the United States! Is M
Thomas, the governor, an imbecile or doc
he take il for granted that the Mormc
people are too dull of comprehension to III
derstand himl
He goes on to say There is no part ,
the unicn in which life and property a.
safer than in Utah" That is true. Tn
has always been true, with the sing
reservation that Observation-Disclosures has
times past been, to limited exten
handled as the Missouri states and Ca
fornia handled it. That Is to say, there hi
been less Vlndlctlveness displayed
BY THE MORMON PEOPLE
against the roughs and toughs who ha,
crowded in upon them in the character
thieves and thugs than has been man
Tested by any people west of the MISS
sippi in the last fifty years. If NJ
Thomas, the governor, has 1.-The be
library on Mormonism in the country''
knows this to be true, else he has not b
come familiar with his own library"
The governor proceeds: ~ join with VI
this appointed committed in protestil
against the injustice done TO the people
the publication of the articles referred to
But not one word has he said to the effe
that the Mormon people have been mi
represented and villified, not word I
has framed his statement in such wise tn
1t shall go forth as a tacit agreement wi
the New York paper that the Mormon.
are in a state of incipient rebellion again
the United States and that they are owe
powered by the present governor. NeUer
greater or rnedTer lie lDds uttered The Mo
mon people are the only people in d