Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1891-02-14
A ROLAND FOR An OLIVER.


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Your issue Of February 18th con.
tained m "open letter. from myself to
the "allegcd aud actualr owners and
editors Of the salt Lake Tribune In
answer to a scuffilous attack upon me
by tina, paper. Friday, February 49,,
the aforesaid Tribune contained an
editorial In reference 20 my letter IN
the NEWS. said that one Of the
Tribune men, who had made very
vicious report Of my lecture on "'li to
TO-" told me that he had TO make his
reports to suit his employers. The
IflbuHc editorial Of the 18Th Is headed
Ole Lice" That means me evidently,
for Ia the llrst sentence am referred
10 a. "thc roitcn.heartcd Ellis" The
editor then proceeds to refer to my
statement Of Ia reporter 10 the effect
that II he had reported my lecture as
he would have liked to do, he would
have los, hi. position, and says-'srhat
much Of II we brand A. entirely false,
as false A. the heart of Charles Ellis Il
by nature and by education, and shall
hold 10 that belief until h. tells me " he
Tue reporter was who made such n state.
mcnt TO him. 10 does not amount 10
much, tor everyone who knows any.
thiug about the Tribune aud how Il
has always been run, knows that no
reporter ON THIS PAPER would be per.
mi,led to remain Va the employ OF the
IioUio one minute II hc over gave n
ialsn report " auythiug.D
That "a roll A. ! read that In the
silence o. fplay's lovely morning up
on the North Bench hucicd
could hear tho Renii Of the
mountains roaring with uncontrollGblu
ihushter. The dear old granny, does
he not Know that every man ami wo-
man IN utah knows that II that state.
ueht were true, " II were applied 10
his paper anu itA iaid proyaricatnr
zone minuto. " tho IfibHo would not
appear ngnln until it bad found new
crew nom 'dcvil" down Ia "man,g-
ingelitorn and "space."wTltlng HOl.
listCE
IN Iefepnco 10 the 7fl6imo editors
ohAileng, that give the name Of the
reporter alluded TO. | wish % fay that
gave tho name In my open ittttfV
hud you cut II Oub. used the name
ngnin In q iltat DRAFT o! this commuui- |
Gallon and nsAiu tho name was cut out /
and yod positively refused tn publish the |
name ON the Hf0und that II would. be |
sp INJURY 70 nuWapapcr man. That |
~ tle reason the name does not 40. |
pcir' anI ! put II down ~ u rcinark- |
able manifestation ~ Mormon charity, |
ID.
that rupurtcr hnR upon your fOrhrar. |
ancU. That what | gave a. the Ian.
Euagc OF that reporter u true, the 1
editor Of the Tri5,uc knows a. VOL az
10, because hr knowt, without my 1
naming HIM, Just who the man WIS,
and hc keeps him beca use 0f his known
ability 10 mlsfcnfcuUnt anything and
everything that u Mormon, or Just 10
the Mormon people.
Then the Tribune editor proceeds 10
say; "IhH best IOssihle caica.ife OF
Chaflv. Ellis u 10 publish hima ~ he l.,
for la his nativu stats hs l. .imniy a
moral aud intellectual mOnatro.ity.V
How does the Tribune editor arrive al
his c0nclusionsg Why doe. he uoi
give some evidenced Who IL HIS nu.
thorliyg | really vnjoy the above cor.
rusrati0n Of the opium led genius OF
the Tribune. 10 put. mo Into the list
OF many famous aud worthy men. The
same hand that wrote tho niluvr wrote
Oh. BFuadhead "a mnlAnn and the
offspring of "bandlttl;n called him "a
hrute aud hack;unfd," II wtotr
Guorgc Iicl,unr Curtis down--"n liar
and knave or a dwelling idiot, - ga
sounded 10y instinct," ex senator
Mcdonald &c called "a male nrosti.
tute, IAN "old hired procurcr." Brlya
Lockwood was written down hy this
same Tribune edit0r'a female m0ustro-
eity," Now o. has written me "a
moral aud intellectual mouslrosity.D /
am placed In such good company that
l eau only rejoice that | have vi last
struck tue Tribune pirate below the
watef-line.
rhe Iit5ime proceeds; ole tEllO
came here with u tainted reputation.
he was picked up by some good men |
and clung 10 until thoy were convinced
thht Ills heart was us rotten rs rotten
mnrkefel" Those 'good men" must
have been afflicted with moral catArrh
70 the cNtunt OF brain-slough.
Ing, or they would have
the "rolten.mackrrol,i
eiiluvium. Wer they dogs that they
wanted something t. roll on? Who
are those good men" and how did
they "pick up" Ellis? Half n dozen
hlfcd II. II. Underwood 10 lee.
Iufe In salt Lake n month. They
islrd him 10 recommend a man who
might be Induced 90 remain several /
months 10 lecture. He recommended |
me-, having known me for over twenty
years. Those atheists asked me 10 leo.
'ufe and having heard mo wanted =
more. | was not an atheist and was '
considered 20 FAR weak, but Olherw iso
Mas reported 10 be "a gold mlne.p |
Nas hired 10 lecture three months NJ n
iNel remuneration. | was told TINT.
while they all hated the evangelical
'hurches, II would not do 10 apltch
ntO them," because Everything not
'iormon u Liberal, "hut could hecome
power by giving the MormOns "hell.p
NY iOutth lecture was on Utah.
ave tho Mormons credit where they
Isserved lt and spoke OF the uttor I'M.
possibility of having anything truly
lnerh III such q curious cOnglOmef.
tion ~ Utah Liberalism" They
allied me u JacE-MOrmon. They re.
used 70 Pay me and yc, owe me saG7.
Inc Of them tool, 500 from me 10 INV
,r the hall, kept II six months ana DO.
Jared he had TO pay for the hall him.
eI. IL thtrtioEc appeArs that Belva
M ! are "monatrusiiicsV BECAUSE we
ave never denounced the Mormong.
ne tribune knows Of "Iiberalsn who
re a. guilty IN any Mormon "cohabj
: the pen" II II IL so pure In heart
nat II would not keep lying reporter
one minute" why does II net have
icil men exposed aud brought to Jus.