Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1892-01-07
MIR. ELLIS VS.. TIE orEInuNE.o
lie Tries Hard Not 10 believe ia Total
Dcpra,ity.


But my experience with the Salt Lake
Tribune convinces me that II employees
creatures that are 40 near total dopTdU-
ny NJ to make the distance they have
yet TO fall impetceptible. For years
that paper has had nothing but villa
cation aud malicious inucndo for every
man or woman who has spoken or
written against the inhuman and un.
American treatment the Tribune clique
OF adventurous has extended to the
Mormon people. 1 happen to be the
only non.Mormon who has met that
scurrilous sheet on lis own ground and
whipped II. For this, Of course, am
an ever.present object TO excite its an
ger and draw Its venom.
For months and months II has gfa'
tuitously advertised me under many
names. such as "Mormon liar" or
"MormOn pcnsioner," or "mounie-
bank, - or "saucr krOut, or "Limbut.
ger cheese, Dor Observation-Disclosures"
and many more that | cannot recall.
All these tender notices and pet
NAMES have been pleasing to me, OF
coune, knowing, AZ | did, that thoy
were an acknowledgment Of the right
eousness OF my cause aud proof that my
work was successful.
Finding itself defeated In every of-
fort to to beat me as defender or tho
rights Of the Mormon people againet
Itself, II LAS now Appeared IN new
role. IL Ia now trying TO placale the
Mormons by manufacturing gross
fnsehood that / have attacked thom
and It will come to their defence.
Tnis marks the low cunning Of the
sheet, but Il makes me laugh just the
same. In itB issuc OF Monday last
the Ift6uno ssys asserted In
my lecture, Sunday evening: GIVEN
the Tribune, which was born a liar aud
couldn't help lying, could not lie as
moniaciously M they the .Aiormonsl
have done 10 him" tmy- vlil.
This state ment is remarkable only
for It's manifesto Ion Of tue caluminouH
art u provaricatlon.
After the lecture was closed, said
had promised the people musicand had
made my promise upon the assurance
Of another that | should have tue
assistance Of glee cluO. They had
failed TO come. | said that had been
tho first nou. Mormon 10 make n per-
sistout stand here for the rights OF the
Mormon leople, and, that, though the
Tribune had only last week repeated it,
old charge that | hal been "broughp
TO DO that work, the charge
was not true; that tho Tribune
| could not tell The lruth
IN anything relating 10 the MORMON
sit was born that way;'--that 81 had
worked monthe aud months md
months without money aud without
price, and when ] asked men calling
themselves 'Niormons' 10 come here
aud aid me lltllc'they had said they
would come and they arc not here.
Their action places me In the position
OF u liar before the people. ! leave you
to judge thotn aud cay oaly shame
upon them."
This had reference only TO the mem
bcn VI club who had said they would
come. II the Tribune per0n had any
doubt n 10 what said he had only to
consult me. That he did not and went
away and deliberately He'd IA proof that
my statement that the tribune could
not "tell the truth In anything relating
10 the Mormons-it wn8 born that
way'p--is true.
But there IL stlll more proof. a Sec
Ond paragraph In the iribHRo's screed
says!
"At the close OF the lecture Mr..
Ellis admitted that he had received n
letter Of excuse from the club anu they
faithfully promised 10 be on hand next
Sunday night"
There "a not one word Of truth ia
that statement II | had received such
letter would have most gladly read
1t 90 the people ~ being the best eX-
PLANTATION of my failure TO give them
the music | had promised as an In.
ducement for them TO attend. Here
sgaln ~ seen the 7ribUHo's method
with tie galumnlous Rri OF fAlsohood.
a fter the meeting, little mustnche
with n boy attached came 10 me calling
itself "tho musical critic OF the
Tribune" IL wanted 10 know "whaps
the matter with-gn
There Is nothing tho matter with
him. suppose the club II getting
ready Tor tue concert Tuesday night
and could not come, but II placed me
IN u very unpleasant position and
said what did. The club owed II 10
me 10 either come here or give reason
for not coming. That Ia all there IL TO
II. Mr.--has told me since the lecture
that he spoke To Mr.----- In the after
noon, asking him u the CLUB would
be- at the theatre, and was Informed
that II would not be able 10 70, but Mr..
----- did not come In until had begun
my lecture, and consequently had no
means OF knowing anything about the
matter. Vish you this was NIL said
to the tub musical critic OF tho ri.
6nnel would see that no misropresen-
,ntion OF this matter goes into tho III.
6mgc."
What he did, apparently, was TO go
TO the Office OF the Tribune and secure
the publication ofthe paragraph quoted
above, asserting that | had "reeeived
n letter OF excuse iTom the club.D IL
he did that he Ia litter candidate for
u Reform School than for any position
NJ "crllic" among the musical people
OF Salt Lake.
] shall make mention Of my Tribune
critics ut the Theatre next Sunday
evening, and now Invite the etad Of
that sheCt and It's stockholders also TO
seats on the stage.
CHARLES ELLIS.