Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1892-06-23

power; this defamation OF a city. For
shamoir
The nonpluesed "MormOn" sermon
manufacturer and distorter sprin - this
point;
Again tho NEWS repeats the assertion
thai this address was clrcuI aiod all oyor
the United States, and especially In tho
South, whore numbsr. OF Mormon mis-
sionarles were lab'rIng. and that Il 20
innamod the minds ot the populHcc Of
Lewis county, Tom, that In thai county,
whore a number Of Eder' Woro prcpar-
ing to hold divine services, an armed aud
masked mob broke into he house aud
cruelty murdered four persons. ThoNEws
ha.no aud ncvcr has had, tho siigh'ot
evidence hat ono man In The house had
ever .uon the TribUHc"
This isst quotation embodies another
mistake ca. That cred Hot Address"
was haniod about In the locality
where the massacre occurred, ant
wherever the Elders went they were
confronted with IT, II was specially
used ami circulated by Baptist
preacher named Vandever, Of Howru-
wald, Lewis county, Tennessee. He
read II 20 the people and made II n text
for his anti" Mormon" sermons. a
request wss sent TO Naudever by John
IL. Gibbs, one Of the victims Of the
massacre, aud William II. Jones, a
survivor Of the tragedy, nov living in
this Territory, but 80 far as known the
rabld Baptist paid no attention to the
solicitation for him to correct the In.
Justice I. which he had been a party.
Following IL an extract from letter
from w. II. Jones, published shortly
after the massacre occurred.
This yillainous. slandcrous fabrication
was circulated over the country. Parson
vandoycr worked up prejudice against
us la that section by giying It Tho "lIod
Hot Address, wide publicity, and by
his pretended ercdcn CO TO the falschood,
causing great excite mont Elder Gibbs
and sent by mail to vandcyor an OK
posurc oftho address IN question, but he
did not show 1t to anybody that We know
Of.
This proves that the NEWS has had
evidence oil the circulation Of the West
address Ia the noigLborhooJ where the
massacre occurred.
We will give one more sample Of the
mis- AXES Of our cotempoary. Our
readers will agree that II Is peculiar
one;
Gle says the editor Of this pspor stated
In a committee In Minneapolis that II tho
Mormons Ind not boon afraid to attack
him ho would hayo boon killed. because
Of his opposition to them. That Ia alio-
cclhor false. ia roply to an inSolont
assertion by one OF tho Mormons present
In that commit 90, tina, tho fact that tho
editor OF this paper was alive was proof
OF Mormon forboaranca, he did say.
! You would have killed mo long ago n
you had thought II worth tho troubloi
you thought 1t would cost you more
eventually than IL was worth"
This Is singular reasoning, xhiblting
the fact that the editor Of our innocent
contemporary II much more adept at
feAthery word.psiuting than journal
is,ic polemicp. lie denies the truth.
iulncss Of u statement and concludes
by proving It's correctness. For In
stance, he denies that no
STATED In committee In Minneapolis
that " tho Mormons had not boon afraid
to attack him he would have been killed
because Of his opposition TO Ihom."
He Immediately admits saying this
In committee;
"You would have killed. mo long ago
n you had thought 1t worth the troublci
you thought II would cost you more
eventually than It was worth"
Ifthere is any difference between the
statement which Is denied and that
which is admitted, 1t Is 70 slight as not
to be visible to the naked eye.
when the editor asserted that there
ever has been any disposition to Kill
him, on the part Of the people he has
10 often aud 50 outrageously mallgned,
he knew he was guilty Of Tribune
mistake, which means something vii.
fully ami designediy done for u
purpose.
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