The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-02-19

the editors of the Salt Lake Tribune.
/ They are so innocent, SO guileless, so
! harmless themselves, that they do not
think that anybody would do anything
wrong They are remarkable for in
nOcenee- Why, a child might deceive
them-that is neutrality-suspicious. they
are supplied with something that will
scandalize the characters of the Nor
mon community. Then they are easily
deceived Very easily deceived. indeed
So this Red Hot Address was a can
ard. They were very much deceived.
They even went so far as to say that
they were really imposed upon by some
person who furnished that address for
publication, and they made an apology.
What an apology il was, All apology
FLOR an apology. Let me see what kind
of an apology they made for this Red
Hot Address, fabricated out Of whole
cloth. Here is a quotation from the pa
per of which 1 am speaking:
= The case of the Red Hot Address
has been cited, which was corrected as
socn as the managers of this journal
found they lad been imposed upon
Here is qualification 10 that apol-
Ogy quoted from the same sheet:
There was not a thing in that bogus
sermon which has not been taught in
the tabernacle harangues.
What do you think Of an apology of
the fabrication, and the apology is
worse than the first falsehoOd.
Il will give you another sample apollo
gy for something else, goodness knows
what, that appeared in that innocent
sheet Here it is:
g BY a mistake a jot appeared in the
Tribune yesterday. which does not re-
fleet the sentiments of any owner or
director of this journal. 1t was, too,
as Objectionable in manner as matter.
1t was altogether wrong; its publica-
ton is a matter of pain and mortifica-
ton to us, and we grieVe sincerely that
it ever found it's way into the Tribune
Can you tell to what that reders2
What predicament does that leave you
and me in, ladies and gentlemen? 1t
leaves you and me in this dilemma,
that we must apply that apology TO the
entire sheet, and you must do that in
order 10 cover the ground.
When the elders go abroad they have
a great deal To meet. For instance, 1
will explain what they had to encounter
in western and middle Tennessee, where
the elders who were slain on Cane
Creek were laboring- What was the
situation before that horrible tragedy
was contaminated? Everywhere they
went they had presented TO them the
Red Hot Address. published in this
city by the organ Of the conspiratOrs.
1t was specially handed about and cir
culated by a Baptist preacher named
Vandever of Hohenwald. Lewis county.
1 have the facts here thOlding up let
ter in his hand) giving names and
details from one of the survivors of the
massacre on Cane Creek-Elder W. II.
Jones. 1t has been said that there has
been no evidence of the Red Hot Ad-
dress ever having gone to Tennessee.
Not only was that Red Hot Address
there. but Elder Gibbs, who was slain,
and Elder Jones. who survives, pre-
scented to this Baptist preacher whom l
have named a refutation of the SANDER
Gus fabrication. in order that he might
redress the evil that ne had accom-
plished by its dissemination among the
people. and which had inflamcd the
minds OF the pOpulace To such an eX-
tent that they were prepared largely
by that statement or alleged address
pHrporting to have been delivered by a
Mo mon bishop, to shed the blood Of tbs
elders, and they did ii; and the blood
of innocence is upon the skirts of those
who perpetrated that infamy. The au-
thorship of an indirect cause of the
murder is now traced home TO them;
they cannot relieve themselves Of it,
have seen no reason TO withdraw
the facts stated by me in the Salt Lake
theatre on the evening of Sept. %, 1854
they are irrefutable. Neither have
had cause to change the deduction
made from the premises they furnish
1t is logical.
JOHN NICHOLSON.
oil 1900