Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1900-02-01

from the Christian" world. That he
dld not mention plural marriage" as
untruthfully charged In the Tribune.
has been sufficiently explained and is
demonstrated by the sentences from his
remarks given verbatim by that paper
But the attack upon him is renewed
from another standpoint. He stated.
after quoting the remarks Of the Ap0s-
he Paul alluded to in this article. that
all the truth which had been revealed
TO this Church could not De publicly
promulgated with safety. This he
showed was because Of the opposition
which had already been met by those
principles on which he touched, and for
the maintenance Of which the Latter
day Saints had made so many sacr-
fees This furnished occasion for a
number OF queries and sarcastic insinu-
atoms from our carping contemporary.
OF course It desires TO know what II
u.s. It's curiosity as well as It's anlmos-
ity is aroused. The very fact that those
things were elassed by the speaker as
inexpedent TO explain at PRESENTS suf-
fclent 10 show that no answer win
come TO the !mpertinent question. The
Savior once gave some very pointed ad.
vice as to the care that should be taken
in reference TO pearls Of light and
truth.
The paper which has made desper-
ate effort TO misrepresent the remarks
OF President Cannon, wants the News"
to tell "whether the Saints have ever
been prosecuted for anything except
plural marriage" But with character
istic cunning It adds the words since
their coming to Utah.' President Can
mons reference to the prosecutions en-
dured by the Saints and the sacrifices
they have made for the principles re-
veoled through the Prophet Joseph
Smith, was not directed to the lmme-
diately present time. II went back to
the early days OF the church when those
principles We're first presented. They
caused a storm OF hostility from the
sectaries Of the period They were
fought not only by rdicule, inyectiye
and anathemas from the pulpit. but
with fire and sword, with rifle and
bludgeon. with prison and chains.
on Tuesday, November 6, 1898, Cen
eral John y. Clark at Far West Mo,
delivered a speech TO the Saints who
had been deprived Of their homes by a
bloodthrsty mob led by sectarian min
listers. in which he ordered them to dis
perse and never again organize with
Bishops, Presidents and other Church
officers, and in which he ridiculed and
denounced their doctrines and told them
that their leaders who had preached to
them would never see their friends
again. That their fate was fixed, their
die cast and their doom sealed" JOS
eph and Hyrum Smith and sixty other
men were held as prisoners, and the
massacre at Haun's Mill had already
been perpetrated
This was buttone incident in the his
tory Of the prosecutions which came
upon the Church, through the intoler-
ance and hatred OF Christian profess
sors who denounced the doctrines
enunciated by the Prophet. There was
no mention Of plural marriage" in any
OF the charges brought against the
Saints or their leaders. No such doc
trine was taught at that time nor was
It alleged against them. The spirit
that actuated the anti "Mormons" at
that time has ragged against the Saints
continuously ever since. with OCCASION
al lapses in its fury. II burns In the
hearts OF their enemies today, II not
manifested In the same fashion. II is
exhibited in the distortion Of their doc
trInes, the peryerslon Of the teachings
of their public men, and in the efforts
that are made to bring upon them pub
lie obloquy and, II possible, physical
force to crush them.
The Deseret News in taking up this
subject Is simply repelllng the attack
unjustly made upon public speaker
for the purpose Of placing deliberately
a false construction upon his utter
ances. We do not believe that such
attempts are approved 10y any fair
minded person in this community, no
matter what may be his views Of re-
ligion. They are shameful and with
out excuse, and ought TO be denounced
10y all lovers OF truth and peace.
Since the foregoing was written. We
have been supplied by the Church
stenographer with verbatim report Of
President Cannon's brief discourse, and
we publish It in full in another part Of
this paper. We need make no further
comment 1t speaks for itself In the
language Of an Episcopal collective say
to our readers; Read. mark, learn and
lnwardly digest"
BoER AND BRITISH.