Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1900-09-25
GEORGE Q. CANNON.
KARL G.. MAESER,
ABOUT "MoRMoN AGGRESSION"


This Is the time Of year for news
paper reports about the Union Of
Church and State in Utah" and the
secret power Of the Mormon Church
over the people who compose lie mem
bership. This is a presidential year,
and opportunity is afforded opponents
OF the Church and political partlsans on
either side, to claim that the Church
authorities viii "order" the Nor
mons 70 support their respective can
didates. SO We are not surprised 70
find a long editorial IN the Boston
Transcript on this subject. containing
the customary errors and betrayIng the
common Ignorance Of eastern editors on
Mormon" AFFAIRS.
The Transcript refers to two dis
patches received In the East, one from
Utah, the other from Arizona, and thus
explains their purport:
The Utah dispatch announced that
the Mormon Church stood ready 10
swing the ballot Of Utah In favor OF
the Republican party, the Arizona dis
patch declared that Arizona would
shortly be a sovereign state, and the
relation between the two Is simply this:
The Mormons, having sOlemnly prom.
lsed 10 sever the union Of Church and
state, are breaking their promise In
Utah, and they are preparing 10 break
their promise In Arizona where their
numbers are already large enough TO
assure them the balance OF power the
moment Arizona attains Statehood. In
deed, II Is the Mennonite element In
Arizona that has most 70 gain by
emergence from Territorial control"
This Is followed by column OF COM
ment, most Of which Is mere conjecture
founded on the statements IN the two
dispatches and ringing In the cyerlast-
ing lament about. the menace Of
polygamy" The Transcript admits
that the actual facts concerning the
Mormon movement are exceedingly
difficult 10 get at" Yet # swallows the
two dispatches, as though their trans
mission by telegraph established their
authenticity, and rendered worthy Of
fun credence that which originally ives
o matter Of doubt, and therefore news
that was unreliable at the point Of
Inquiry became a disclosure OF actual
facts" on reaching Boston by wire The
situation here on this point is thus
described by that paper:
salt Lake City is the recognized Brig
hamite capital and II Is % Salt Lake
city that one naturally COOS for infor-
nauohi but once arrived IN that center
ui the Mormon empire. one discovers
lhai be must sitt evidence and analyze
testimony with infinite caution One
hears the tales OF four quite distinct
classes First there are the Mormons.
Who lie about themselves; next the
Mormon sympathizcrs (called Jack
Mornons), Who repeat the lies OF the
N"fmuns then The upOstates. who lie
apout the Mumons and finally the
GENTLE opponents of Mormonism Do
paNF known ds 'NOrmuu-caters'D }. who
repeat me Hes of the apostatcF Nor.
mon, ihl JACK Mormons deny the union
q! church ana state. Apostates and
~ oin1n-e1ters affirm H. Whom shall
one be.Ieyet'
The question would naturally arise in
o mind $50 wen Informed CD OH to the
division Of classes IAN liars. by
the BY according 90 ,ha Transcripl-as
TO The source % thr dispatch from Utah.
and no matter from which class it en-
anated, how much reliance would be
placed upon A. considering the kind Of
people that compose salt Lake society?
A. 81.