Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1900-01-31
WHEREIN 1T WAS "uNrRuE,"

some OF the comments Of the eastern
press on the Incorporate attack made,
by Mr. lands OF Indiana, upon the
Mormon people in particular, and the
State OF Utah In general, during the de-
bate on the question Of exclusion or
expulsion in the Roberts case. The pa.
per in this city which has furnished
that gentleman and other antl-"Mor-
mons with patches OF Islander, says;
The News Is very savage In rs
attack on Congressman lands Of In
diana"
The neseret News has not said any
thing against Mr.. lands personally.
nor reviewed his TRADE with half the
sharpness and severity Of the criticisms
made by eastern journals. But we are
requested 10 show wherein any Of the
charges made by Mr.. lands are un-
true. We will Therefore quote a few
sentences from the official report Of his
remarks In the Congressional Record:
Il claim and shall contend that Mr..
Brigham II. Roberts Is not entitled %
a seat on the floor Of this House and
should be stopped at yon threshold be-
cause he has violated the condition
| predicated upOn which Utah was adj
mitted into the American Union"
That statement Is untrue, as any
body may demonstrate for himself by
reading the condition predicated." as
1t APPEARS In the Enabling Act and
adopted In the State Constitution, Mr.
Lands said further OF Utah
"Ah. Mr., Speaker, that star is a false
star; II does not shine with the bril-
| liancy and luster OF It's sister stars Its
| glitter Is that Of cunning and deceit, Of
treachery and fraud. II stands for
| crime and for violation OF the most
solemn covenant ever made between a |
Territory and the Union"
"The time seems 10 have been consid- |
cred peculiarly appropriate, and the cir |
cumstances In every way favorable for |
the dominant element in Utah 10 drag |
forth their cherished institution, and |
ask this government 70 dignity II and |
bift ~ hhNlVhep NdHNtlpHs
1T came by stealth. sir. It came by |
stealth, but 1t will be hurled back |
boldly and In the open day by the
righteous indignation OF the American
people
All those statements which we have
quoted and which the Tribune approves
and defends. are grossly untrue. Fur
Their on In his speech, Mr.. Lands made
this charge:
THE Danltes, as pitiless a band OF
outthrOg,s as ever handled the glitter
ing steel. carried on their murderous
work Of the Church, but the missionary
battled on. the blood atoncrs silenced
IN death the voice OF apostasy, but the
missionary worked on; the government
practically withdrew from that valley
Of signs and tears, admitting It's inabil-
ity to cope with monster so thorough
~ intrenched amidst those mountains
but the missionary. with courage that
now seems sublime aud a fidelity that
TO this day IL an inspiration, battled on
In the fear Of God and for the love OF
humanity
II that is not a repetition OF "the stuff
which years ago was poured forth from
antl-Mormon sources, coupled with the
old vituperaton," what is It? Is It not
transformation" Were not all the
alleged facts repeated in the gentle
mans speech furnished him by ennis
sarles from this city, with which the
paper here which now defends him Is
in sympathy? But he went on further
to say. in reference TO the Republican
candidate for Congress in opposition to
Mr.. Roberts:
Alma Eldredge was nominated as a
Republican presumably upon the 81.
Louis platform representing, as our
friends on the other side would say,
vast aggregatiOns Of consolidated
wealth. Mr. Eldredse was not a
polygamlst, but Mr. Eldredge was
Dante. Mr.. EldrHdge was Blood At
toner. Mr. Eldredge had murdered his
man as member OF that infamous in
strument Of the Church for the extlr-
patton OF npostasy. was indicted ar
raigned for trial. and escaped c0nvic-
ton simply because the witness against
him had In the meantime been killed"
We have already denounced this as.
sault upon MIR Eldredge as a libelous
outrage for which there is no excuse.
Coming from a member Of his own
party too. 1t Is all the more indefensibe
for II has not even the apology Of par.
tlsanshlp to support f. Not only is
II false as regards Mr. Eldredge, but al
80 as TO the Church OF which he Is a
member, which was the real object OF
attack. in the food OF abuse that poured
from the lips Of the member from Indi-
ana. After repeating several messes Of
scandal culed from the columns Of our
local contemporary which admires him
so much, he said,
In the face OF all the facts here de-
cided Il surely cannot be said that the
people of Utah have kept faith with the
people OF the nation"
Does not that sound exactly like an
echo from the pages OF the Salt Lake
Tribune? No wonder that paper can
say nothing but eulogy Of his harangue.
Here is another sentence or two OF
the same kind and from the same
source; he speaks OF.
Those women In Utah who by bru-
tai blgots have been forced 10 believe
that their celestial eValtation win he
IN proportion as they choke down the
instructive attributes Of refined woman
hood and minister TO the rotten and
depraved notions OF a corrupt and lust
full priesthood
one more passage from this rh0do-
montade will be- enough
I'VE should stop the gentleman from
Utah az yonder threshold turn him
back because h. and his people have
yiulated the condition prpdicnte1 upDn