Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1901-01-07
THAT STORY FROM HYRUM.

Readers Of the Deseret News VIII re-
member that, a short time ago, a viru-
lent and libelous letter, signed Mrs.
Mary NJ. De wore, from Hyrum, Cache
county. was copied in our columns from
the Pittsburgh Daily News. We sub
mitted the statement 70 some reliable
citizens OF that place. and published
their affidavits showing the falslty OF
her charges,
They were sufficiently outrageous and
absurd to bring their own refuta,ion,
10 people who know anything
about the state OF affairs in
Utah. but there are multltudes
OF people who are as little in
formed about the "Mormons' as they
are Of the inhabitants OF Mars, while
there are many thousands who have
been led TO regard the people Of Utah
as barbarians. and a different race to
the rest Of mankind. We therefore
took some pains to find out whether
there was such a person as the signer
Of the letter. and whether anything had
occurred In Hyrum to give the least
foundation 10 her stories, and excuse
for her pretended alarm for her safe
~.
II has been satisfactorily shown that
there was nothing In them. They were
evidently manufactured to arouse SYM
pathy and obtain pecunlary aid In the
East. and may be classed with the old
hctions. such as danger from the
Danites;" preachers having to 80 into
the pulpit with a Bible in one hand
and a revolver in the other" and
other monstrosities with which sec
tartan hypocrites regaled eastern audi
onces. and gathered in their dimes and
dollars.
We are pleased to see that the Pitts
burgh News has copied the afildavlts
which we published, thus acting fairly
in this controversy. It is mistaken,
however, in lis notion that Mrs. De
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the Latter-day Saints wonderfully"
such foolish tales only cause a smile
or an indignant expression, here. IL
was for the benefit OF people In Penn
sylyania and other places east where
the story circulated that we took any
notice Of IL. And we now refer 10 It
again that we may express our graft
ficatlon at the impartlality OF the Pitts.
burgh News,
We may add that a gentleman who
lives in Hyrum. and Is a near neigh
Dor TO the author Of the sensational
tale Of violence and expected murder
recently called on us and emphatical-
~ corroborated the afiidavits We print
ed. and stated that the non "Mormons"
az that place were greatly chagrlned at
the course pursued by Mrs. De We're,
and declared she had ruined the work
performed by the minister and his as
sociates in Hyrum. and the good I'M
presslons made there by them after |
long cuolNss
or course. from a Mormon stand |
point. we have no sorrow at the result. |
While We would not throw a straw
in the way OF the sectaran preachers
and teachers, who seek to make con-
verts here. and who especially aim at |
leading our children away from the
faith Of their parents at the same time
when by the blunders and falsehoods
OF their own malicious aids, their "ket-
lie Of fish is overturned and spoiled
We have no tears or lamentations az
the catastrophe.
The Pittsburg News and other east
en journals may rest assured. that all
such stories as that concoeted IN Hy-
rum to malIgn the "Mormons," are
either gross exaggeratlons or inten-