Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1901-12-17

PROTECTION FOR OUR ELDERS,

II
Dispatches from Washington, D. G.
this morning, Indicate that some steps
Will be taken for the protection OF
Mormon missionaries In the Southern
States, Georgia has been unpleasantly
prominent recently, In furnishing In
ctances Of mobocratle violence which
are disgrace 70 that State, because
I the law has been trampled upon with
|impunity and without redress to
1.-THE victims or punishment to the
guilty criminals, We believe. however,
that the Governor Of Georgia is strong
" opposed to the lawlessness com.
planned Of, and that he has endeayored
to protect the Elders In common with
other citizens but he appears to have
been powerless because Of the failure
OF the courts to deal out Justice and
punish the offenders.
President Ben r. Rich, of the South
ern States mission has been active In
his endeayors to move upon the author.
tiles Of the State Of Georgia 10 institute
proper action In the premises, and not
having been successful In that dlrec-
ton. he has gone to Washington, and
with the aid Of Apostle Heed Smoot
|and Senator Thomas Kearns, has APP
pealed to the United States attorney
general. Particulars of this application
will be found In the dispatches. The
notable feature Of this transaction is,
that the attorney general win send a
letter to the United States district at
torney OF the district where the out
RACES have been committed, and It is
found to be legal and proper, the fed
eral courts viii take UP the matter in
which the local courts have neglected
TO do Justice.
II appears that prosecution has been
impossible Of success In Georgia, be-
cause number Of the mobocrats COM
planned against were members Of the
grand jury before which the case was
presented, and also prominent people
|of the district favored the unlawful
measures taken against the Elders. AS
is usual IN these matters, the ministers
OF sectarian churches have not only
taken the initiative in the assaults up-
on our missionaries, but have aided In
thwartlng proceedings against the
criminals. II these outrages were
Traced up to their primary causes, it
would be found that they sprang from
this city. Preachers Of christian
churches here send forth falsehoods
about the Latter-day Saints, their
doctrines and their purposes, and these
utterances from the pulpit and the
press inilame the ignorant, the SUPER
utitious and the intolerant, and lead TO
the shameful deeds that disgrace so.
called civilized communities.
The particular case to which the at.
tentlon OF Attorney General Knox was
called was that Of Elders B. f. Stewart
anu L. +. zundell. On the night Of
September 25rd. an armed mob of from
thirty to forty men surrounded the
house where they were staying in Hast
county, and demanded the preachers
10 save trouble with their host Mr.. q
!. shlrly, the Elders decided to 20 with
the mob, who took them into the woods
and five brawny rufIians lashed them
with buggy trace, taking turns IN tho
whipping Elder Stewart received t,an
ty-fye stripes and Elder zundell az.
teen They we're ordered to leave The
county They walked eleven miles and
We're received kindly at the house Of !
friend. VI "
IN August 10Th, Elder Levi Nelson
and his associate in the ministry on.
eounlefed a mob in Ware county
Georgia which was organized to break
up a meeting at Milwood. a portion .,
lne moo held the Elders prisoners in the
woods While the others 81 the gang