The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1902-10-03
HE APPEALS TO
HIGH COUNCIL
Editor Rydman Dissatisfied With
Bishops Verdict.
OWES FERNSTR0M APOLOGY
FIGHT BETWEEN SWEDISH NOR
MONS INTENSIFIED.

THE WAR of the Swedes precipi-
tated by Editor Rydman's writ
ings and cartoons in his paper,
the Utah Korrespondenten, has now
been carried to the high council of the
Mormon church for settlement. Wheth-
er or not the Swedish editor has vio-
lated orders of the priesthood, held up
his Swedish brethren to ridicule. and
caused a dissension among the Swedes
must now be determined by the high
court OF the church.
The bishops court. that sat so mani
weary nights taking evidence in the
affair. decided that Mr. Rydman was
guilty of the charges preferred against
him by F. s. Fernstrom, Mr.. Dahl
quist and others. The decision of the
court was that Mr.. Rydman should De
accommodated until he published in
his paper a signed acknowledgment Of
| his alleged transgressiOns and begged
! the forgiveness Of his brethren.
Mr.. Rydman asserts that the decision
was unfair; that he was the victim or
a plot actuated by prejudice, and he
has appealed from the decision to the
higher court for repeal OF the Ver-
dict.
Before the bishops court decided the
matter, Mr.. Rydman presented his side
OF the AFFAIR in a speech. In which he
scored his accusers and openly charged
] that at least one of them was actuated
by political reasons alone
Scored His Accusers.
In relation to the cartoons, to which
the accusers are alleged to have taken
said in his speech: -
Il have not denied that the cartoons
mean something. They do mean a
good deal; they mean TO show up TOOL
ish acts and to make people reflect If
they have ever committed such foolish
acts. They and all who these name
less cartoons Mt are, as have set forth
during the hearing, welcome TO take
them as intended for them"
In relation to the accusations that
Mr.. Rydman had stirred up scandal
he further stated: II have shown that
| my accusers' cry of scandal is not new.
but dates back as far as eleven years.
The word scandal is always used oy
people who see their wrong acts re-
! lated In the papers. They shun the
| light because their deeds are evil, and.
therefore, they cry scandal.
1.-THE evidence has shown that there
! has been a we'll laid plan or plot
against me by my brethren of the gos-
pei. / have undertaken 10 advocate a
separate Swedish organization in the
church for the purpose of building up
the Swedish members in the faith and
making them more active workers in
hag
who, for political and other purposes,
wish to maintain the so-called Sean
dinavianism.
He Blames Fernstrom,
"F. s. Fernstrom claims that the
only place where I can do no harm
is outside the church. He has. through
| standardization, become a city coun-
I Gilman. for the party that nominated
and elected him thought he was a rep
resentative Scandinavian, and he is
/ 10th to give slip of his beloved Scan
| dinavianism. The church is going to
/ help him, and the only way he thinks
/ he can be effectualiy helped is to get
me in safe place, where can do no
more harm, as he expressed it. His
| Christian-like spirit is evident-for its
/ absence.
My accusers tried TO leave me with
out a defense by trying TO exclude my
Witnesses upon shallow pretexts. A
letter was brought in showing that a
| sister was not in good standing In her
ward because her husband had not
| paid tithing and they had not taken an
active part in the ward; therefore, she
could not be truthful and her testi-
mOny could not be relied upon. And
one of my accusers brought 1t against
myself that my new bishop was not
] intimately or personally acquainted
with me. What shallow pretexts. But
| the accusers have. they claim. paid
tithing, and their wives and their chill
dren with them. and they take good
care TO be at the meetings where they
can be seen by their bishops"
Decision of Court.
| The bishops court, in rendering fits
| decision, says:
| Our decision is that the charge
! against Brother RyGnan has been
sustained by the evidence. and that he
be required 10 repair, so far as he can.
the harm that he has done.
''The most effective way Of accom-
| piishing this Is to do Il through the
channels by means OF which much OF