Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1904-01-18
soME POINTED QUESTIONS.

SOME POINTED QUESTIONS.
Now, Mr. Editor want to say a few
words direct to this Ministerial asso.
citation. want to ask them lew
| questions. What right have you T.
call yourselves the loyal and law-abid
ing citizens OF Utah2 What right hay,
you to thwart the Will Of the people
of Utah by trying to unseat senator
who has been fairly and honestly elect
ed? What right have you to claim
superiority Of morals and actions over
the people Of this state?
HISTORY REVIEWED
Let us review some OF the actions Of
some OF your members and preachers
| Of this state. First | see the name OF
one, a murderer who outraged ana
murdered two girls and burned their
| bodies In his church, and now he IL
| a fugitive from justice. Second an
aduleterer, who committed the crime
I'm the.church where he preached, anu
| he is also now a fugitive from justice
! Third, an embezZlcr who collected
money for a church In Mercur and put
the money In his pocket and skipped
| TO parts unknown Forth a plagiarlst,
| who delivered one of Or. Guards ser
mons in this city as his own produc-
| lion. Fifth, swlndler who went TO
Pittston. Pa, and sold building lots In
| a suburb of this city, called Jordan
| Green. low marshy piece of ground
between Eleventh and Twelfth South
and Ninth and Tenth West. He put
the people Of Pittslon in on the ground
door. me said. and sold them $500 lots
Tor 5000. He sold four TO one man,
and got his money II these lots that
this preacher sold were put in the best
real estate agents hands In salt Lake
today, they would not bring $40 each.
sixth. another who sold building lots
on the beautiful shore Of Salt Lake,
near Saltair. He sold these lots 10
people In Nebraska for $50 each, SlO
down and 81 per month, Seventh, an
other who, in company with notorious
dead beat preachers from the southern
states. put his church ana friends S62,-
600 in debt lie also published a licen-
tious book with an obscene picture on
the first page. His action became so
gross IN his congregation that they
erased his name from the church
and sent him back east, After
leaving Utah he was appointed
pastor of a church In Indiana,
and there he so grossly IN
suited a young married woman one eve-
ming that he was run out Of town before
morning. and IN he summer OF 1903 he
assisted your association by lectuing
against Utah and getting signatures
against Senator SmOot in Pennsylvania.
Eighth, another who found that many
families from Cairo, Nob., were moving
TO Bear River valley, wrote TO farm
err at Cairo, warning him about coming
TO Utah He said he was preaching
here, but was going TO leave. because he
had two daughters and II was not safe
TO keen them In Utah, on account Of
the "MOrmons." Ninth, another who
was suspended from his conference In
Ohio for misconduct, and he had not
been I'm Utah long before he said with
much yigor, that "Mormonlsm' and po-
lyglmy was q dark and helllsh plot,
and yet It was about one calen ar
month that kept this preacher from
hcing a polygamist. Tenth, l.. Lei
Itch.
INJURING THE STATE.
Now gentlemen, do you not know
that any other society with such rec
0fu MOulU ne lltNlt W VIC blVh'H W.
by Tho police and It's charter destroyed,
and are there not more In your society
today that are doing all they can to
lnjure the state? You have a member
that exhibited on the streets In this
city not long ago, an anonymous lead
pencil written letter. signed "a Nor
mon" This letter contained q mess
OF vile stun about this state and her
people. and this preacher said II was
true.
You have another member who made
his braCs when he returned from Eng
land last fan that he heard some MOP
mon" missionaries over there pfaislng
Salt Lake and her people, and after this
missionary was through speaking that
he told the people that other or the bad
side Of Salt Lake. Is this preacher a
who. ON Nov 1G 1903, told the people In
Brooklyn. n. Y, that the "Mormons'
I'm Utah were so bad that they VIII
have to be subdued by the spillIng OF
the blood Of human beings. You have
another who wrote 10 q religious paper
I'm Cincinnati. O.. for publication, warn.
ing tourists and settlers visiting Salt
Lake that the pin drop and other
tllIlEN lllfN raw HllA lANNIh w Wv 49,
crnacle and on the streets were only n
fmsy gauze TO hide the inQuty back
Of H. You have another who recently,
I'm Washington y. c., locked arms with
Preacher Mcmillan n man who Dragged
about carrying a revolver, who said
Senator Smoot was a polygamlst and
that many Utah "Mormons' were muir
derors.
ISLANDER CAMPAIGN
Now, gentlemen, yUu claim that your
society Is for truth and for the up
building Of Utah and her people, II
thut is so, why did you send pamphlets
TO the eastern states with this clause
on them. THAT the foul crime Of po-
lygamy In Utah was spreading to the
adjacent states and territories, cor
ruptIng public morals and dishOnoring
the American home?" You knew that
the above was false when YOU sent II
out for distribution and why did your
association send to the Rev, w, S.
Bartlett Of Chicago on January %,
1902, a circular which said IN part,
THAT Mormon prlestcraft inyades
property rights lts varied Vices are
destructive to good morals that the en-
tire Mormon system was q return 70
the blacklist heather sensuality.' You
certainly knew the above was false,
and an Injury 10 this state,
MORE QUERIES,
II your work in the east against
Senator Smoot was to be fair why did
you allow r. G. lllff to represent YOU
when you knew he said In lecture In
Chicago: THAT Mormonlsm In Utah
waa menace 10 civilization, and po-
lygamy Is practised TO greater extent
since Utah became state than be.
forc?" DO you not know that he said
while representing your association
against Senator Smoot In New Jersey
last summer, that he had Reed smoot
arrested once In Provo for disturbing
his meeting, and when he was accused
NJ qtph "a pppaa fnIqohOO1 no said he