Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1904-03-09
UTTERLY DEPRAVED.

with its accustomed perverslty and
sophistry the Salt Lake Tribune has
quoted part of u sentence In the Deseret
News, concerning unpublished common
vices in Christian cities that are both
unlawful and brutal, and then asks;
"Are we TO understand, then. that po-
lygamy Is merely the Mormon substl-
tute for that sort Of thlng2 II not
where does the parallel come in?'
The answer Is, No you are not to
understand anything OF the kind, for
the reason that In the same article
that the Tribune has garbled the
News said; mark this. We make
no comparison between the evils that
abound in this Christian land that ave
wlnked at and oondoned, and the sys'
TEN Of wedlock revealed through the
Mormon Prophet, God Forbid
Therefore there is no parallel 10
come In" as none was drawn, We
made the distinction clear because we
anticipated some such devlltry as that
now resorted TO by the Tribune, for
that Is one OF Its old tricks. 1t was
never known 10 state an opponents
position fairly, particularly II he was
Mormon or touched on any question
relating to "Momonsm" That paper
Is utterly rcprobale and contemptlbl, In
It's course and policy and cannot be de.
pended upon In any statement Of fact
or argument IN controversy
As case In point rs to It's rc.lle-
ability read the statement It published
ON first page Of Tuesdays daily Issue
IN reference to the testimony Of Mrs.
Mabel b. Kennedy It said;
Her description Of Apostle Young,
who performed the ceremony was eX-
act, every effort Of Attorney Worth
ington for Senator Smoot failing 10
shake her on cross-eXamlnation'
Then read the following which Is In
the regular report from Washington
published in the same paper Of the same
date on the second page;
"sho could not Identify a picture Of
Brigham Young"
Tho witness became confused sev.
cral times under cross examination and
made some contradictory statements.
which for the most part she corrected
later when her attention was called 10
them by the attorney for the prescott
tion, She was unable 10 give descrip-
ton of Brigham Young
Now, notice the annexed paragraph
which appears IN the TrIbune's double
column FIRST Page, displayed leading
statement Of the Smoot case this.
Wednesday morning
From the testimony Of Mrs Mat.
thpWs u would seem that Mrs Ken
n,dy was forced into becoming plural
wife. She had asked to be allowed to
wait until she Was Is years Old but
Johnson and her mother would not
consent, ana she was sent 10 Arizona
and sealed TO Johnson"
Read the press report Of the case IN
oil the local papers Trlbune's included
and see Il there is anything that justl-
tles the statement we have copied, II
viii be seen that It IL falsehood "out
Of whole cloth" The exact contrary
appears In the press report, which
shows that both the girl and her mother
desired the marriage that Apostle Teas
dale infused to perform II when asked
10 do so by the mother. under the plea
that such marriages were done away"
That the girl went into Mexico with
johnson and his wife, voluntarily,
planned the marriage with them, and
that nothing was told to the person who
performed the ceremony TO inform him
that IL was a plural marriage
II the public want to know the truth
In relation to the present controversy
they should pay no attention to either
the specials or editorials In the Tr.