Truth. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1901-1908, 1905-09-30
PEET,s REPLY TO THE TRIBUNE.


published an editorial endorsing a lit
Valley and a review of the Smoot
case. The Tribune saw it and imme-
diately sent to me for copy. 1 ex-
pected to see in the Saturdays Trib-
une a dog baying at the moon editor
ial on it; but it did not appear Then
/ thought they would surely say some
thing in the Sunday issue, but, no.
The oftener the Tribune editors read
my little booklet the more convinced
they became that they could not an
swer it. 1t was to them like a dog
chewing on a bone, the more they
chewed the harder the bone seemed
to become; or they were like the
quack doctor who was called on to
become; or they were like the quack
doctor who was called on to treat
case of fever. The doctor said he could
not cure the fever, but he could throw
the patient into fits and cure him of
that. The editors of the Tribune
worked on my booklet from Friday
night till Wednesday night then they
published lot of stuff that was not
in my booklet at all, that they thought
they could answer for a monetary
consideration. Brother Wishard did
the same thing in trying to answer
some of my articles in Truth"
found it was necessary in getting up
a prospectus on Bear River Valley
to expose the people who were SLAM
dering Utah and hindering immigra-
ton to this state. DR.. Paden is one
of those slanderers. He stated in the
Philadelphia Press, to injure Utah
and hinder immigration, that Senator
Smoot was an enemy to the govern
ment and had sworn to avenge the
death of Joseph and Hyrum Smith on
this nation, and to teach his children
so to do. I offered DR.. Paden $4,000 if
he could show that he told the truth
The Tribune is another slanderer, for
it has stated many times that Joseph
F. Smith, as president of the Mormon
church interferes with the politics of
this state. I offered $1,000 if it could
be shown that Joseph F. Smith since
he became president of the Mormon
church, has dominated or interfered
with in any way the political actions
of any individual or party.
The wording of these offers of re-
WdTuS ulu uOJ sui the Tribune. IL
said l was bluffing. If it will suit the
Tribune better, / will change the
above offers of rewards and in fact
the entire eight offers in my booklet
to read as follows: 81 can show by
positive proof (proof that would be
accepted by judge and jury that Dr.
Paden told a traitorous falsehood in
his above statement. / can also show
by positive proof that the Tribune
lied when it stated that Joseph F.
Smith has or does interfere in poll
tics. If l cannot prove my statements
will pay all the expenses of the in
vestigation. If l can prove my state
ments the Tribune must pay the ex-
pense of the investigation" The Trib-
une did not try to secure any of my
rewards or answer any of my state
ments, but it consumed almost one
column in it's ribald editorial in slur-
ring the Hon. G. e. Loose, one of the
many who guaranteed | would make
good my offers of rewards. While the
Tribune said my offers were bluffs
and bar room methods, it tried to
copy them in a grotesque way, and it
took a whole column of this anti-Utah
A. p. A. Tribune tc do it. Here is one
of it's propositions:
IF the Tribune will prove that He
Der j. Grant made the admission, be-
fore the young men and young women
students of the University of Utah,
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