Truth. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1901-1908, 1905-09-30
PEET AND THE INTERMOUNTAIN
CHRISTIAN ADVOCATE.
Editor Truth:


utterly irresponsible character is SIAN
dering the Christian missionaries of
this state. l try to keep track of the
newspapers and I have never seen
false or slanderous statement against
the Christian missionaries of this
state. If the Intermountain Christian
Advocate will be more precise in its
statement and tell what this so-called
slanderer has said and in what paper
it was published, they will find that
no real Christian missionary has been
slandered. The Advocate says "The
Christian missions have been and are
still the true friends of the Mormon
people and have aided materially in
all true progress of the state" and
that the (Presbyterian) church is con-
tinually inducing people to settle
here" "The Congregational, Meth
odist and Baptist churches are also
engaged in the same good work"
The above statement / will admit,
is true in regard to the First Congre-
gational church of this city and the
Phillips church is not waving the
bloody shirt-as it did of yore. But
with the Presbyterians and a greater
portion of Methodists and Baptists 1t
is absolutely false. On page 1 of this
Intermountain Christian Advocate, is
the following: "Cursed as this por-
ton of the country is with a devil-in-
spired and man made religion backed
and supported by every conceivable
earthly lust, it is nothing less than
pitched battle which is presented"
The socalled Christian Advocate rep
resents the above churches and claims
to induce immigration to this state.
Who would want to come to Utah af-
ter reading and believing the above
falsehood? Do people want to immi-
crate to a state that is cursed and
where the majority of the people PAM
per to every conceivable earthly lust?
There is hardly page in any copy of
this Intermountain Christian Advocate
but what rails and slurs at this state
and it's people. On page six it praises
Marion Bonsell, the queen of SANDER
ers, in her anti-Utah articles in
cheap monthly paper. The very title
of the story is vile falsehood. Will
the editor of the Intermountain Chris
tian Advocate mention a Mormon wo-
man tragedy? Here are some of her
statements: "That almost, If not as
many, plural marriages have taken
place within the past five years as in
any five years since 1885," Here is
another: "The social curse, the po-
litical bondage, the absolute autocracy
of the priesthood, the hatred of the
Gentiles the ambition to hold reins
over the United States government,
the sensuality of the religion, the fear
some oaths of the secret temple"
strangers coming to visit Utah are
deceived" "The horrible condition OF
domestic life." "Their saddened
lives" "The truth is concealed"
"The Mormon church will kill a mans
business and ruin woman's social
standing" etc., etc.
Yet this Intermountain Christian Ad-
vocate, this oracle of the Rev. Knock
ers, says: "The article marion Bon
sell's) is moderate and calm in all it's
statements adhering strictly to the
truth and withal written in the spirit
of love and sympathy" Marion Bon
sells love as we'll as that of the Rev.
Knockers, is the same kind Judas had
for Christ or Brutus for Caesar or
Benedict Arnold for the United States.
Anything that casts reproach, any
thing that retards, anything that caus-
es bitter feelings, hatred or Islander
on Utah or stigma on Utah's wo-
men and children and hinders immi-
grafton, this oracle of the Rev.
Knockers is ready to take up, nurse
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