Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1905-01-25
IN IT'S OWN TRAP.

~ HNiuh'l VI lAAhAAA4 ANNl'NN'h'fAN N'N'
zens Of Utah. many OF them non" Nor
mons" have recently testified before
tho Committee ON Privileges and Elec-
tlons o. the United states Senate, that
after the issuance OF President Wlford
Woodruff's manifesto, and when the
movement for the admission Of Utah
into the Union as a state was united
ly set ON foot, the situation here was
like this:
"The Gentiles in Utah had fought
long enough. and they were grateful
for peace They deplored anything
that looked Ike a renewal OF the old
strife. For years they kept their
mouths closed and their eyes shut per-
hitting men to go on living with their
plural wives, showing nelghborly re-
spect and consideration, and believing
that without special conformation OF
what was known as unlawful cohabita-
ton they could very well leave the
situation for time to remedy
The words VIC have inserted above
convey the glst Of their evidence, But
Il is quoted from the editorial columns
of the local morning paper that has
been throwing mud at them, every day
for making just such statements ms
that. The sheet that assalls them de-
olares that, Every word Of the fore
going quotation from the Tribune Is
true" That is just what they testi-
fled, Every man and woman who has
lived in Utah Tor any length Of time
understands that those are the facts
IN the case They have been reiterated
by the newspapers OF Utah, Idaho.
Oregon and Nevada, ana by many in
Colorado and Wyoming, during the IN
vestigation that has been had into the
doctrines Of the Mormon" Church and
the doings OF number Of It's leading
authorities, under the guiae OF an In
uulry into the right of Hon. Reed
smoot to q seat in the Senate Of the
United States.
Yet the paper from which the quota
tion Is made is engaged In Wlllfylng
berating and blackguardng the Wit
nesses who have given that testimony
and IN heapng upon them It's choicest
collection of blllngsgate terms
with which lbs readers are disgust
eddy familiar
Funny isn't IT, as well az
Indecent The testimony Is true. but
those who uttered lt IN Washington are
20 be eyerhstingly condemned by
friends at home for their rinnkncss.
And why? Simply because It ls CON.
sldered favorable to the gentleman
whom the Republicans OF Utah chose
10 send to the United states Senate.
1t seems II was an right for the libel
lous sheet that is doing its utmost to
wreck this commonwealth. to lnadycr.
tcntly express those views at home. but
st is most decidedly and terribly wrong
for those prominent citizens TO give
voice TO them abroad, IN the editorial
columns Of the daily defamer every
word OF II is true" But on the lips OF
the gentlemen undcr oath It Is different
and ls denounced as "a vicious, de-
prayed and coVardly testimony" be-
cause "givcn by some Gentle witt
nesses at Washington" ana Is likely 10
aid the choice Of his party and state
10 retain his seat
As 10 the ladies who We're hum
plugged into making nnues of them
selves and signing a silly telegram to
Washington, they were not accused OF
anything. Nobody singled them out as
condoning' or "toleratug" polygomy
or anything akin TO IT, There was mo-
need Tor them to bristle up their
feathers and cIuck about "condoua-
ton" or liberation" or "cohablta-
ton" And coming down TO the solid
truth, although they We're not specially
accused OF doing, or negectlug, or APP
proving anything have they not In
common with the great body OF this
community colncidod with all that Is
set forth I'm the paragraph quoted
above, from the paper which stirred
them M TO deny tho very statements II
contains? That paper now says;
so far us the uttemnce Of the .Trl-
hume is concerned, the News knows
10 10 be- true. 10 knows that Geutlles
did seek to avoid kulvodge of neigh.
borhool onaus, 90 the extent that they
involved polyglmous uohubitution, and
particularly such cohahitation by men
with the wives Co whom they were
married previous 90 1890"
Why certainly That is what the
"News' has maintained am along But