Truth. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1901-1908, 1905-11-25
ARE FOLLOWING DR.. ILlFF
AROUND.

I'm an interview with reporter for
the News last evening, Dr. Tiff, now
lecturing here and who was formerly
superintendent of the Methodist mis-
sions in Utah, stated that at the pres
ent time more polygamy is practiced
in that state than at any former time
since the manifesto was issued against
it by the Mormon church. He also
stated that the crime of polygamy
is spreading to adjacent states and
territories, corrupting public morals
and dishonoring the American home.
Speaking of the Smoot investiga-
ton, Dr. Tiff stated that it has been
announced that the case is to be re-
opened as soon as congress opens, and
he is informed that the ministerial
committee has more startling evil
dence to present than that which has
already been heard.
"He says there is a strong anti
Mormon feeling growing in Salt Lake
City, demonstrated by the crushing de-
feat of the Mormon ticket by the
American party at the elections of last
Tuesday.
"A representative of Utah lands is
following DR.. Tiff around scattering
circulars denying what he says about
polygamy and other conditions there.
This agent was at Kingston yesterday
and distributed a book which con-
tanned categorical denials of every
thing that was said against Reed
Smoot in Connection with his presence
in Washington"
The above is a sample of Dr. T. G.
lifts ISLANDERS in this section of the
country. l attended some of the Doc
tors lectures and he threw aside his
usual TRADE and falsehoods on Utah
and the Mormons. Last Sunday morn
ing Mr.. w. H. Capwell and myself at
tended DR.. lifts lecture on church ex-
tension. This lecture was delivered at
the First M. e. church, Kingston, Pa.
In the midst of his lecture he hap
pened to discover Mr.. Capwell and
myself in the audience. He stopped
short in his lecture and looking
straight at us, said 'he did not intend
to discuss the Mormon question" and
he did not, for he well knew that If
he told his usual blood-and-thunder
story about Mormons and Utah he
would have been called down then
and there. / understand he gets a
nice fat salary of $4,000 per year and
liberal expenses. He would not, of
course, want his job jeopardized by
a real estate man, who would surely
have brought him to time for any
falsehoods he might have uttered. AL
though DR.. Tiff did not dare to say
anything about Utah in his lecture, he
quietly gives an interview like the
above, which I will answer tomorrow
in the Wilkesbarre Times. DIR. lifts
lectures are simply series of repe-
titions of his former lectures, minus
his Mormon racket. A person who
does not know DR.. Tiff would be led
to believe by his lectures that II IL
had not been for DR.. Tiff there would
have been no church extension west
of the Missouri river, and that Sher-
man would never have taken his won
derful march to the sea If it had not
been for a dear little drummer boy
by the name of Tommie Tiff, who had
given his sweet little heart to God
way out in Ohio before he enlisted.
The Christian Herald on November
Sth contained the following by a SIAN
derer who was ashamed to sign his
name: 81 have lived fifteen years in
Utah and have had an opportunity to
form a fair opinion of matters here
IL is my belief that there Is not a