Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1905-07-28
MISSIONARIES
ALTREATED.
Elders Chester A Pulley and VIII
liam K Mcneil ShomsIully
Abused,
DRIVEN OUT Of SAUQUALAK.
Constable and Other rrOmIoeat CHI.
eos Leaders Of Trouble, unrc.
bukcd by Mayor.

Elders Chester G., Pulley ana william
r. Mcneil, travelling In the Mississippi
conference were brutally matreatcd ON
July !, at "A place called shuqualak
Elder Pulley, IN rehearslng the affair."
Gays while NOorlng IN shuqualak
NoNubec county, Elder Mcneil and |
were refused entertainment seven
times on july T. and as Il was getting
somewhat late, ana the probability OF
our finding entertainment not very en-.
courasIng we stayed overnight IN a
schoohouso IN town, ana having visited
most Of the families there we went out
ana laborod In and around Cookevlllo,
uhtll the afternoon OF July y when we
came TO shuQualak Here we got our
mail nnd Visited number OF the few
families we had not visited while in
town before, We then began 10 ask for
entertainment Amor being refused
I'VE times we came To the homo of the
constable, Tom Mcclure, We asked
him for q place 10 lie down, ana ho
promptly refused, telling ua II We ala
not get out of town shortly we would
he ln The ditch with the negroes, with
bal and chain on our feet told him
we mad harmed no one, had broken no
law OF the country, ana had a right,
according 10 the Constitution OF the
United states, 10 worship God as our
conscience dictated as well Az to
preach II 10 others that they might
learn the Gospel, ana acc tor them-
selves whether or not II In IN accord
WIN reason ana the Bible, lie said We
hhd better set out OF town or ne would
sec that we did, We bid him good.
night ana went to $, n, Chamberlains
NE postmaster, whore we stayed,
While we were mailing our letters, the
next morning, July s. W. j. Hubbard
camo 10 the door OF the postolllce, and
SAD pc wanted to speak 10 w. and I
lold nun all right on going out We
FOUND Dr. j, A. Perry and this man
Mcclure waiting for ls, We all step.
ped around Immediately back OF the
building when lhoy told us TO got out
Of town Immediately or they would
gei buggy whips and drive us out Wo
told them We had seen the mayor, Jul.
iOs Yare,gky before commencing TO
WORK IN the town, and had asked him
" II was unlawful for ny 10 ask for
entertainment or 10 Offer for
salo OF the Gospel books we had, ana
he had said no TO both questions, ar.
surfing Wv mat We had "A right to preach
on the street II we wished, and that the
law afforded protection 10 all 20 wor-
ship God az they pleased, We told
them We had hrokon no law, ANA were
mndlng our own business They told
us there was law besides the letter
and that was the law Of the people, Or.
Perry told W. II would not do In these
days for vs. to 40 around telling the
people what Paul said kindly asked
him whether people, who believed IN
the Bible, ought not TO be- willing 10 do
what The Apostle Paul said Mcclure
put his cllnched fist against my nose
and threatened 60 smash my face, M.
ing very abusive language concerning
NJ and our people Eldor Mcneil and
went 10 the mayors Office TO get book
! had loaned him tho first night we
were talking together Mcclure, HUB
bard and many others came 90 the
mayors onlce Mcclure and Hubbard
began 20 threaten TO horAeNhln ~ out,
and Mcclure got both Of his hands
around my throat and commenced 10
strange me- Just then ~ |, Campbell
lntcrferod, making him let so, We then
rot our grips and commenced TO leave
town, with the mon behind with whips,
The mayor never said word 20 qucll
tho disturbance aud the only man
there 10 raise His voice IN our behalf or
IN behalf Of Justice and liberty, was this
Mr. Campbell, who with Louis spark.
man. came thoro 10 see that We were
not horsowhippod,
while walking away ave thought OF
the charges brought against u.s. that
I'VE arc not Christians ana nro dlsloyaV
"a the government ana trying 10 OVER
throw H. Hut what shall We say of
such ofnoore OF the land nv lhosoY
What VIII overthrow the government
more ofreotuNlly and more rapidly than
such acts Of l,s onlclap2 What n tho
"Mormons' should treat mlsslonarioS
Of other denominations az We were
treated~.would We ever hear the last of
lt2 BLESSED are ye whom men sholl re.
vile YOU nnd prosecute You, ana shan
eay all manner OF eYll against YOU
falsely, fol my sake"
Elder Pulley N from American Fork,
Utah, and elder McNcll IN from Fair
view, Idaho -
JAMES H. WALLIS,