Truth. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1901-1908, 1906-01-13

every business man, and to keep out
immigration, and to pull every string
OF their defamatory nature, to cast re-
proach on our schools and the young
men and women of this state, organ
lied this Gentle Bureau of Informal
ton, the notorious devil fish society of
the reverend knockers. When they
first organized this society they elect
ed poor old Richard Wake to dis
| tribute their diabolical literature, and
although the Rev. Wake was quite a
trouble breeder he was too slow; he
would not do the contemplate things
they wanted done. / have before me
a copy of letter of this society pub
lished in a cheap monthly paper. This
letter is headed as follows:
Utah Gentle Information Bureau,
Room IS, Mercantile Block, Salt Lake
City, Nov 10, 1906" This letter is a
series of falsehoods from first to last
and was intended to add fuel to the
fires of hatred that Marion Bonsell
has been stirring up against Utah.
The letter is signed not by the Rev.
Richard Wake, but by G. M. Owen, DR..
Paden's hired spotter. The following
will show what this man Owen is do
ing and has done for Utah. Mr.. David
Eccles is probably the wealthiest man
in Utah and distributes more money in
wages each month than any other
man in the state. The Amalgamated
Sugar companies, The Utah Construc-
ton company (the largest railroad
construction company in America),
the Eccles lumber companies, the new
smelter to be built in Ogden, the
steam and street railroads, ETC., ETC.,
are all monuments to Mr.. David
Eccles and his partners. With all this
business Mr.. Eccles had to leave it
and go to Washington, d. c. to refute
the gross falsehoods of G. M. Owen
and not only that-Owen dragged Mrs.
Margaret Geddes to Washington, D.
c., and compelled her to acknowledge
her shame with which Mr.. Eccles had
no connection whatever), before the
world and all, to no purpose but to
injure Utah. G. M. Owen cast reflec-
tions upon many good men, whom he
said had taken plural wives since the
, manifesto and his statements were all
falsehoods, not facts. Here is what
Mr.. James H. Brady, Republican
chairman of Idaho and one of the
J brightest witnesses at the Smoot in
vestigation, said of G. M. Owen: 1--WE
know that there are polygamist fami-
lies in Idaho-a small number of
them. Aside from the question of
their polygamous relations, nobody
questions their honesty or integrity.
These old men have their families liv-
ing around them, and they go over and
see their children. They may stay un-
til night They may put their children
to bed; and the old people may sit
there before the fireplace and talk.
Charles Mostyn Owen may sneak up
, to the house and peep in the window
to see what these old people are do
ing I will not do it. Senator Dubois
will not do it, say, and do not know
of any good business man in Idaho
who will do it."
Nearly all religious denominations
have some outward or secret signs of
their society. The Quakers, Omish,
Mennonites, Moravans, Dunkards,
| River Brethren, Sisters of Charity and
the Shakers all show their religion in
their dress and as long as their garb
is not offensive to other people they
have perfect right to wear it. Many
of the other denominations have some
part of their garments or some token
on their persons that they do not ex-
hibit which they consider private and
: sacred. The Catholics, the High Epis-
copals, the Lutherans, the Presbyter-