Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1906-09-04

Harrisyllle, Pennsylvania. Aug &c.
When v s. Peet taught school here
more than % years ago. he took away
with him one Of the best girls In
Bradford county. and In all his wan
Gerings since that time / have kept
track Of him and when | learned that
he had gone to Utah to live was
horrifed for from what | had read IN
our religious papers and IN the tracts.
pamphlets and books on Utah and the
Mormons, thought Utah was the end
OF the world and the jumping OFF place.
ana when little later he persuaded
DR.. Charles ". Stewart. OF this place.
one Of the brightest young men In
Pennsylvania TO settle In Salt Lake
City tthe modern Sodom) TO practise
medicine. ] thought that Mr. Peet had
joined the Mormons or gone crazy for
from what | had read was sure that
any Christian doctor would be boy
cotted and actually starved To death
In Utah ana ever since d. Stewart
settled In Salt Lake have read and
studied everything | could that related
." IAN htAA hiif hVl ili'iA0a
] took special delight In reading tac
Presbyterian Assembly Herald, II being
Christian paper. ! was sure IL told
the truth about Utah and the Nor
mons | read IN that from the pen Of
Samuel Il. Wishard, d. d., that "the
overwhelming majority OF the people
OF Utah are Mormons and that Nor
mOnIsm was the darkest system OF
lao
were aliens and were trying 10 over
throw our government This Assem-
bly, Herald also said that the people
Of Salt Lake were so disloyal that they
tried 10 insult the American flag by
holding 4 celebration on the third in
stead Of the fourth Of July and were
only prevented by bringing soldiers
and cannon from the fort and by
calling out the troops.
The governor was threatened by let
ters written in blood that he would be
assassinated. that Salt Lake was the
blacklist spot on American civiliza-
tion and It's cankeT OF corruption was
rapidly spreading, | also read Dr.
VIM NJ Paden's statements In our
daily papers IN which he stated that
the MOrmons had control OF every
Thing IN Utah but the courts and that
sometimes a Mormon revelation inter-
fered IN them and SET criminals free
and that Mormons teach their children
10 be avengers on all the Cen
tiles Of this nation. also
remember that almost two years
ago Mrs. Frederick sohon Of PhIladel-
phia spoke In Wyalnsing Ga neighbour
ing town. She told frightful story
about Utah and said that she had al
ready collected 5000. and that she
wanted her audience 10 swell this sum
10 send TO the Hon. Frank j. Cannon
who was the only man that knew
all about Mormonism and he would
teach them TO lead a more moral. hon
est and upright life. And from all
had read and heard Of Utah and the
Mormons | wanted TO keep away from
them and my thoughts were TO travel
east. but heard V. $. Peet last night
lecture on Utah ana The Mormons
10 large and appreciative audience
and now / have turned square around
and | am going westward.
Mr.. Peet taught school here several
years and he is known by all 10 be
honest. truthful and very enthusiastic
on any subject on which he IL In
torested. he pictured Utah as one OF
the grandest states I'm the union and
Bear River valley to be the garden
spot OF America He took u through
Utah's wonderful canyons. gave us an
inNgorating and stimulating bath In
the great Salt Lake: he said that Utah
had the healthiest climate In the world
and the grand the glorious and sub
lime sunsets over the great Salt lake
and Bear River valley could not be
put on canvas by all earth's great
artists He said that the great ma
jority Of Mormons were honest. fru-
gal. moral educated and enterpTising,
and that Utah was an ideal spot for
a farm, home. education and invest
ment
Utah, said Mr.. Peet, had practically
solved the labor problem which is the |
great question which confronts the
people OF this country. The labor |
problem viii never be solved as long |
as intelligent men and women have
20 depend on boss for their oread
and butter and landlord for house |
"a live IN. but In Utah where 20 per |
cent OF the people own the farms they |
live on and SO per cent are free from
debt. they care but little whether |
wages or rents so up or down. me
people Of Utah have plenty TO DO ana |
plenty Of leisure and plenty 10 eat
drink and wear
When Mr. Peet came 20 the Minis /
terial association Of salt Lake city and /
the Presbyterian board Of home mis-
sions aud other religious societies Of
who as he said were dis
'ributing or selling u OF the most sour
Tulous and misleading tracts TO inlule /
Utah that the depraved minds OF iheir i
authors could write De handled these /
societies and the preachers as President I
Roosevelt does the trusts, With a biz /
stick. Mr. rcet exhibited these tracts.
the one which represented Utah - a 1
big black blot on the map Of the Ini-
ted States IN the shape OF a hidious
devil FISH, which he said was adopted |
by the Ministerial association 81 salt 1
Lake City. and that they must have I
had in mind the great dragon spoken
n by 81. John the divine, the great
red agon, Mr. Peet said, meant bias
phemy snd the great black devil hsh 4
meant Islander. He Enumerated and /
commented upon each one Of the tracts
IN he came 10 the one which said, 1
among other things. that the Mormons /
boycotted and starved out Gentiles VINO
went TO Utah to live and that a Gentle
doctor would starye Ia death II he had
TO depend upon Mormons for patients.
Mr.. Peet Illustrated the falsity Of that
by stating that Dr. {. W.
Stewart, who was born IN Herrickyille
and lived here all his life till he went
away 10 school, that he graduated from
the University Of Chicago and the Den
yer Medical college. and after prac-
Using In Denver and IN Nebraska be
opened an Office In Salt Lake city.
and that ne has large practise and
most % his patients are Mormons and
be has prospered better In salt Lake
city than any young man who ever
eft this section OF the country. lie
also spoke Of Or. Rich OF Minneapolis.
MINI. who settled In Brigham city.
who soon had the largest practice IN
BoSclder county. and that 90 per cent
n HE patients were Mormons.
Mr. fcet said that most Of these
Ifacis were written by little. cheap
orthodox preachers Of salt Lake City.