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Peet Of Utah Tells Pointed
Truths In Methodist Pulpit

! offered rewards to the amount Of SIS
600 10 the members Of the Ministerial
association u salt Lake City and was
especially severe on Dr. lin. Dr.. WISH
! ard and DR.. Paden, whom he said knew
they were telling gross and unqualified
falsehoods In their statements against
Utah.
Mr.. Pect ia closing gave vivid de-
scrlptlon OF the hardships in crossing
the plains IN early days by the Nor
mons, who. through great trials and
fluctuations had made the desert bios
som like the rose.
At the close Of his lecture Mr. Peet
said It was his usual custom to invite
anyone who wished 10 ask any ques-
lions, comment or make a 10 minutes
speech on Utah either for or against.
There was a long, painful pause till
someone suggested that Mrs. Rath-
bone, Methodist preacher ana ex.
horteT from New York state. who was
in the audience, make some remarks.
Mrs. Rathbone. who is a bright, attrac-
tive woman and a fluent speaker. arose
and said she was well pleased az the
very able and clear description Of
Utah's wonderful climate, sctrery. etc.
but she did object 10 having the
preachers OF Utah called 2x4 even II
Bishop Fowler Of the Methodist church
called them that. she said that she had
read many OF the tracts and circulars
sent out by the Christian missionaries
of Utah and when she Gcard that there
was to be a lecture on Utah and the
Mormons In a Methodist church she
supposed. Of course. Il would be against
the Mormons and Utah. She said one
OF the CIRCULARS sens her stated that
there were Mormon communities IN
Utah where there was more crime I'M
morality and degradation than there
was I'm any city in the United States
and that the only reason that women
were allowed 90 vote IN Utah was be-
cause a Mormon with three wives
would have four votes She had read
about the Mountain Meadow massacre
and had heard a Josephite Mormon lee
ture against Utah. and that she knew
a bad man who went 10 Utah and Join
ed the Mormons and that no one could
make her believe but that most OF the
circulars against the Mormons were
not true.
She then gave US good old-fashi0n-
ed eNhortation to give our hearts 10
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talk seemed TO please Mr. Peet. for
he was ready for that kind OF an at
tack He said IN reply II she would
appoint a committee OF three men In
the audience. whose reputation was
honest, and send them TO Utah, and
II they found any Mormon community
one-tenth as bad as she described or
any Mormon community where vice and
crime was countenanced Ia any way he
would pay all the expenses Of the COM
mittee and give them each s. per day
besides.
A mad. immoral community does not
make intelligent and moral young men
said Mr.. Peet Mormon students are
more moral and stand higher in their
classes in the eastern colleges than
the students from any other church.
creed OF state I'm America. As 10 the
women's rights question Mr. Peet said
that female suffrage was agltated long
before Utah was thought OF and that
many non-Mormon states had adopted
Il. As 10 the Mountain Meadow mas
sacre Mr. Peet said We have had many
massacres In the United States: he
spoke Of Hahn's Mills, the murder Of
Joseph and Hyrum Smith. the Wyo-
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80 Morayian missionaries In Ohio. and
II was q very easy matter for religious
bigots II they wanted TO create a false
impression TO lay all those masSacres
10 innocent people, and II people really
wanted 90 know the facts about the
Mountain Meadow massacre they
should read Bancrofts History Of
Utah.
As 20 the lecture Of the Josephite
Mormon and the bad man who had
Joined the Mormons. Mr.. Peet consid-
cred them too silly for a reply but IN
reply 10 the truthfuness of the mis-
sionaries iu Utah and the circulars
they distribute he said that the Rev.
S. +. Wlshard and Or. r. c. lin sup
erlntendents Of the Presbyterian and
Methodist missions. IN Utah, were |
either wilful liars or they are protect
ed criminals Rev Wishard said he
had recorded the names Of 80 Nor |
mons who had taken plural wives since |
1890 and when requested 10 publish !
his list so that those 80 criminals could |
be brought 10 justice he refused 20 |
do e. Dr.. lin and many other mis- |
sionaues have told similar stories but I
not one Of them went before the Smoot /
investigation 10 bring those criminals I
to justice and not one OF them has /
tried to get the 81 900 reward / have |
offered them. said Hr Peet
As TO the truthfulness OF religious /
tracts Mr. Peet said there we're 10i .
tracts. books and PAM .
phlets in the Aston Library, New I
York. Tie then took from large 1
canvas bag which seemed 10 be filled /
with tracts and pamphlets a copy Of I
the Methodist Review for March. 1905, I
and from page s40 read the following /
% 1855 volume % considerable size /
appeared and on the title page We read I
The Great Secret Disclosed refer /
ring io the growth % John Wcsley's /