Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1906-12-03
A PREACHER REBUKED,

1t seems that everyone who under
takes to stand up for the truth must
become the object Of anti-"Mormon'
SANDER and falsehood. Not only the
Latter. day Saints, but their friends
also, are misrepresented and yiliiled.
We find IN the Dallas Post OF Nov "a,
an item which illustrates this, Some
body writes the Editor OF the Post for
information concerning Mr.. V. $, Poet,
whom Wilkes Barre papers had repre-
scented as being Mormon travelling
abroad with two wives. etc. The Editor
of the Post. Mr.. w, III. Capwcll, who
has visited Utah and knows what tho
conditions here are, and who Is
broad mnded gentleman. replies to the
communication rs follows:
In the nrst place that report OF Mr..
Poet disturbing the meeting was a
falsehood and az for his being arrest
ed, that Is another He, even II found
In the Record, whose report says ne
was escorted from the church BY a
detective In plain clothes. If Mr.. Poet
was escorted from the church by a
detective or policeman, | must have
been the policeman, as ] went OUT
with him when the remainder OF the
audience went out,
Mr.. Peet IS not Mormon. lie Is
Methodist He has only one wife.
He has two children, both married.
His son is In Nevada and his daughter
lives I'M Wilkes Barre. ] have known
him twenty-five years and lived neigh
bors to him for several years He has
been employed the past year by the
business men OF Salt Lake city and OF
the state In general 10 follow up such
sycophants as Dr. Tiff (who so about
IN the guisc OF missionaries and lie
about Utah and It's people,. and tell
the people Just how these prevarica-
tors slauaer tne inGermountain state.
The offers he makes 10 give several
| thousand dollars to any charity DR..
| Illff may name IL hc DR.. Tiff, will
prove that certain things he speaks
| Of in his lectures are true, are backed
up by the wealthest men In Utah.
! These rewards have been offered for
| two years zut not one of them has been
! claimed. Dr. lin has told these falses-
! hoods about Utah people until he real
| ~ believes them, but he dare not offer
| to prove them.
] III our ItDDll VI lFls illl ltNAhAN
| We used very moderate language. for
| the reason that the Post does not cir
culate very extensively among those
who attended the lecture but we knew
that the whole lecture was built up on
"a stack OF falsehoods in which there
was small grain OF truth. but so
ingeniously put together, and so hyp-
| notiCally dealt out that the audience
| believed every word the old sycophant
| uttered IL DR. lllff had known Mr.
Peet was IN the audience he would
have modified many OF his statements
as to did once before when Mr. Peet
and attended his lecture and the doc
tor recognized him just after he began
his talk and for fear OF being called
! down changed his subject.
II hate TO say that Dr.. lllff lies, sees
ing that we belong TO the same church
but lac does warp the truth terribly"
we copy this refutatIon OF ISLANDERS,
addressed to a preacher OF doubtful
fame. Nh; Capwell is a Methodist, We
understand. and DR.. Hin must feel his
castigation all the keener. But the
time viii surely come when peddline
falsehoods about Utah people VIII nc
longer prove a rcmunorative occupation
People OF the East are having thell
eyes opened to the humbug, tho by.
pocrisy and the utter deprnvity Of th'
anti" Mormon demagogues.