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

ed to lynch him. In a community
where "Peeping Charles" are en-
ployed no person is safe from ridicule.
1t is quite we'll known that many good
MormOnS wear an undergarment
known as an endowment robe. This
endowment garment is perfectly le-
Ultimate and right and is as sacred to
the Mormon as a scapula is to Cath
ilic and no one has any more right to
ridicule a Mormon for wearing this
garment than he has Sister of Char
ity because she has her head shaved
or her hair clipped. In Washington,
D. c., in December, 1904, Mr.. G. M.
Owen procured Mormon endowment
garment and went before a photog-
rapher and had his photograph taken
with this garment on and then had it
pictured in rdicule in a Washington,
D. c., paper. Mr.. Tayler, the anti
Smoot lawyer, did not advise it and
was much chagrined when he saw it
in the paper. Mr.. G. M. Owen testified
he was hired and paid by Rev. DR..
Paden, of Salt Lake, and that he made
all his reports to him. Mr. Owen also
swore that he was counseled from Salt
Lake about exhibiting the endowment
garment, which shows that DR.. Paden
and his counsel in Salt Lake were so
contemplate that their own attorney
would not stand for their methods.
Suppose it had been ex-senator
Kearns on trial instead of Senator
Smoot would Charley Owen have ia
ken a female relative of his to bar
Der shop and had her head shaved and
put a Sister of Charity's dress on her
and gone before a photographer and
had her photograph taken exhibiting
her shaved head and pictured it in the
paper as a specimen of one of the
teachers of the Kearns st. AIMS Or
phanage? l would not think of writ
| ing on such a disagreeable subject if
recent developments did not show that
&c. w. Owen was still in the employ
of DR.. Paden or the Ministerial asso-
citation, and is now in Washington
pursuing his despicable methods
The scurrilous anti-Utah unsigned
articles in the Assembly Herald all
point to the Gentle Bureau of in
| formation. Here is one statement,
There is probably not a Gentle in
Utah but what wishes Utah would be
| reduced to territory" Here is an
other "Polygamy is probably more
generally practiced in Salt Lake to-
day than ever before" When the
New York yellow Journal got
| through with Mr.. Owen they fired him.
And if there had been common de-
cency in the people who hired G. M.
Owen to help unseat Senator Smoot
they would also have given him his
walking papers after the despicable
acts of which he has been guilty. Utah
is the fairest flower in the bouquet of
states. But the Ministerial association
and the Tribune and their
hirelings would hurl the mud
of sectarian hatred and per-
sonal revenge at it's magnificent
grandeur and beauty, and make it
look small, mean and dirty by the side
of the other states of this great ma
| ton. They are the deadly black damp
and are trying to smother all the bust
ness enterprises, schools, institutions
and all immigration schemes in this
state. They are spies on every street
corner and public place who hold aloft
the dagger and the skull and cross
bones, frightening settlers and
capitalists away. The sermons that
were preached by the members of the
Ministerial Association three weeks
ago, the daily grind Of the Salt Lake
Tribune, the devil fish literature and
the secret and personal letters of the