Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1907-07-17
sIanderous Work Of Protested
Followers of Saviour" Shown
Up by V. s. Peet.
GROSS MISREPRESENTATION.
weird stories Manufactured for East
ern Consumption Regarding
People OF This State.

The work done throughout the east
by the men who profess TO have dedt-
Gated their lives TO the Savior, under
the protecting names Of Christian or
PLANTATIONS, TO defame and Islander the
PEOPLE who settled and pioneered the
waste places Of Utah. was treated in
a lecture last night by V. S. Peet, de-
livered at the Twelfth ward meeting
house.
Mr.. Peet took up at length a narra-
tive of the eastern efforts to malign
and color falsely Utah conditions, and
told the history of their beginning and
accomplishments.
The blood money" extorted by mis-
sion boards, by methods he character
lied at criminal, to support Utah in
etitutions which advertised themselves
as does Westminster college" to be
the only Christian college in Salt Lake
or within a radius or 600 miles" was
mentioned and declared TO result only
In menacing the community with i'm
situations that can only do harm. es-
pecially TO those who support and at
tend them.
ISLANDERS FROM CHRISTIANS"
In taking up the history of defama-
ton aimed at Utah. Mr.. Peet first mem
toned the Presbyterian Home Mission
board, which has announced an inten-
ton TO establish schools in every ham,
let in Utah to teach children respect
for the flag in order that ii may not
be tranpled upon and spat upon as In
the past Following UP this subject
Mr.. Peet read declarations printed IN
Presbyterian journals east of the Mis-
sissippi that could not he printed west
OF it, where facts are too we'll known
to give such malicious SANDER hear
Ing. Prominent among these he mem
toned a letter from a lady missionary
supposed to be stationed at Kaysville,
where she reports that there are ~ po~
lygamists, all married since the mani
festo, living within q radius of seven
miles. Mr.. Peet offered the lady $1,000
per name, ana said he had made this
offer TO her before without result. To-
gether with this statement in the LETT
ter another was read to the effect that
since the establishment of the mission
schools there was hope that the peo-
pie Of Ogden would begin to learn to
read and write after period of the
darkest illiteracy"
GROSS NIIsREPRESENTATI
Then came up the remarkable state-
ment from Rev. Tiff that the display
ing of the u. $. flag on pioneer day in
Utah communities was meant as an insult
10 the nation. and was disloyal. Chris
tian papers were exhibited containing
most weird stories of the most licent-
ious kind under such captions as the |
Life of a Mormon Girl" In one was |
a declaration that 30 women are confined |
in a Southern Utah Mormon town |
who would escape in a body II they |
could but who dare not escape sinsly, |
try 1t. The Salt Lake Tribune was
',und 10 be equally guilty with other |
lpers. for a tract was exhibited. |
mted for consumption east of the
which ontained statements
20 vile that they could not be dis
ributed with any effect this side of The
big river. The Rev. Nutting's gross mis-
throughout the east were
'epeated with comment and some OF
he ISLANDERS on the personal character
Vt Senator Reed Smoot We're repeated. |
md classified according to the charact-
r Of those who originated them.
In conclusion the speaker referred to
he Utah missions whose people only |
emained here because the brethren"
# the board keep them here and of
he devices resorted to in the east to
,eep this fow of blood" money pour
ne in.
THE VIVID CONTRAST.
In contrast to this Justification OF
principles and facts. the work of the
ttah pioneers was pointed out as worth
ghile, and the younger generation was
rged to stand by the principles of
hose who came earlier, and carry on
heir Inheritance of an opportunity to
york with a free hand and a free
cart in developing the great west.
The lecture WAS listened to by an at
entive audience. and it was preceded
nd followed by vocal selections which
'ere well rendered. and accompanied
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