Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1907-07-23

paper man who reported Browns lec-
| turo few days before came to my
rescue and said he had read my lecture
In n pamphlet we issued before Brown
was ever heard OF in juvenile coures.
have had occasion to lecture AT
places where he has been and because
of his deliberate plagiarism or imita-
tion of this kind have had to change
my lecture almost entirely lest / be
believed to be copying after fellow
who has without even one little gem
erous reference, stolen my thunder and
the results Of my years of work.
THIEF OF THUNDER.
7 have no objection to Browns lee
turing just as much as he pleaseS. That
is probably his right, but gentlemen l
do most strenuously protest against
his stealing not only the work OF my
self but others who were in the Juvenile
court work before he ever was heard
of. as I now believe for exploitation
rather thany any sincere idea to ad-
vance a great cause. SO long az l be-
lieved that his motive was good he
had my help and sympathy and even
letters to others defending him from
other attacks l believed at the time to
be unfounded and indeed / did not OBJ
ject to his using my lectures " he did
IL in a way so as not to embarrass me
as indicated. He has deliberately and
willfully made false statements regard
ing juvenile courts and laws, creating
false impressions by half truths. and
framed his lectures and circulars, ad-
vertising himself, in manner
| deliberately designed to mislead
the public all TO his self aggrandize-
nent and to increase his Importance as
an attraction and money getter by viz
tue thereof, rather than as an earnest
| worker anxious to tell the truth and
| advance a great cause rather than HIM
self.
THE EUROPEAN TRIP.
Last winter Brown came to my house
in Denver and to my court chambers
where he had been time and time again,
apparently watching every move /
made, but ! supposed for no Interior
quif'ing about my private affairs and
future work in the juvenile court. /
told him had been invited to England
by very prominent English men and
women In the political and educational
World to lecture on this subject, He be-
came very much interested. He gave
! me not the slightest intimation he had
any such invitation. But as usual, an
adept in manufacturing. he proceeds
after leaving my house to advertise
himself all over the country as being
invited TO England "to deliver a series
spend the months of October and
September 10 assist In establishing
courts in the old world" Imagine the
people of England inviting man dis
credited by the supreme court OF Utah
as unfit To hold such a position (for
you can't make anything else out Of the
opinion--See Mills VS. Brown SIS Pac
REM a man who was never lawyer
expounding the chancery and criminal
law who has not only permitted but
apparently fostered and encouraged the
| circulation of advertising statements OF
a lecture bureau full of lies himself and
the juvenile laws, and as these state
| ments are made. claiming like quack
an the credit of the work OF others In
half dozen states.
FALSE CIRCULAR.
His circular says his law is before
| congress. | do not suppose the peo-
, pie in Washington City ever heard OF
brown or his Utah law for II was In
1904 that President Roosevelt In his
message TO congress recommended that
| they adopt such juvenile laws as then
| existed In Ilinose and Colorado. and
happened to have the honor, with Hon.
r. d. Hurley of Chicago, Zone of the
| pioneers In juvenile courts, before
Brown was ever heard of as early as
1908 TO be consulted by the authorities In
Washington on these laws for that city
the senate and house committees 10
| make the recommendation they after
wards adopted Mr.. Douglas OF the
Children's Aid Society of Washington,
the member Of the Women's CLUBS.
Mr. Mcfarland of the district and
others, who are responsible for the
law In Washington City and who In
vited me there, and where ! went at
my own expense and without COM
pensation. could never have heard OF
Brown, because IL was two years
afterwards before he bobbed up In
Salt Lake City as o sort OF spectacu-
lar lecturer 10 boys on cigarettes "a
thing he is good at--any kind Of talk
to boys).
MALICIOUS PURPOSE.
Evidently, as ] now read his lying
circulars and hear Of his constant
nisstatoments deliberately planned 10
use the ideas OF lawyers, laymen,
splendid women and others as all his
very own, aud winding up a Ham
bCuyant lecture bureau circular with
this deliberate lie mot only haf
Judge Brown been instrumental In the
establishment OF courts in six other
elites, but its features are embodied
In a bill now before Congress. and
both England and France are using II
Rs q basis OF juvenile court law
feel II was all done Tor some purpose
| thai bodeS no good 20 the JuNenH"
court, for as this statement is used
on the average reader In this adyer'
tIsement II Is a wllful lle Fol
Brown knows that In the annual re-
ports 10 the National Conference OF
Charities and Corrections, and from
what no had heard In Denver anf
! Chicago time and time ago, neither
he nor the bill he prepared In 1905
, was IN any manner responsible oil
! could In any manner justify such .
| statement, II all sounds like the adj
yertlsement of patent medicine
quack who had stolen tho prescrip
. ton OF reputable and educated
physician and proceeded TO palm 1
on on the gullible public In order
not that he might cure anyone, bu
that he might make money,
FOOLED SOME PEOPLE.
or course Brown has fooled people
By this sort OF business. He fooleC
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