Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1908-06-02
SANDERS REFurED.

Some of tho state papers have no
ticed an article said to have appeare
recently in tho New York Herald I,
when one Hans Peter Frecce is quote
regarding Utah and the people here
Among other things Hans Peter Freec,
Is made to say:
"Polygamy is preached to the old ant
young Sunday after Sunday from tn,
pulpits and platforms In Utah. They
make no pretense of 1t. II Is only wher
they come East to get converts thai
they deny polygamy.
Hans Peter Freeze is also quoted as
follows:
''They 1.-THE missionaries send TO Utah
reports of my labors with the result
that my father, my sister and my
brothers, who still live there are made
to feel their displeasure. They have
threatened me with all kinds of per-
sonal violence should ! dare TO return
to Utah. and one of my brothers has
been assaulted frequently; my other
brother was forced to leave the high
school, the Mormon authorities telling
him he could not teach there while |
WAS opposing them. At first my father
feared 1t would be dangerous for me
TO continue, but he has now become
reconciled."
Commenting on these ridiculous AL
legations, the Richfield Reaper of May
rs. says:
ut appears from the article that one
Hans Peter Freeze is given to lying
mendaciously about his friends anu
neighbors in Sewer county. or cour5S
no one who knows Hans Peter would
pay the slightest attention to him, but
he is working the gullible public IN
the Empire state with his tales of the
horrors of Mormonism and incidentally
getting the shekels to pay his tuition
In a law school which he is attending.
and he intends to come back TO Titan
and reform conditions here, with his
knowledge of the law ana the pro-
phets."
ITO those ON the inside of Hans Pc
ter's family relationship that solicitude
for his father is most touching. Soma
there bo who aver that not always does
the elder Freeze get consolation, help
or even decent treatment from TINS
most illustrious scion of the house OF
Freeze. The people of the town OF
Salna never heard of the brother be-
ing assaulted. Presumably the brother
referred to is Dan Freeze True, he
did have scrap with a Mormon In
that town few years back and there
are things that could be said of
Dan that would not sound we'll in
the ears of the people of New York,
things. too, that would not reflect any
great amount of credit on Hans Peter.
For further particulars as to Dan
the school where Hans Peter received
his education could very well be re-
ferred to-
Hans Peter has a sister who is a
practising physician In Salina. II Is
safe TO say that more than half OF her
patients are Mormons. This does not
look like persecution, as til re are many
capable physicians in this county
to whom the Mormons could give their
support and even in Salina there Is an
excellent physician who has been
a warm friend of the Mormon people.
although he is not member or any
church. II Hans Peter IL telling the
truth DR.. West should be receiving
much of the patronage the sister OF
this defarner Is getting.
THE brother who is referred to as
having been ordered from the High
school Is undoubtedly Tier Freeze Who
is at present principal of the Salina
school Her was given that position
when c. A. Mattsson. Mormon bish-
Oh, gave up the position, and II is UNI
derstood that part of his duty as prin-
cipal is to assist in the High school
work. He has been engaged as prin-
cipal for the next year again ana ne
is said to be well liked in Salina. This
does not look like he was forced to
leave by the Mormon authorities Hans
Peter is a mendacious liar. He says
he has been threatened with all kinds OF
personal violence when he returns to
Utah That Is another lie, although II
ever a man deserved personal violence
for traducing a community that man Is
Hans Peter
The Reaper, which by the way, is
one OF Utah's many live and enterpris-
ing newspapers, completely refutes some
other falsehoods credited 10 Hans Peter
Freeze.
The salina eau. of May 20, contains
the following communication over the
signature Of Or. Margaret A, Freeze
IN answer to the defamatory msrepre-
sensations of her brother;
"Salina Utah May %, 1908
San article published in one OF the
state papers which Is a synopsis OF
lecture given IN New York by II. +.
freeze came 20 my notice, and ! want
10 say to the community that | do not
approve OF the article. ! want TO say
that in no community could the people
have been more considernte | have been
given a square deal by the people, as
whole, since the day ! landed IN Salina.
/ can also speak Tor my DfplnflS ana
father and that they feel that they owe
an apology to the people for tho artl-
Gle that appeared IN the paper, which
was uttered without our knowledge or
sanction and that we are none of us
responsible for anything that comes
from that quarter Yours truly
MARGARET FREEZE"
From time to time men arise who
think they can make an easy living by
telling credulouF people dread tales
about the Latter-day Saints. II. r.
Freeze "a one OF these geniuses, 1t IL
one way Of making a living. And 1t Is
apparently. not as dangerous as eoun-
terfeiting and Showing the queer"
though not very much more honorable
II. p. Freeco should remember though
that none Of his predecessors In the
defamation business, for money, has
prospered IN the long run. They have
been caught" sooner or later. and the
vile features under their elaborate dis
gulse have been revealed 10 their
dunes. II is poor business TO poddle
falsehoods.
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