The Idaho scimitar. [volume] (Boise, Idaho) 1907-1908, 1908-08-08
Another Newspaper Boycott.

p1cat1on OF the boycott by the Mormon church to
Blackfoot newspaper The newspaper had been
telling the truth and that was more than the bishops
could stand and they directed their subjects to stop
the paper and remove themselves from danger of
exposure to any such un-Mormon doctrine
The newspaper boycott is spreading in the domain
of the saints. At Salt Lake there is an endowed
hospital of semipublic character and it is managed
by board OF properly seasoned devotees of the
church BY vote of the managers, the Salt Lake
Tribune has been excluded from the hospital the
inmates thereof being denied access to its columns
although they are paying patrons from all the walks
of life
The Ir1buneS offence is its truthfuness a Gentle
failing that is incompatible with Mormon practices
and is therefore hated in Mormondom bv the high
and the low But the order has gone forth that
the Salt Lake Tribune is to be excluded from the
hospital, although it may encounter the deterrent
effect of violation of the federal postal laws
The action Of the hospital board has moved the
boycotted paper to publish brief reference to pre-
v1ous sanity efforts to suppress free speech in
which it says
1t is perhaps thirty years ago since Bill Hickman
one OF the Dan1tes an avengng angel of the Church
OF Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints turned states
evidence and made confession of the MANY muir
derS committed at the instigation of those higher
IN authority than he. The murders committed by
speech This was in Utah
1t has been forty-one years since band of emf
grants from the state of Arkansas bound for Cali
lorna made up of real men, pioneer women helm
less children, were cruelty murdered butchered: if
was at Mountain Meadows, in the then territory
OF OF Otah by gang OF white men under the leader
ship of Haight and Higbee, and Indians under the
leadership of John Doyle Lee good saint polvgamist
and cut-throat This slaughter, it was believed,
would suppress free speech. This was in Utah
Men, many OF them, have in the years that have
gone been found dead in the cutters of Salt Lake
streets face downward, in perhaps two or three
hcheS OF running water. In hand nearly al
ways was partly-emptied flask of liquor. The
Terd1ct was death by drowning due to intoxication
Every man thus found was either Gentle or an
a az state The Dantes lived The hierarchy was
IN power 1t was supposed that free speech would
be suppressed in Utah. When man rebe1led he
was murdered ~
Of Only a few years ago the Church of Jesus Christ
TOT the government of the United States ordered
the Hags at half-mast, the nations natal dav in
!ne city OF oa Lake on the city and county build
OF the then president of the church Old GLORY was
n p by the hierarchy, traed in the dust as
It were, under the orders of the hierarchy. It was
OeneVed THIS would suppress free speech
thirty years ago the Church of Jesus Christ of
latter Day Saints, through trusted officer of the
l ,rela[Gny made contract with scarlet women,
governor IN particular This trusted official was
afterwards arrested, tried convicted and sentenced
o prison for one year One of the women whom
le brought here arrested gave bond and die
ppeared There people living TODAY who saw
nat when the last trumpet shall sound that FannI
davenport Will arise from the grave in the CITY
emetery, where she was buried, after being saught
req and Will then point out her slayers The her-
rchy ruled Utah then. Every effort was made to
uppress free speech -
Establishing the boycott against newspapers is
mild method of truth suppression compared with
ne practices OF the past But the hierarchy ALWAYS
oes as tar as it dare 60 The influx of Gentle
opulat1on has compelled an abandonment of the
loody methods of the past but the church is swift