The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1910-06-22
THE casio COERCION.

THE CASTO COEHClON.
1t seems that the church authorities
in Preston, Idaho, not only compelled
, Mr.. George D. Caste, heretofore Trib-
, une correspondent at that place, to go
back on his own statements. confess
} that he had written lies to The Trib.
une, and misrepresented Parkinson and
others, but made him swear to the de-
NAL. They appear to have forced him
also into further statement that
he Furnished the material for letters
written by G, L. Arney, the Idaho
correspondent for The Salt Lake Trib-
une, in which reference was made to
President Parkinson and connecting
him with the alleged Oneida irrigation
district scandal And further, 'that
the information he gave was misleading
and untrue and that Mr.. Caste re-
grcts having been "miSed up in the
scandalous affair." And yet, nobody
Hmixed him up' in it but himself.
The value of retraction and denial
such as Mr.. Casio has made, evidently
under duress, is not great. We believe
| that what Mr.. Casio wrote in his let
| ters to Tho Tribune was the truth. de
personally assured the editor fort
night ago or so that it was the truth,
At the same time he confessed his fear
that the authorities there would make
1t hot for him If they found out he was
the author of the letters. He said that
they suspected him of writing those
letters, and was sure that they would
that he wrote them. Evidently the
affiiction has been put into effect and
Mr.. Casio has been compelled to say
that the truth was lie and that what
he wrote in good faith was slapderous
falsehood. They must have put the
screws to Mr.. Casio very hard to make
him confess that. For, Mr.. Arney
had no need to rely, and did not rely,
upon Mr.. Casio for any material fact
IN the exposures of the scandalous
swindlos of Parkinson Hart G. Co. in
the Oneida ditch matters.
We do not believe that Mr. Casio
would claim that he was the one who
furnished the information upon which
The Tribune based its exposure of the
Oneida ditch swindle. and the scandal.
Gus rascality of Parkinson and Others
in connection with that gross rascality.
The fact is that The Tribune had the
facts III the case from the auditor s
report, from an investigation direct
from this office by qualified person
OF undoubted expertness and intelli-
Tence, who was on the ground, looked
over the ditch, conferred with those
who were robbed in connection with
the scheme, and who made up his own
conclusions without seeing or knowing
anything about Mr.. Casio. OF without
any prompting from any one. 1T is
possible that Mr.. Casio may have fur
nished Mr.. Arncy some Of the informa-
ton used by him in his letters. That,
however, was aside from and merely
corroborative of what appeared in
tigation made by The Tribune through
its trusted agents, The Tribune had
and has the report of She auditor,
which was tremendously damaging TO
Parkinson; it has its own sources of in.
formation IN regard to this as well as
other matters, and is not in the least
dependent, nor has it been, upon Mr.. |
Casio. it has used his letters. to be |
sure. as corroborativc truth of devel. |
opments made otherwise. and TINT is all. |
Those who have compelled Mr.. Casio |
to confess as the source of Mr.. Ar
ney S letters. undoubtedly intended to |
use that coerced confession as pre- |
tended confutation of The Tribune s |
appalling presentation of Parkinson Is |
rascality in the Oneida ditch scheme. |
This is evident from the yellow streak |
that appeared in the Deseret News Inst |
night in its editorial on this subject. |
But N this they will fail. because there |
is no substance as basis upon which |
they can erect any such structure OF |
falsehood. The Tribune's statements |
as to that matter are true; and if Mr. |
Parkinson, Mr.. Hart: or any other of |
the scoundrels active in the swindllng |
operations wishes to put the matter to |
the test, The Tribune invites any or all |
of them to make their appeal to thu
courts.