Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1910-08-31
A Reply to Pearson's SANDERS.

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enclosure But the soldiers never came
They marched and countermarcncd and
finally, when about blocks length
from the western brow of the bench
or midway between the fort and the
thcn eastern limits of the city. turned
arUund and marched back TO their
quarters This was as near TO a real
ization OF the highly colored story
above given out as was ever enacted
Special attention Is requested to the
following choice excerpts:
"Mormons buy and sell only with
Mormons; they marry, they go To
| church only with Mormons; they vote
| only with Mofm6ns. To break any OF
these ties is to lose all. to lose all
is to be banished.
There Is no record OF a Gentle who
| over succeeded iii a business venture In
"A strictly Mormon community"
This brazen and utterly basclcss men,
dacity is put forth as the result OF
| actual observation And this in the
| face of thN ever-present facts TIA;
| scarcely an hour of the business part
of any business day passes that Nor
mons are not buying I'm Gentle houses
and vice versa; that intcrmarrying be-
tween the two classes Is 50 common
| that II seldom eNcites unusual remark;
that church going Ia almost as pro
miscuous here as anywhere; that Nor
mons vote as freely for Gcnti,es in
convention and at the polls as for their
own people. and tho Genttes with the
exception OF those contained In the
American parity do likewise by tho
Mormons Everybody here, on either
side OF the social line. of whatever re-
ligious faith or political affiliation,
knows this statement of facts In ro-
buttal TO be correct 40 the question
naturally arises where and from whom
did the Persons writer obtain his mis-
information? And why does he put u
forth as personally acquired truth
when, II he knows anything at all of
the situation here. he must undoubtedly
know that his statements arc among
the most unsubstdntial and insupp0rt-
ab0 connections that ever cmanatcd
from ~ sane mind? Furthermore, there
Is no record of any one having been
banished at any time for the cause sug-
gested or any cause whatever; and
there is an immense array OF records
of the kind OF which tho magazine
writer says there arc none-Gentiles
succeeding i'm business ventures In
strictly Mormon communities. There
Is not a Mormon community OF any
size-containing a few hundred people
or more-in Utah or any other state,
or any territory. where Gentles are
not doing business as successfully as
their abilities can command and con-
ditions generally warrant, and IL has
always been so, even from soon after
the beginning. The first store In Utah
OF any consequence (Livingston & Kin
caid) was a Gentle establishment, and
IL made money so fast that within half
"A dozen years as many more of the
same kind were planted here and all did
so well that they remained for many
years. These things are not only mat
tiers of history but TO a great number
OF people matters OF recollection also.
other things wholly
variance with the majority of the
statements contained in the Pearson's
article, not withstanding which the fol-
lowing piece Of unexampled effrontery
is put forth;
standing combined with the leading
Gentlles OF Salt Lake City in furnish
ing me the information which is here
set forth"
He keeps his footprints fairly well
covered In mentioning no names. Nor
mons In the highest standing. or low
est, either. are not noted for giving out
false statements regarding matters and
things in Utah. especially against their
own people and faith; and while some
few of the leading Gentiles" may be
so lost to self-respect and ordinary
justice as to do such things, the larger
part are not given to such unrighteous
decentralization. or like character
Is inc lHloTHdtlOn regarding tnc
Church and its deals with the q. o. p"
impaired by "men high in the councils
of the Republican party, Mormons OF
high standing and leading Gentiles OF
the Mormon section" We are then
advised that through ike" Trumbo the
Church paid 100000 as part considera-
ton FOR the admission of Utah to
statehood. the remainder being political
support. The vcraoious scribe then goes
on TO allege a criminal conspiracy be-
tween the Church and Roosevelt. who
was then a candidate for president, the
to the Church being the
Of the movement for q.
amendment against po-
lygnmy, defense of Reed Smoot, and |
patronage to be at the disposai
~ the hierarchy" the Mormon lead |
ers TO secure to him the electoral votes |
" Utah. Idaho and Wyoming. This deal, |
we arc advised, was ratified by Taft in |
sos. IL being declared one of the for |
ner's policies which the latter did take |
over
Surprising. now, the author Of the
foregoing were to be brought into court |
IN charge OF criminal libel for thess
in what manner could he
Justify himself? He ought to, III he
Toes not know that suspicion Is not
violence. belief is not evidence, hcarsay
especially that OF misunderstanding and |
interruptions cO-WoFherSb ~ NOT fNi-
fence, even suspicious circumstances
unless directly connected with tho |
in chief are not evidence.
4 IT. reasonable TO suppose that If hu
had had many other or better material
% rest a case upon, he would have
mentioned or made some reference to
{. so of course he figures upon maxi
ng his case through the credulity OF
he public and not counting upon being
brought into court. which Is probably
afe enough reliance. more's the pity.
3ut as against his Intellectual showing
made before the bar Of public opinion,
What a mighty showing in rebuttal can
IL madel The lives of men who have
ever been known 10 do dishonor>
BILE or disgraceful thing; whose career
II along and under every circumstances
as been as an open book who have
many times been placed In public sta
lon and never retired therefrom
through incompetency. deception or
of any kind whose
eracity has never been questioned even
y.the bitterest political opponents. and
hose home lives have been glad.
weet song" these will all cry out
like angels. trumpet tongued" against
ae infamy imputed to them by paid
slanderers OF high or low de-
rec.
As to the other parties in this cam
align of vilification, IL is no new thing
, them at all. one unprovoked as
sult more or less upon their record ana