Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1910-03-19
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Tho Church organ has not failed, as
the amiable Tribune says.-it used TO
bo refused; IL is failed now,-to
print any fact OF public interest that
has come 20 us from reliable sources.
regarding infractions Of the Church
rule. Anyone interested in that subject
can turn 20 our columns for corrobora-
ton OF this statement But the
News has refused. or failed. 10 ac-
cept as facts the stories concerning
Church members. which have found
their way into the Tribune columns
from the vile dumping ground Of gos-
SIN and scandal. Rumors are not facts
They do not become facts because they
are picked mp and circulated for
political purposes.
We may say here. that scandals con-
corning Church members are not the
only ones excluded from the columns
of the News" as long as they are
not public property. And even when
they become public. It Is not our GUS
tom 90 display them. The News does
not gloat over stories that come 10 10
OF oscapades I'm Victoria alley, and
other places, in which prominent nom
"Alormons' may figure. because they
are non-"M ormons" We do not ac-
cept as facts whatever rumor may
have 10 saw about prominent "Ameri-
cans owning stock in the Infamous
"stockade": why. then, should the
News" nsh out anything that may be
floating round In the gutter-literature
Of the Tribune?
But YOU say that the News by
ignoring the rumors and tales OF the
Tribune, condoues the infraction Of the
law and the church rule. Not at all.
You viii search i'm vain i'm the columns
OF the News" for anything that can
be construed as a defense. or an ex-
cuse. for wrong doing. And that IS the
chief point
We believe, and we have always be-
ueecd. that Il Is the duty of every
Church member to obey the Manifesto,
as accepted by the church In Confer
enca assembled. The Latter-day saints
cannot say one Trims and do another.
They. OF all Gods children, must be
true. and consistent, for they are wit
nesses TO the world Of the grandest
truths ever revealed. Whatever their
shortcomings otherwise may be- they
must be true and they can be true.
And. Furthermore, the Latter-day
saints have been true. IN this respect
when an the circumstances are
weighed, the wonder u.s. not that there
have been sporadic cases of plural
marriage. but that such cases have
been so few."-Addrcss 20 the World,
page "a.
our position is perfectly clear on this
point. to all who are not blind, or who
win not see. We do not defend, or
excuse, wrongdoing on the part Of
church members Al the same time
we denounce the contemplate practices
OF the l-"Mormons" who are anti
"Mormons' only for political purposes;
who use character assassination as a
means 20 political ends; we denounce
the demagogucs who like Demetrius OF
Old. are on1sting bigotry IN the service
the American flag with the smoke from
the fires Of persecution. For that IS
what the activity OF the anti-"Aior-
mons" amounts 70. We cannot but
with one Of the great speakers at a
meeting OF the Evangelical Alliance.
years ago. cry: shame 10 all perse-
cutors," hut, double shame 10 Ameri-
can citizens who in this land Of liberty
prosecute with falsehood and mlsrepre-
sensations "a religious body that has
done so much good for the develop
ment Of tho country and that should
have every right that any other religious
body enjoys! No other church is being
systematically attacked because OF the
individual Iapses OF few members.
Il is this we denounce as persecution,
and as particularly villainous in a
country over which waves the beauu-
fffI American lag