The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1910-11-14
Apostle Joseph +. Smith, Jr.,
Defames the People of
Salt Lake.
DOES THIS in TALK MADE
IN STAKE CONFERENCE
Neglected to Give Real Facts as
to When immortality Was
Rampant Here.

At the quarterly conference of Mil
lard stake of Zion held at Deserct Oh
the 9Th and 7th inst there were pres
cnt two Of the general authorities of
tho church, viz: Apostle Joseph Ir
Smith, jr., of the council Of the
twelve, and Edgar Young of the prcsid-
ing quorum of seventy. The Fillmore
Progress in its report Of the confer.
ence says:
The visiting elders were tho principal
speakers and treated variety OF sub
jects and gave much valuable and timely
advice. The parents were counScled to
keep their girls from Salt Lake, whore
immortality is rampant under N wicked
administration In speaking on tenn
pcrance we were told that there arc 16e
saloons In the state. but not one pf them
is kept by Mormon.
This is the kind of rot that the high
ccclesiasts deal out to the stake con
fercuces. When they declare that i'm
morality is rampant in Salt Lake City
and the administration is wicked one
these ccclcsiasts know they arc utter
ing deliberate .falschood. immortality
is not rampant in Salt Lake.
When City Was Wicked
The only wicked administration that
Salt Lake ever had. the only time that
immortality was rampant was when the
ccclcslasts were IN absolute control.
s,Thc visiting elders" should have told
the conference that when immortality
was rampant in Salt Lake was when &C
clesiusts ran a house of i'll reputc on
South West Temple street when peep
holes were bored through the walls OF
this house, when the police gumshocd
about the place in order 10 catch Gen
tiles who had been inveiglcd into the
dive by coppcrs Of the ccclesiasts, nm
der false pretensc; when padded walks
were laid about the dive TO dcadcn
noise made by police so they might
glue their eyes to these peep holes;
these elders should have told the con
ference that tho ccclesiast who, rs agent
for the church, procured the women for
this bonsc of i'll repu'c was indicted,
tried and convicted in the courts of
Utah; that the woman who was his
right bower in this house of i'll reputc
was also indicted aud returned here
from Denver, whittier she had gone to
escape the vengeance of tbe law, and
that after she had testified she dis.
appeared and the story is that she was
taken 10 the grounds cast of the city
cemetery by her friends 90 ostcnsibly
to aid in again getting her out OF the
state, but where in reality she was
murdered and her body buried in the
cemetery.
When Church Owned Saloon.
These elders should have told the
conference that the Mormon church ec-
clesiasts ran q saloon in Salt Lake
City. over the door of which was the
placard "Holiness to the Lord, - and
was known as the City Liquor Store,
where tithing scrip was received and
booze given in return; that was open
practically all the time, and that any
person over IA years of age could OBJ
tain liquor there by applying for it;
and that there was no restriction rs
to sex, and when this saloon was sold
that there was tab for $4,000 against
Brigham Young. This was when the
administration WIS a wicked one, when
immortality was rampant, when the ec-
clesiasts absolutely controlled the city.