The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1910-08-12
THE KIND "EXPoSITOR.

We desire to call attention to the
fact that the Deseret News a short
time ago called the Nauvoo Ex-
positor "the most infamous sheet of
paper ever printed under the Ameri
can flag" and In competition Herewith,
to show that the church organ S
hatred of the paper that was willfully
destroyed by order of Joseph Smith
is founded upon the same cause that
gives life to it's present enmities. The
fault with the Expositor then was
Identical with the shorrcoming of The
Tribune today, in the opinion of the
News-that is insisting upon telling the
truth, and refusing to be a party
to the sins and crimes committed under
the guise of religion. In part, the fol
lowing states the Expositor s position:
We intend to tell the whole tale and
by all honorable means to bring 10 light
and justice those who have long fed
and fattened upon the purse, the prop
erty. and the character OF injured inno-
cencei yes, we Will speak, and that too
in thunder tones. to the ears OF those
who have thus ravaged and laid waste
fond hopes. bright prospects. and yirtu-
Gus principles. TO crafty an unhallowed
ambition, We are aware of the critical
position we occupy. In view OF our i'm
fears. our purpose is fixed and our arm
is nerved for ~, conflict we stand upon
our rights and will maintain those rights
whatever may be the consequences.
Under the circumstances existing in
Nauvoo at that time the Expositor
exhibited heroic courage. 1t was
within the power (and certainly proved
to be in the disposition) of the pro-
moters of infamy that ruled the
Mormon church to destroy the property
and even to take the lives of opponents,
as was often done, Aside from the
gross immoralities practiced by the
higher of the Mormon high priests,
they perpetrated innumerable acts Of
injustice that would not have been
tolerated in any community uncon~
trolled by them These gross wrongs
had become unbearable to the honest
members of the Mormon church. They
had made their protests in private
and had appealed co the honor of the
tyrants. They had begged and prayed
that evil doing cease in order that
the church might proceed to the frui-
tion Of their fond hope of redemp-
ton for mankind, Their appeals had
been Knocked and they were personally
derided, threatened, and ostracized. All
overtures seeking betterment of the
filthy condition had been spurned with
the most fragrant impudence. When all
means of a private nature had been
exhausted and found to be utterly I'M
potent to cope with the situation and
its creators, the honest among the Nor
mon people determined that they would
inaugurate public campaign that
would have for its object thorough
cleansing of the church from the evil
that threatened it's destruction. The
Expositor became the mouthpiece of
these men, and no sooner had it begun
to expose the malignant prophets than
it was wiped out of existence under the
tyrannical authority conveyed to the
lawbreakers in the Infamous Nauvoo
Charter.
Here is an illustration of the
hierarchical method: A man named
Jeremiah Smith came to Nauvoo. He
was a fugitive from justice, having
procured four thousand dollars from the
United States treasury under false pre-.
lenses. A bill of Indictment agair-t
him had been found in the District of
Columbia, and upon that warrant for