The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1910-10-22
American Flag Tied TO Axle of
Vehicle in Which Daniel
II. Wells Rode.
REPUTABLE CITIZENS OF
ZION WITNESSED OUTRAGE
Refutc Statements Made by
Apostolic Lawbreaker.
Heber j. Grant.

One Hcber j. Grant who in the long
AGO WAS chrstened the "laZlest boy III
the Thirteenth ward Of Salt Lake
CITY. who was born in 1876, eight days
before his father s death, who became
an APOSTLE. who ran AWAY from Utah be
tween two davs 10 escape arrest as n
polvramist who took his plural wltc
with him 10 Japan when he was sent
there as a law defer and a law breaker
as n missionary 10 bring souls unto the
master. who is hlasphemcr rs ne Is
also law breaker. who has boaSted OF
his polyeamous living and III an address
Ia Young men and women in the Cnl-
vcrsitv OF Utah declared his bciicf IN
polycamy. and wished that he could
have more wivcs-question An ahdaNrt
made bv the late Martin Hardness oil
Utah.
Mr. Hardness. who came 10 Utah IN
ISIS, who was u reputable citizen, VINO
fought tho hierarchy Of which the bias
phcmer. Grant, is n member. made am.
,layit that tho American flag was trallcd
in the dust and trampled upon by The
people, trailcd under carnage IN
which Daniel H. Wells rode IN triumph
from tho pepitontiary from which he
had been released ais Incarceration lor
contempt of tho United Suites court
HarkDeSS witnessed outrage.
Martin Hardness. thcn a resident OF
Salt Lake City. witnessed this outrage
TO the flag of his country. Knowing
that after hc had passed away, liars aud
hypocriics would DENY the historical
faci Ia protect their own treason TO tho
government Of ihc United States. he
Volunteered IN affidavit setting forth
tho fact of the trailing of The Amer
can llag in the dust of its being tram
< pied upon by people to show their
contempt for inc country against whom
thcy were traitors.
This aflidavit of Martin darkness WAS
printed in The Tribune on Thursday
morning. Mr.. Hardness was an eye wit
ness to the outrage.
Apostle Orson f. Whitney, IN whose
alleged history of Utah appears the
story Of the Triumphant return of Dan.
icl H. Wells from the pcnItcntiary. did
mol mention the fact that the American
6ag was iraicd in tho dust He was
and is historian who wrote as directed
BY The hierarchy 70 protect a gang oi
s Traitors TO their country. II was this
alleged history that caused Martin !
Harkpess TO make the affidavit which |
The Tribune printed
.f Facts Wero Preserved.
Martin Hardness knew the gang. He |
knew The alleged apostles He knew
all the alleged mouthpieces of Almighty ,
God who claim TO hold direct commuu
ION with the Most High. He knew how
lnsinccrs they were. He knew they |
were liars. lie knew they would per
vert history 10 conceal their own shame
their own wlckodncss, their own traitor
ous actions. therefore he wanted TO and .
did preserve IN historical fact in Utah .
which showed how The hierarchy were +,
traitors TO their country and their flag. /
Martin Uarknes5 knew that the end I
was near ior him; knew that persons
like Heber !. Grant would question his
Statements unless they were fortified; !
SO no had a number of others who had /
witnessed the trailing OF the flag in he .
dust under the carriage which carried 1
Daniel r. Wells in triumph from the 1
peuitentiary make afiidavits aud those |
afidavits were turned over 10 The Trib.
une.
Stand UP, Apostle Grant
VIII, Apostle Heber j. Grant say !
that L. d. Burhngame. a respected cit
zen Of Salt Lake, now living at 261 |
made affidavit with the lato Martin |
Hnrkness that the flag was trailed in
the dust as Martin Hardness statcd7 !
VIII this apostolic bypocritc say that /
j. w. Harvey, Il respected citizen OF |
Salt Lake now, lied when he, too, states
.nat tDe outrage upon the nag as stated |
by Martin Hardness did occur and that .
he witnessed it,
( VIII he question the state |
ment Of n. &. Mcmillan, chairman
OF the board Of public works OF Salt
Lake City and most estimable citi- |
zen who likewise witnessed the trail.
ing Of the flag in the dust as stated by
the late Martin Harkuess7
But why enumcrateY The gentlemen
named witnessed the outrage. They !
were here at the time il occurred. They |
We're Gentiles. They had no AK TO !
grind. They were not then nor now
protecting traitors TO the country. Can
apostle Grant say as mucbl