The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1910-12-13
A FAKE CLEARANCE.

According to the communication the
distinction of a place on its editorial
page, the Deserct News, in its issue
Friday, December o, 1910. printed let.
Ter from the sold country II was
purported 10 have been written by
Walter II. Marshall, Esqr., of the
Corporation Steam Ferries, Sutherland,
England. In part, the communication
said;
II will np doubt be pleasure to YOU
TO know mat his majesty's government
arc satisfied with their Investigations
regarding Your people I'm America and
see no reason for interfering with The
work OF the elders in Great Britain.
So far as any person here knows Eek
ccpting, possibly, some of the chief au.
tborities of the Mormon church,, no in.
vcstlgatiou of the sort described by Mr..
Marshall has been had in Utah If any
inquiry at all has been made, doubt less
il was either through personal inter
view with the president of tho Mormon
mission in Europe, or by communication
addressed TO that gentleman, or by let.
tcrs which passed between the supposed
Investigators and tho heads of the
church here. No doubt thay went to
- headquarters as the News always
advises persons to do who desire to get
information upon the Mormon ulos.
tlon, In that event, there can be no
surprise felt over the fact that the re.
suits wero entirely satisfactory to the
church. Anything of this nature given
out from headquarters, or by men in
foreign lands representing headquarters,
would be so colored (absohtcly without
regard to tho truth) as TO lead tho
recipient of the outgivimg to conclude
that butter would not melt in the pious
prophetic mouth
We have no doubt whatever that il
investigation were made of the subject
with leading men Of the church as the
only witnesses therein, no such truths
as the following wcrc discovered; That
the Mormon church made a pledge
with the Government of the United
States that the leading men of tho
cult would abstain from interfering
with and dominating the exercise of
the political franchise by their fol
lowers; and that they have ruthIcssly
broken that pledge. That the church
leaders made solemn covenant with the
Nation that the practice of polygamy
IN the church should be abandoned and
entirely cease on and after October q,
1890; and that this solemn covenant has
been repudiatcd and the obnoxious
practice continued. That The Tribune
has printed the names Of two hundred
and twenty Mormon elders who have
entered into polygamy since the year
1880, together with the assertion that
has number did not comprise more than
Ten per cent Of the whole. provided We
could further break the deep secrecy
surrounding these crimes to the cx.
oosure of them in completeness.
The trouble with this purportcd in
Tcstigation is that it has been con.
luctcd on lines too often observed in
such mattcrs-mercly asking the sup.
,osed aggricvcd parties and altogether
gnoring the men who make the ac-
'H@d'iobo' nc II ITlDuu4 mas 0itcn
proved its case against tho Mormon
.hurch leaders, and it stands ready to
'cpcat the proof to any fair in.
'csti -ator who will look into both
idcs of the question.
Now, We arc not advocating any IN
crfercpcc with the work of Mormon
'ldcrs in Great Britain. Our object is
% have the truth made known The
'lders 60 forth into tho world pretend.
pg TO proclaim truth aud to teach
In nipety-ninc cases our
# each hundred we have no doubt that
hese men arc sincere But We in.
list that when the matter Of poIyeamy
S brought forward they seem to be al.
ogcthcr unable to resist the tcmpta
ION TO lie; or expose their ignorance of
he facts in the brazen assertions
hey make, but which they arc unable
o maintain by any reliable proof.
1t is here asserted that if the British |
fiicIals were aware of actual conditions
'ere in this State under the herarchicaI
ule. financially, commercially, politi- |
ally, and polygamously. tho Mormon |
Iaboring in that country
ponld meet difficulty that heretofore |
hey have never dreamed Of.