The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-04-23

TRUTH FROM HEAVEN
No One Need Fear the Growth of the
Faith for 1t is the Real
Thing He De-
cIares.
[Gate City Leased Wire Service. |

lGate City Leased Wire Service.l
SALT LAKE CITY, Utah, April %
With the statement that the accusa
tions made against the Mormon
church have become unbearable and
that it is time for the church of this
faith to listen and make answer to
the charges, President Joseph +
Smith of the Mormon church, has
come out with a complete denial OF all
charges and has presented formal
request for federal or state investi-
cation of the church and its workings.
The formal request has been made
through the columns of the Desert
News, the official organ OF the
church In the statement issued un-
der date of April 90, Smith says:
Il will help in every way can to
conduct an investigation of condl-
tions and charges. want to see these
things run to earth and the truth
| established. The records and the
facts are obtainable and formally re
quest that the investigation be made
by the federal government if possible.
| State officials here will attend the
4 prosecutions in all cases. ! alleSe
! that pologamy is absolutely forbidden
1 and that the other charges made IN
current magazine articles are without
4 foundation
President Smith discusses first the
charge that the church violated Ger
tain pledges to the national govern
ment He replies that the charge is
absurd because the compactS De
tween Utah and the government upon
i which statehood was achieved were
not made, and, indeed, could not be
made by the church or its author
i ities.', The only compact, he declar
ed, the church ever made with the
i government was that concerning pol
ogamy and he maintains that this has
been carried out to the letter Hls
statement adds. tSuch violations o
these positive declarations as have
been reported, wherever proven b.
sufficient evidence, have been deal
with by church tribunals and th'
offenders have been disciplined o
excommunicated This course vii
be maintained, with due regard to tn
rights of the individuals and the law
| of the church. common rumor o
+ gossip without evidence being insu1
ficient in trial either civil or et
: clesiastical
a nAs to the insinuation that tn
y church has broken compact not t
dominate again in political matters
I we challenge the production of an
d such pledge. There is no such agree
/ ment to be found The authorities G
L the church never assumed to dlctat
G Ia members politically The churc
). never attempted to dominate th
n state, and has not done so since u
II constitution was framed. There al
a political aspirants who have attemp
D. ed TO dominate the church and wh'
d failing in their endeavors, have b.
Y come so rancorous in their disappoin
n ment that they waste time, money an
e reputation in fighting the church an
e those officers thereof who have +
L. fused to employ the influence thus d
cried.
" CHARGES of disloyalty, treason, an
1f kindred absurdities that appear fro
Ie time to time to disturb the publ
or mind, are sufficiently answered by Il
S response which have been made !
se variably when our country has calle
S, for aid in times of war or seasons
le peace,
te "All the monstrous tales told of Il
I'd wealth at the command of the hea'
I'd of the church are distorted, eman
tions from disordered brains, or W
ful untruths manufactured In ORD
to deceive the public.
1--WE love our country and pray I
~ the president of its government,
n support it's institutions, we Venera
iy the constitution. We are proud of 0
ID. state and no one on the face of Coo
OF footstool need fear the growth al
sr spread of 'Mormonism, for it is t
as truth revealed anew from heaven.
Id -
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