Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1914-08-04

who listened to Mr.. Cannon on the
Webster City Chautauqua platform
heard not single sentence that the
most prejudiced Imagination could
convert into an extravagant fulmin-
alton. Mastery restraint marked his
every utterance. This characteristic
is true of his writings as we'll as OF
his speech. No man ever bore into
the fray kinder heart or champion
ed a great cause with more tender
ness for his foes. He ever speaks of
Mormons in the kindliest terms. If
the eagle" will read, Under the
Prophet in Utah." and the recent
book, Brigham Young and His Nor
mon Kingdom" both from the pen
of Senator Cannon, it will be the
first to admit the unjustness Of the
first item in its indictment of the
man from Utah.
(2.) AS to the truthfulness of
Senator Cannon's presentation Of
the present day Mormon menace, the
Freeman-Tribune believes that the
mark of veracity is Individually i'm
pressed upon both his speeches and
his writings. If Senator Cannon is
speaking falsely, or if he is hand
ling the Mormon situation unfairly,
we beg leave to call for bill of par
ticulars. The facts are easy Of ac-
cess. No one knows the bottom facts
better than does Senator Cannon. In
the negotiations which brought am
nesty to the Mormons and statehood
to Utah, Senator Cannon bore a
leading part. He was the accredited
ambassador of President Woodruff,
and he was also the tribune of the
Mormon people. He pleaded and
won for them their cause, and so he
has first-hand knowledge of the in
ner history of church and state. 1t
is doubtful whether the present
prophet of the Mormon church has
closer or more accurate frst-hand
knowledge of the church and it's
aims than has Frank j. Cannon. His
great book, Under the Prophet in
Utah." is fat with authoritative in
formation upon the strange story of
prescription, anarchy, amnesty,
treachery and traitorhood in Utah.
The Mormon church has not essayed
an answer. Not single fact in his
book has been successfully contro-
verified. His lecture puts into spok-
en- form the heart of his book. He
has written and spoken the Mormon
hierarchy into silence. If there
were open joints in his armor, the
highly trained and skillful contro-
versialists of the Mormon church
would long ago have found them out
with deadly shafts. In most temper
ate language Senator Cannon lays
the simple facts Of the strange sit
uation before the people of the Unit
ed States. In due time his appeal to
the nationa! jury will doubtless
bring a verdict against the Mormon
church in American politics.
CO. In it's protest against the ap-
peal to prejudice the Eagle" is
singularly unhappy and wide of the
facts. In the case against the Nor
mon church an appeal to prejudice
would doubtless be along religious
lines. About the religious claims of
Mormonism the people of the United
States have made up their mind. On
that side the case is closed. Golden
plates and Egyptian script, angels
visits and supernatural revelations,
voices from heaven and a new bible
meant for the whole earth-on these
points, and on the question Of the
divine right of the Mormon priest
hood to rule either spiritual or tenn
poral affairs in the twentieth CEN
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