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Show ELDERlcKAT TELLSOFWORK INENGLAND Anti L. D. S. Campaign in Britain Dying Out, He Says. The organized campaign against the work of the L. D. S. church in Iel BrMan- which has been marked mark-ed by defamatory statements and numerous brazen falsehoods. Is lessening les-sening and the number of persons who are willing to give the principles princi-ples of the church a fair hearing is growing daily. This is the chief point in a letter every quarter and daily our integrity integ-rity nnd honesty "are disposed of by a smile and a shrug"; but the number of fair-minded seems to be increasing daily, who are willing to accept the solcalled "Mormons" for what they are and not for what they are misrepresented to be. "In this regard, you will be glad to know that the editors of the daily press seem willing to recognize the fact that there are two sides even to this much-mooted "Mormon" qus-tlon qus-tlon It has been our policy, when libellous articles have appeared, to write brief but emphatic refuctatory letters directly to the editors urging among other things that-"It is time that all well-informed editors know the so-called "Mormons" as they are and not as they are pictured by a' misinformed public." The following from the "Bulletin," "Glasgow, under un-der the heading "Libelling the Mormons," Mor-mons," is illustrative of the tendency ten-dency to fairness nmiiifcfni k i t 'ut r -ucivay rrom the office or the European mission in Liverpool. Liver-pool. Though dated December 11 and mailed to go aboard the steamship steam-ship Berangarin sailing from Southhampton South-hampton December 12, the letter has just arrived. "Regarding our missionary work I am sure that many of vour renders rend-ers will be pleased to learn that the scurrilous lies and vituperous slander sland-er circulated throughout Great Brit-am Brit-am a year or so ago. have about spent their evil force, and the intelligent intelli-gent men nnd women are not now so averse to hearing the truth about L tah and her People," Elder McKav says. "It is true prejudice and sn Jicion are still lurking' in nearly press in printing either an explanation explana-tion or a retraction ; " 'My reference to Lord Birkenhead Birken-head who has just returned from his recent visit to Glasgow hrimrs me a note from the president of the Latter-day Saints in this country refuting the insinuations that Utah and the Mormons especially are interested in-terested in the emigration ' of any particular class of British subjects In the investigation referred to by Lord Birkenhead, the correspondent points out that the British government govern-ment proved to its satisfaction that they charged that 'Morman' missionaries mission-aries are inducing girls to go to Utah Is a libellous falsehood withoru ' foundation in fact" |