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Show TRUTH 6 ed? What right have you to claim superiority of morals and actions over Editor Truth I wish to supplement the people of this state? your excellent article in the Truth of son-Let us review some of the actions of of your members and preachers Jan. 2, How Long, Oh, Lord, How of this state. First I see the name of Long, and will gay at the commence- one, a murderer, who outraged and ment that 90 per cqnt of all the de- murdered two girls and burned their is famatory circulars and pamphlets dis- bodies ia his church, and now he an a from justice. Second, fugitive tributed in tho east about Utah and who committed the crime aiolteror, her people can be traced directly to In the church where he preached, and' PEET ON THE PREACHERS. - tho Ministerial association of this state and city. This association seems to be lying in wait like a hungry coyote at a chicken coop, and every time a Mormon rung for office or irakei a statement that docs not suit them, they bubble over with gall and rush letters, circulars ar.d petitions through the eastern states telling that the Mormons arc trying to get control of this nation, eo they can cram polygamy, blood atonement, etc., down the throats of the American people. Their last crusade on Senator Smcot is a fair sample of their work. They wanted to throw Senator Smcot out of tho senate, not by fair means. Oh, no! They wanted to convey to the minds of the people of the United States that Mr. Smcot was a polygamist. They looked among their members for a suitable man for that kind of work, and were not long in selectLeilich. They knew he had ing J. a record, they knew he was an enemy to this state and would say or do anything fair or foul to injure it. He was thoroughly advertised in the Salt lake Herald on January 19, 1902, and in the Truth, August 30, the same year, and in nearly cveiy copy of the Utah Meth-rdi'- t during the winter of 1902-3- . Many ne is also now a fugitve from justice. Third, an embezzler, who collected money for a church in Mercur and put the money in his pocket and skipped camera and went through the suburbs of Salt T ako and the immediate outlying district and took photographs of houses and all tho miserable old shacks lie could find, especially those that had more than cne frent door. These pictures, with a few photographs of Fort Douglas, he placed in an album to use in Ills lectures in the cast aeai'st Mr. Smcot. These photos ho exhibited bore to many of his friends, and said he wculd show the people in the eait a typical Utah Mor mon homr. lCvery front door Indicated a wife, and ho woul show the different homes, as he called them, till he get. to the nictures of the fort. Then ho woud stiike an attitude and say, Thl Je what makes it pcssible for a dentils to livo in Utah. Mary, if not all of this association knew that he would accuse Mr. Smoot of polygamy when he got to Washington. rml that was just what they v a ted. It. woud be something sensational and they know it would be published in nearly every paper in the country. Their scheme worked beautifully. How easy to yet signatures cn a portion agaicst Mr. Smcot, now for 99 out cf every 100, yes. 999 out of every 1,000, who signed the petiticn. believed that Senator Smoot was a polygamist. for a meek and lowly minister of the gospel, representing an association of meek and lowly ministers of tho gospel had made an affidavit to that effect. To such political e tadics a ward heeler or a politician will take off his hat. If honesty and fairness was the object aimed at, why did not this association send the Rev. Joseph Wilkes, one of tho oldest preachers in this state, one who had preached in Provo and lived neiehbor to Mr. Smoot, and probably knew more about him than any member? Now, Mr. Editor, I want to say a few words direct to this Ministerial association. I want to ask them a few que tions. What right have you to call yourselves the loyal and citizens of Utah? What right have you to thwart the will of the people of Utah by trying to unseat a senator who has been fairly and hocstly elect ser-ircn- DEnd of the . COMMEMCES MONDAY MORNING, JAN. 18 BIG PRICE law-abidin- g Sixth, another who sold building ts on the beautiful shore of Salt I ii near Saltair. He sold these lotVto people In Nebraska for $25 each no down and $1 per month. Seventh, another who, in company with notor- n dead-bea- t preachers from the south states, put his church and friends in debt. He also published a book with an obscene picture on the first page. His action became so gress In his congregation that they erased his name from the church and sent him back east. After leaving Uiah he was appointed pastor of a church n Indiana, and there he so grossly in-- ; suited a young married woman one evening that he was run out of town before morning, and in the summer of 1903 he assisted your association by lecturing against Utah and getting ! - r-r-n $C2-00- 0 signatures against Senator Smoot in Pennsylvania. Eishth, another who found that many families from Cairo, Neb., were moving to Bear River Valley, wrote to a fanner at Cairo, warning him about coming to Utah. He said he was preaching here, but was going to leave, because he had two daughter, and it was not safe to keep them in Utah, on account of the Mormons. Ninth, another who was suspended frem his conference in Ohio for misconduct, and he had not been in Utah lo"g before he said, with puch vigor, that Mormonism and poly gamv was a dark and hellish plot, and yet It was about one calendar month that kept this preacher from eing a polygamist. Tenth J. L. REDUCTIONS ON Mens, Ladies &.nd Childrens Shoes and Mens Boys and Chilerens Slippers. Clothing. Ladies and Misses Coats and Suits, Knit Underwear, Shirt Waists, Furs, Childrens Dresses, Wrappers, Rain Coa.ts, Etc,, Etc. Now, gentlemen, do you not know thet any other roeiety with such a rec- ord wculd be liable to be broken up h7 the police and its charter destroyed, and are there not more In vour s?ciety todav that are doing all hey ran to injure this state? You have a member that exhibited on the stJeets in this city not long avo. an nro"ymoui lead Pencil written lette-- . A Mormon. This letter a of vile stuff about this "tste n"d her ueople, and this preacher ed cn-aJne- d n-e- ss Your Dollars Are Worth Double at This Clearance Sale. "a'! it was true. SEE LARGE AD IN SUNDAY PAPERS. Utahs Greatest Department Store. . KJj. Da 1 bug-hous- . Clearance Sale I.-- . of this association knew that in the fall of 1902 this man Leilich tcok a to parts unknown. Fourth, a plagiarist, s who delivered one of Dr. Guards in this city as his own production. Fifth, a swindler who went to Plttston, Pa., and fold building lots in a suburb of this city, called Jordan Green, a low, marshy piece of ground between Eleventh and Twelfth South and Ninth and Tenth West. He put the people. cf Pittston in on the ground floor, he said, and sold them $500 lots ter 200. He sold four to one man, and fot his money. If these lots that this preacher sold were put in the best real estate agents hands in Salt Lake today, they would not bring $10 each. GOING EAST? If so it will pay you to secure complete information about the new service via. the ....... UNION PACIFIC AND CHICAGO, MILWAUKEE ST. PAUL LINE. & Information in regard to rates, stop-overetc , will be gladly furnished on application to . . . s, C. S. WILLIAMS, Coml Agent, 106 W. Second South St., Salt Lake City. Yru have another member who made his brag when lie return e l from England last fall that he hear! seme Mormon missionaries over thers praising Salt Lake and her people, and after this missionary was through speaking that he told the people that ether, or the tad side of Salt Lake. I3 this preacher a fiiend to Utah? Yo i have acther who, on November 16, 1903. told the pecple In Brooklyn, N. Y.. that the Mormcns in Utah were so bad that they will have to be subdued by the spilling cf the blood of human v,eings. You have another who wrote o a religious paper in Cincinnati, O., for publicaticn, warning tourists and settlers visitng Salt Lake that the pin drop and other things they saw and beard at the Tabernacle and on the streets were oly a flimsy gauze to hide the.Iriquity tack of it. You have another who recently, in Washington, D. C., lccked arms with Preacher McMillan, a man who bragged about carrying a revolver, who said Senator Smoot was a polygamist and that, many Utah Mormons were murderers. Now, gentlemen, you claim that your . society is for truth and. for the upbuilding of Utah and her people. If that is so, why did you send pamphlets to the eastern states with this clause on them: That the foul crime o! polygamy in Utah was spreading to the adjacent states and territories, corrupting public morals and dishonoring the American home? You knew that the above was false when you sent it out for distribution, and why did your association send to the Rev. W. S. Bartlett of Chicago on January 23, 1902, a circular which said, In part, That Mormon priestcraft invades property rights, its varied vices are destructive to goed morals, that the entire Mormon system was a return to the blackest heathen sensuality. You. |