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Show PEET'S OBSERVATIONS IN WASHINGTON. WASH-INGTON. Editor Truth: The report of tho late proceeding in tho Smoot Investigation Investi-gation has been suppressed and a now ono ordered printed. Tho known gross falsehoods of Charles Mostyn Owen, tho flagrancy of his perjury was too apparent to bo ovcflBoked; Among other things ho said that A. B. Hayes, ex-United States Senator Joseph Jo-seph Rawlins, Judge Howell, James Chlpman and many others whom ho knows to bo Gentiles wore Mormon3. After Judgo Hlles testified before the committee that Mr. Rawlins was a Mormon, Mr. Rawlln's wired tho com-i mlttee that Judge lilies' testimony was false. After that telegram to the committee com-mittee Owen had gall enough to repeat re-peat tho falsehood. Owen also manufactured man-ufactured plural wives for Mormons who never had but ono wife, and "accused" "ac-cused" very many Gentiles of being Mormons. After all that came tho glaring headlines and cheap talk of tho Tribune, and tho spread-eaglo statements of Rev. T. C. Iliff, Wesley Hill, Mrs. Schoff, Mario Weed, S. E. Wlshard, and others of tholr class, that now and startling testimony would be offered to tho Investigating committee if they would only reopen tho case. Tho reopening by these Utah knockers was an inglorious failure fail-ure heaped upon their former defeat The Wolf, a drunken debauchee, who slothed himself In tho vestments of a sheep and preyed upon tho peoplo of Utah for so many years, was looked upon by tho committee as a scrub and perjurer. Tho statement by Charles Smurthwaite that he Invested ?9,000 In tho salt business and mado $20,000 tho first year and then leased tho property for thirty ye"ars at'?G00' per year did not look as though tho Mormon Mor-mon church had ruined his business. I believe that Truth would llko to be -ulned In tho same way. The Trlbuno has been sent to every United States senator ever since tho Kearns fight against Utah began. be-gan. A senator from one of the southern states who was unfriendly un-friendly to Senator Smoot because of tho false stories ho had heard, decided decid-ed to watch tho testimony In tho recent re-cent hearing, stated seml-publicly the other day "that tho traltbrism, tho Ingratitude In-gratitude and tho apparant falsehoods of tho witnesses, together with libel lous statements of tho'Trlbuno and It's cartoons, which represented that these witnesses wero grinding Senator Smoot to powder," changed his views " In tho mattor. Tho peoplo who aro fighting Senator Smoot, ho further said, "Aro traitors to tholr own stato for all tho personal rovongo, graft, and religious persecution thcro Is In it?" Senators Burrows and Dubols,.wlll " V bo tho only members of tho commit- i tee who will mako a report' to ox- elude Senator Smoot. Thoy aro trying to drag tho caso along till tho end of V Mr. Smoot's term for thoy know that tho majority report will bo for Mr. ' ' Smoot. Instead of hurrying tho caso, standing up and taking their medl- clno llko mon, they aro now wiggling J like a lot of pollywogs In a rain barrel. Tho Christian Herald discovered j somo time ago that Kearns nnd Can- , non wero the two Moseses in Utah and f wero shining lights to guide tho way- ! ward feet of tho peoplo of Utah to tho j haven of love, purity, virtue, and i chastity. In tho Issue of tho Chris- tlan Herald of January 31st, was pic- ' turod two exceedingly bright stars of $ tho first magnitude In tho constolla- tlon of virtuous and God fearing mon. 'i The pictures of Senator Grandma ? Burrows and Senator Menaco Dubois, on tho first pago of tho abovo men- tlonpd paper aro so luminous that thoy outshine tho Mormon templo nnd tho i United States capitol that aro pictured pic-tured on tho same page. When I seo jj a paper llko tho Christian Herald hold- . J lng up such men as Thomas Kearns, Prank J. Cannon, Julius Caesar Bur- S rows and Fred T. Dubois, as leaders ;' In a campaign for tho purity of tho '. American women, it carries ono back to King Richard tho TJilrd when ho placed himself ' botwoen two clergy- ' men and held aloft a prayer book to J show tho peoplo how pious, and meek ho was. These men aro llko tho quack doc- '. for who Injects poisonous virus into ;' tho system of his patient so ho , cart j prolong his dally calls at so much per call. Many churchos havo thrown i open their pulpits to such peoplo ad tho abovo mentioned quartottb, "be-. Hevlng that they would receive Infor- j matlon about Utah and tho Mormons ( that would bo a benefit to them. In- stead, however, of getting tho facts, as j they aro, thoy havo been filled, with I tho deadly virus of religious porsecu- (Oontinued on page 8) i PEET'S OBSERVATIONS IN WASHINGTON. (Continued from pago 1) tion and hatred that caused them to rise up against Utah and try to override over-ride tho constitutional laws of this land through tho Instrumentality of petitions. Senator Dubois Is looked upon here as a mountebank with his hand out for tho long green. His sincerity In the Mormon question Is only measured by what there is in It for him. Tho following shows his bad tasto and ill-bredlng: ill-bredlng: Last week a meeting was held hero in a largo Episcopal church In honor of the 8Cth anniversary of Miss Susan B. Anthony's birthday. Senator Dubois was invited to speak. Instead of making tho mooting a pleasurable occasion ho threw a wet blanket on It by talking of tho horrors of tho "Mormon menace," much to tho disgust of everyone present. What made his talk still more Inappropriate was becauso It was in an Episcopal church, whoso fundamental rule Is never to ridicule, blackmail or attack another religious denomination. His talk was a direct thrust and an insult to Miss Anthony for ovor since Utah became a state sho has sung Its praise and held up tho Mormons as a type of liberality, for they woro tho ' first people to give their women their entire rights In regard to suffrage. Tho article in Truth of February 17th, "Newspapers as Frauds," was m vory favorably commented upon by the many friends Truth has In this city. It ought to show tho advertisers advertis-ers of Salt Lake how they have been so unmercifully gulled by tho Tribune Trib-une and Its satalites. The Inter-Mountain Republican is received hero with much favor. It supplies a long folt want In Utah for a daily Republican paper that Is Republican Repub-lican and not a hypocritical knocker. u The Republican should send two copies dally to tho Library of Congress. Con-gress. Yours truly, V. S. PEET. (, Washington, D. C, Feb. 24, iOOG. " |