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Show I FALSEHOOD AND INTOLERANCE. A recoct Ismio of Now York's slur "yellow" Journal, ruu by a notoriety-seeking notoriety-seeking Indlvldtiitl named Hurst, pub. llslics whnt It denumlmites as a picture of President Lorenzo Snow and family. In part thu Journal ays: "Hero Is proof that Lorenzo Snow's statement concerning 'tho Implied tin dcrstandlng with tho nation when Utah entered tho Union ns a State,' or In other words that the Mormons renounced re-nounced polygamy and gave up polygamous polyg-amous relations, Is an ithsoluio falsehood. false-hood. It ts a photograph of Lorenzo Snow, his live wives mid forty-nine of Ids children. Tho picture was taken nt a family U'tinlon held only last August. Au-gust. It Is declared thut thctm arc not all of President Snow's wives or children, child-ren, Thero Is prntly good evidence Hint he Is the father of more than sixty children. It is siild Hint he has boun married to several women since tho Mormons swore tn ubnndon polyg-ntn.v. polyg-ntn.v. To got around tho Inw, It Is declared, the uinrrlages were celebrated either in Mexico or Canada. There Is ample proof.cvcn if thn photograph did not show It ho well, that President Snow has not censed polygamous relations rela-tions wllh his wives slneo tho 'Mani festo,' or since the 'understanding with tho Nation.' The original photo-graph photo-graph of which this is a reproduction Is In tho possession of tho Presbyterian Hoard of Homo Missions, and tho copy Was furnished to the Journal by the Kuv. William R. Campbell, for twclvo yonrs a Prosbytorlau mission worker In Utah." Tho Doscrot News very properly calls tho Journal down in vigorous stylo for Its barefaced falsehoods, among tho statements of tho Naws being tho assertion as-sertion that President Snow has not had a plcturo taken for tlftoon years nml that none of tho group reproduced by tho Journal resemble either him or nny mombor of his fumlly. Wo my say that this Is only another Instanco of tho despicable tootles bolng ndopted by tho enemies of Utnh to defeat this Statu In its representation In Congress. As to tho church phasu of the mutter tho News States that "Rev." Mention was "a notorious, preacher, who figured some lime ngu, very little to his credit, at Mention, (Jacho county, Utah. His reputation for varaclty among hts neighbors and associates wns of the vory worst, Allldavlts cau bo turnlshed whenever necessary to provo that his word is worthless, and that he scruples at nothing to vilify the ''Mormons" und further his own'ouds." Wo dou't know Mention, but wo do know others who prolix tho title "Itov." to their slgnnturo, who llko him would scruple at nothing to defeat the "Mormons" "Mor-mons" nud to I ncrcnsj their contributions contribu-tions from tho E.tst, It Is a case whore those whoso doctrine should bo "penco on oarth, good will to.vnrd men," are lending their aid to notoriety-seeking, journalistic wolves, who know nor care for either truth or justlco. |