| Show 1 Libel in Answered by Nephi Jensen ew weeks ago the Herald-Mican announced that Es and Fred T. Dubois were a series of articles Bt Utah to be published in and other eastern Herald-Republican because the first article Rout in Pearsons as was by the Richard Barry is writing the but but a series of Salt editorials worked H In a revengeful and Kearns is can to injure Utah and needs the was collected from eral but misguided people Recast in the Smoot Esther campaign of its kind Bw be started it will satisfy Beam's anger in a measure also fill Dubois' The following excellent the pen of the shows up the in Pearsons as Barry's article in the Kl of on Political Menace the opens with a gent that is utterly ends with an infamous the stuff between is a Ke of the BA Lie to Begin Ken words from the the article we have is the political j William H. for the he controls six I This statement is to be even funny if the author expected to be accepted as he must have thought that the only difference between his leaders and the inmates of mental is that his readers are in the Barry's Barry makes the startling revelation that the when they came to and held for nearly twenty a government in which custom and authority were all their I believe that is and there a reason for Passenger rates between Missouri and Salt Lake in those days were ten cents per mile and the Mormons were not flushed with money and could not afford to import Methodists and Presbyterians to govern them so long as there were Mormons who had ability enough to hold the offices and besides I never heard of a community which was exclusively importing Catholic politicians to make the laws and execute possibly Barry can an What- Brigham Young Brigham Young is represented as having said in and a kingdom people as a church will go from the West to the I don't know whether Brigham Young said this or but even if he he is not deserving of any particular because a man tor the reason by the name of sometimes called the made even i bolder statement about 1800 vears before Brigham Young's To Kingdom have become the of this world Kingdoms of our and of His and he shall reign forever The After telling the readers about Connors coming to Barry goes off at a tangent pronounces a fulsome eulogy on the To quote from the Irish blood is essentially essentially I doubt not that the Irish as a race are deserving of this but it would be interesting to know why Barry went out of his way to throw this posy at the feet of the sons of Can it be that he has been associating with that distinguished that exemplar of high that most of all the Tom Or are we to believe that the proverb is still ass his master and the his master's Then he pathetically reminds us that in its essence is which pleases me for I remember that the of Mormonism is faith in love of fidelity to the and devotion to all that is good and Judge O. 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Powers is quoted as having Mormon church always impresses upon its followers the necessity for Other churches do same only without because they xo because the V-ed-Tribune-Barry A two-paragraph statement of the Mormon dogma of continuous is followed by the following of how belief in the works Mormons accept this as every orthodox Mormon they surrender all right of private judgment and put their in the keeping of the This which is absolutely is based upon the false theory that the Mormons are bound to accept all commands or coming from their leaders as The church that it is the and duty of every when anything to be a revelation is presented to to exercise his own judgment and use his own intelligence and faith in determining whether or not it is a and that it is his right and duty to receive for himself the witness of the Spirit in relation to the matter before he acts upon When the doctrine of continuous revelation is understood in this there is absolutely no warrant for the assumption that the believers in that doctrine all right to private to Tribune-Barry Speaking further on the subject cf continuous is theirs to accept t the voice of the priesthood as the voice of To be this should is theirs to accept the voice of the priesthood as voice of when the voice of the priesthood is the voice of God and in each instance the members of the church have id it is held by the be their duty to know when the voice of the priesthood is the voice of Mormons in Good In concluding his treatment of the subject of continuous Barry makes a statement which every non-Mormon in Utah knows is false to Mormon secures undeviating says to deliver to Roosevelt i the electoral votes of Wyoming and If this is the one who received the votes is as bad as those who delivered but Roosevelt is regarded by the great majority of the American people as one of the most upright citizens of our great In view of it would at least have to be conceded that the Mormon leaders keep good Taft and Complaint is made of President because he went so far as to appear in public with dent This was surely fel-onous on the part of President but it was in perfect harmony with the highest sense of propriety and decency for Thomas who killed a man in committed an crime on a young girl in Salt and stole several hundred thousand dollars' worth of to introduce President Roosevelt to a Salt Lake in the summer of Tribune-Barry Church The church's declaration of 1907 in favor of the absolute separation of church and is followed by the insinuation that the declaration is not carried out in then the writer concludes that the ence of example from precept is just a little wider in the Mormon church than it is in other I don't know so much about the of example from in other churches but I do know other churches both teach and practice church influence in In June of 1907 I heard Charles W. then Vice-President of the United deliver an address' in the Methodist church in in th course of which he church may influence In they have a city ordinance which prohibits any one from preaching on the streets unless he has a permit signed by five resident ministers of the If a Mormon city counsel of Salt Lake City had passed an ordinance prohibiting any jane from preaching in the streets who had not a permit from five Mormon anti-Mormons around here would have gone frantic with rage and screamed themselves hoarse church and Tribune-Barry Crocodile With the air of one who is indicting a desperate the writer in Pearson's refers to the awful offence committed by the Mormon in prevailing upon President while on his visit to Salt Lake City last to so far forget the sanctity of the as to the Mormon school children on Sunday This conduct on the part of the Mormon leaders is spoken of as of the Sabbath to make a Mormon If Barry regards it a of the for the Nation's Chief to review a few thousand school children on Sunday then I should like to know what kind of a conception of religion he Can it be that he considers the crocodile tears and sanctimonious grimaces of ministers more holy than the rosy cheeks and smiling faces of |
