Show AN OPEN LETTER TO THE COMMERCIAL CLUB 7 of the Commercial Club Please pardon us for not writing to you last The Utah Independent was so full of good stuff then that there was no room for your We are very glad to note that our letters have had some effect on We were delighted to know that some of your members laid down the law to the We were filled with joy when we learned that some of your independent members told the Tribune that it must cut out either polygamy and other anti-Utah matter or their advertisements and their The Tribune laying down now in the midst of its sham battle shows that it is the biggest liar and ingrate on or that it is an arrant If the people of Utah are one-quarter as bad as the Tribune has proclaimed them to for the last for that sheet to its and take to the woods even at your shows that it is the sum total of deceit and fawning and it should be suppressed for its Uriah Heep Your work with the Tribune is not that sheet must change its name and the remainder of its managers and the world should know that the people of Utah suppressed that vile The Tribune has said so much that is false and injurious about Utah that it will be quoted by Utah and to refute such quotations it will have to be known that the Tribune was so vile and untruthful that the people of Utah suppressed Utah has many enemies when abroad who pretend to be its friends at M. Paden of the First Presbyterian church is one of If Paden can write a letter or have an interview in the eastern press that will put Utah in a false light and slander her he takes delight in so The following clipping from the Philadelphia Record of last week shows how the Tribune's false and famous list of po- is circulated by Paden and It is Paden 's church that is sending out the Tribune anti-Utah tracts by the hundreds of Here is the press Woman Declares All Its Principles Are Highly the system of Mormonism is a menace to the American people was emphatically declared yesterday morning by R. D. vice-president of the Woman's Board of Home Missions of the Presby- terian in an address delivered at the Cham-bers-Wylie Presbyterian who has spent a great deal of time in Mormon communities studying conditions stated that polygamy has by no means been abolished in To support her statement she read a letter to her by W. M. pastor of the First Presbyterian in Salt Lake and formerly of this Paden's Letter and the Tribune she read not We have things stirred up here on polygamy lines more thoroughly than for many The Tribune has listed over cases of and I personally know at least two of the apostles have privately acknowledged that this list is virtually Of we know that if they acknowledged so there are very many Mormonism in Utah's Public added that Mormonism was being taught in the public schools of and that every class of to whom a Gentile teacher would refuse to teach was taken after school A. hours to a separate building where were forced upon So strong have the Mormons she that the teaching of Mormonism is she was contrary to American principle of barring the teaching of any creed from the public Speaking of the oaths which characterize the Mormon Those Treasonable Paden system is one of oaths from beginning to V- and none is more treasonable than that which Senat-or Reed Smoot has both taken and administers to those go through the Endowment This is the and I don't believe you can find a more able do solemnly swear before Almighty-God His angels and these that the blood of Joseph and Hyrum Smith shall be avenged on this If I fail to keep this oath my tongue shall be torn from my my heart cut out and my bowels cut This is the oath that United States Senator Reed as an administers to those who pass through the Endowment It was Paden who the people of the East through every paper in Philadelphia on February that there were harems in Utah and that 85 of them were in Salt Lake He also said that Senator P. C. Knox was a Paden was advertised to give several addresses in the of but when he found that there was a Salt Lake man in Philadelphia at that who would call him down for his he was too timid to make even one In another speech by Paden in the Waugh M.- E. D. C. he said polygamy was increasing in whom Paden delights to write to is an old Utah slanderer she will say anything to injure Utah and Paden knows that is why he sends her the Tribune The Tribune must be that will kill all quotations from Yours V. S. 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