Show ENEMIES v V S Peet Discusses Them in Caustic language To The Herald I have Just received a n copy COP of BC the Christian Advocate of Nov No 2 28 In II ir which w b is an article written by J L 1 superintendent of the Methodist mis missions missions stone in Utah The heading of this article is Mor 1101 Mormon Mormon mon Slavery II I In this article Mr Leilich seems to regret that Utah was allowed to become a state for fol he lie says sas by inference that since then the Mor Mm mons mona control the public schools that no teachers are hired In the public schools of oC Utah unless they ther believe belie that Joseph Smith was a prophet and says further that in June last an attempt was made mad to dismiss Gentile teachers from the public schools of Salt Lake and the teachings of at the Gentile and Mormon schools are antipodean it is a base and enslaving despotism He also says that the Mormon hier boor hierarchy hierarchy archy insists that Mormonism be taught in the public schools and in addition thereto wants the 10 per cent of each salary as tithing for forthe the church In answer to the above aboc I would say that the public school system of ot this state as In all other states is Js by law and sectarianism is for bidden by this law to be taught In the public schools and further that there are more Gentile teachers t in the public schools today too a than before Utah became a state There are no better state or public schools in America than tha the Utah schools It has been my privilege to bring to Utah several Methodist and Baptist tr teachers and J In every instance they have obtained schools from Mor Mormon i imon mon man directors and not in one instance I was the question of religion lori mentioned and in one instance the eastern teach teacher I er a Methodist received 1 15 more per month than the regular pay on ac account count of her ability and experience We Ve have two state schools the Agricultural Agricultural Agri Agni cultural college and the University of ofU Utah Uth U lh and considering the population in this state no better state institutions can ean be found elsewhere and while i 75 5 per cent of the students of these schools are of Mormon parentage 50 per cent of the teachers are Gentile If any one will visit the schools of Utah and look into the bright and anti in faces of or the he will know that they are not taught by en enslaving enslaving slaving despots What a gross insult to Utah teachers by b this man LelUch who has been here less than one year ear To show his hatred and animosity to this state and ami its people Mr Leilich goes way back to 1557 and brings up the Mountain Meadow massacre and takes for tor his authority one of John D DLee Lees Lee s confessions In one he said that Brigham Young had bad nothing to do with the Mountain Meadow massacre and andr r another that he be did Bishop Simp Simpson son san on of the M 11 E H E church once said that e S story half told was a lie Mr Leilich takes the Lee confession that suits his article the others he be says nothing about and If Mr Leilich really thinks that Lee told the truth in the confes confession sion elan imi he lie speaks of it was a crime to execute him because in every one of or his confessions he said he was inno cent While Mr r is I 1 ranting at th the Mormons and bewailing the fact that the Methodist schools have been closed had and Methodism has fallen behind since Utah became a state let us look into the cause caus and see what the Methodists have done for Utah We Ve will not go goback goback back beck to 1857 we will go back less than thana a decade In less than a decade the Methodist church has sent Utah the following as preachers and mission missionaries missionaries missionaries aries They have haTe sent us a Scandinavian vian preacher who murdered two girls and burned their bodies bodles in the furnace of the church In which he preached in inthis Inthis inthis this city They have sent us an adult who who after after being being balled out 01 or of jail au jumped his ball bail bond and arid left for fOt parts unknown They sent us a preach preacher er who woo pirated ted one of Dr Guards printed sermons and delivered it in iro Salt Lake as his own production They The sent us an embezzler who collected funds for an M E B E church in Mercur and then decamped d with the money They sent seat a us another whose actions were so 80 gross sros In ln the h where he be preached that they erased his nam naJM from the church and sent him back rom front whence be he came After looKing over me toe i anoe eat Is Isit is isita it ita a wonder that the M 1 E church has not BOt maintained its schools Mr Lel Lei Leilich LelUch lich Uch is not satisfied sati with besmearing Utah with mud find but he throws a large lar e echt chunk cht into Idaho Idah for he says that the theRoman theRoman theRoman Roman Catholics whom be he denominates denominates ates ales the inveterate enemy of the pub public lie lic schools and the Mormons have formed a combination against the Gentiles and today the Mormons control the public schools in the fair valleys of Idaho I will quote a para paragraph paragraph paragraph graph from his article arti le It is a most difficult task to impress upon the minds of the people in in the east the true condition of affairs in Utah that mission work here is most difficult owing to the fact that the force ar an arrayed rayed ayed against God and he evangelical evan church poses under the ilie garb or of re Te ligion that its people are and bigoted unlearned and il II literate and under the domination and P l Sten ot that the basest st passions of humanity are pan dered to tu that vices k 5 and sins are in I f dUI and aDd so long as a obedience obedie to the priesthood prevails Disobedience brings social ial and aDd business ostracism and boycott the tile process Ss proc of starving out unknown to any by people in any country upon the What an ignoble thought What aa an awful lie for a meek Bleek and lowly mis ry of oC Jesus Christ to send Rod back to the people Pe ot 00 t ue tie east It is too gross gress and an brutal to l n in itt on He further says MY thai th he e M Mormons look Upon the Gentile as an aa as intruder and ad Illustrates tHu by telling tel ng of a number member er of People from front Virginia who settled setU d in ia Price but tHey could J not stand Utah and went ent hack ck to their sunny southern skies sides t purse purs or script what an that is 18 for peo pie to ro come to Utah to live Ilie I He even slights Utah weather by telling about the sunny southern skies The whole object of his attack on Utah Uth is 18 money for he closes his de do de article with Brother sis ala ter ten help us We Ve need money Prote Professional beggary trying to tear down nm Utah to up M within its borders Trying to scare are the people in the east from frees coming here nere but to send end their money Trying to stir up hatred discord and strife the citizens of oC the United states so he can get a few fe more mote pen nl flea In In his hi Ju At the last quarterly conference at U CorInne this state where his audience audle was Wa made up principally of Methodists from from flO the eastern states and a few Mormons Mr Leilich tried to stir sUr up strife strite among them in his sermon sennon by referring to Joseph Smith as a It drunk en en bestial sot and the Mormons as heathens The Mormons In the audi ence quietly left the church The next day da a business man in Corinne a Methodist apologIzed apologised to the Mor mons mona for tor such unChristian and un us called for talk I have ve attended the Methodist church nearly all al and my daughter is a member of or the First M E church of city Ity and my ray son is a member of the Simpson M M E church of BC Chicago and it is la with regret that tb t I write this letter but these Christian missionaries have so interfered with my business that they the have compelled rate me iu to I am connected with two com corn panes in ia this state the Bear River RITer Land company compan and aDd the Bear River Wa ter tel company and it it is my m business to bring settlers rs to Utah and sell lands tends for lor these companies e I sold a farm arm to a good Methodist family at Lake Ge neya neva Wis VIs Is While the deeds were on the way to Lake Geneva this family heard a Utah M E missionary and J they were told that Utah was not a safe place to live on account of oC the Mormons M and were persuaded not to close eloe lo the deal I had made lions to bring another Methodist fam fain ily By who lived lied on Honore street Chica Chlea Chicago Chicago go so to come to Utah but they the heard the Rev Re Dr Iliff lecture on Utah and the Mormons and it scared them so they went to the Arkansas valley Colorado On street Chicago is a dry goods merchant and a Baptist who wanted to change hange his location on ac account account account count of health and business tion I persuaded him hire to come to Utah and look the si situation over here I went into his store one morning to see about his railroad tickets etc when his daughter came to me and said she would not live iii l li Utah for the whole state she would not not go to a state where they were all lawbreakers and had no regard for a womans virtue she sa said d she was going to California but that she would rould go gD by b the Great Northern railroad ra road and return by the Santa Fe She fihe would not even go through Utah oh on on the cars She heard Dr IlIa lIft lecture on Utah and B H Roberts R berts the night before i I I i than four weeks ago two gen came out out with me from ka ha and nd in the Bear River valley On O return tum r to Ogden Osden they met a R good Christian brother and church f that city who told them that if they had daughters It would be to t live In Utah be because be because I cause when they grew up they would have to associate with Mormons and would marry Mormons etc It so af at the man who had a Methodist wife that he returned to Nebraska without land selected He did not even sit Salt Lake City lt al at though his ticket was for that point The other gentlemen paid for tor his land and will soon be a citizen of Utah I could mention a score ore of oC instances where my business has been interfered with wilh by b these missionaries I How many man people who contemplate coming west t would go to Idaho or Utah Mr Mormon Slavery Slav Not one if they believed bel eve It The railroad companies en state ana other other concerns are spending thousands of dollars every year sending out literature trying to induce settlers and travelers to come to Utah but Mr is doing all aU he lie can to keep them away awa The Rev Re Phillip S Thacher who has us been in Salt Lake about as long as u Mr Leilich in a letter to the Christian Register Boston Mass of Dec 18 1901 says The Mormons are differ different different different ent from the popular conception Their Theil faults have been exaggerated Their virtues overlooked No one could be bemore bemore bemore more courteous and candid than some of the church officials I know I would advise every ever Methodist to read the Rev Rec ne J L L i Albrittons report in the Utah Methodist of or Dec D c 7 and compare it with Mr lIr Mormon Slavery The one is intended for Utah and the theother theother theother other for the east I think Mr Albrit Albritton Albritton ton must have read Mr r Mor Mormon Mormon mon Slavery before he made his re ia report port for he be says sa s in closing uIt It is folly and worse than folly to suppose that vituperative vit abuse of s s going to win Itcan It can win nowhere we must Mormons as well as everybody else els in error that we have something better to live lIe by something that makes men teen better citizens that makes better homes and brings light and cheer and happiness s not possessed by b them A Mormon knows a good thing when he sees it and if the Meth Methodists Methodists Methodists and all others will quit abusing them and show them they have a bet better better better ter religion they may be able aWe to con convert convert convert vert them and they the never can be con converted converted converted in any other way WR V S S PEET Salt Lake City Jan 14 H Hr r c |