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Show I THE LETTER NOT PEODUCED. I ! Tho Desorot News last night failed to comply with our demand that it I should publish the letter, which was written by the first presidency and read in the Mormon meeting ai, Syrncuso on December 2nt.li. Instead of giving tho letter if. gives a-lot of silly twaddle about. Tile Tribune being a fakir, aud undertakes lo make its readers believe Unit The Tribune wants lo impute something very sinful with regard to this letter. The fact is that Tho Tribune- is morcly seoking light nbout it. l'irst of all, Tho News contends that there was' no such Idler; ils words being be-ing that "the letter of ThcfTribunc story was never written. It was never read anywhere." But there was a letter. Tho News called Bishop Cook of Syracuse Syra-cuse to the stand, who slated explicitly that fhcro was a leifor, and gave his summary of some of tho conteuts of it. The News no doubt garbled hi6 statement, state-ment, and suppressed the salient poiuts in it. But last night it denied lhal there tvas such a lef t cm-. Along towards the Oiid of its editorial, however, it concluded con-cluded that that denial would not do, so it admitted that there wus a letter. But it says that the letter read at Syracuse Syra-cuse on the dato named had not a word in it referring to "those principles of tho church which tho church has boon forced lo lay asido for a time," stopping stop-ping there: but we continued quoting from the lady who reported as to the Jotter, that these principles were about lo be resumed. The News's donial here appears lo be merely a verbal quibble. It being admitted that there was a letter read at Syracuse on December De-cember 20th, and it being reported to The Tribune by a lady who heard it, that this letter wns'to the purport that those who did not pay their tithes would loscstanding in the church, and that certain ordiuanccs that had boon set aside for a timo wore about to be restored, and that the interpretation interpreta-tion placed upon tho letter 13 those who heard it, in their talk when they remained re-mained after tho meeting lo discuss it, was that it meant tho revival of polygamy, po-lygamy, as reported by the lady who henrd tho lottor and also heard the talk, we are curious to find out tho exact facts. The News fights shy by stating stat-ing that the letter was not such a letter as tho lad' reported it to be. AV'oll, if it was not, what kind of a lottcr was it? What is the objection to printing it? If it was an inoffensive, routine letter, such ns tho flfcst presidency presi-dency sends out by the hundreds every 3'car to the local officials of tho Mormon Mor-mon church, as tho church organ's statement implies, what is tho harm in printing it? "Why all this mystery? Why this beating of the air, this hot protest that tlio lotter is not so and so, arid explaining that it did not amount to anything, was mcro routine, and all that? Wlrr not get right down to the point,- aud lot us sec that letter? let-ter? Until this is dono and we have that letter in full, untrimmcd, unex-purgatcd, unex-purgatcd, and complete, wo must maintain main-tain that the recollection of its contents con-tents as given to The Tribune by the ladi who heard it is truo, and her version must stand as its actual meaning mean-ing and purport. |
