Show falsehoods REFUTED A bov replies to anie F new mans diseased ravines the following is the answer to angle F falsehoods on the mormon question as referred to in the letter published last week in the written by a correspondent from ann arbor mich editor register in a recent lecture on the subject of Mormonism by mrs there occurred so many inaccuracies and misstatements of facts that in justice to the majority of the people of utah and alo to her hearers I cannot allow them to go unnoticed kindly me therefore through the columns of your valuable paper to make a few corrections I 1 will not notice the curious jumble of mythological conceptions which she called principles of mormonism but only a few of the graver charges made directly against the people the eminent lady says that the cormons mormons are allowed by their leaders to use none but church publications many publishing houses both east and west can bear a different testimony thousands of dollars are spent every year in the parch aae of books salt laap city has more and equally as large bookstores as ann arbor school books are prescribed by law and are those that are generally used throughout the united states the facts aro that the young in many of those in tho east are too little inclined to read theological works the lady also accuses the cormons mormons of being an intemperate people and of teaching their children from the cradle up to drink whiskey the laws of the mormon church strictly prohibit intemperance of all kinds as seen in their doctrine and covenants page 32 there is indeed too much drinking even among the cormons mormons Mor mons but that they are not depraved people as represented by the lecturer the following articles will show mrs emily pitt stevens editor of the pioneer says utah is the wisest and bast governed of any large of the people in the united states in great salt lake city there is less of drunkenness gambling idleness theft conspiracy coms piracy against rhe peace of society and crime generally than there is in any other city of the same population in the country if not on the globe dr miller editor of the omaha herald writes to tha lasting honor of the mormon people and system be it said that for twenty five years such taa chines of moral infamy as whisky shops harlo tries far and all the attendant forms of vice and iniquity were totally unknown in utah the court records of salt lake city for the year 1886 show the following arrests and convictions of cormons mormons and gentiles for prostitution etc cormons mormons 0 gentiles 76 23 G grand and petit larceny M 27 other of fences M 23 G but the most unjust of all her accusations cusat ions and that which has not the least foundation in fact i that among the cormons mormons Mor mons brothers marry their own sisters and fathers their own daughters mrs newman before god and man can you truthfully say that either of these crimes have ever occurred among the cormons mormons in utah or any other place 1 think not incest is as much abhorred by the mormon people is by other people or even by the eminent lady herself the testimony of warden pratt marshal dyer and court clerk mcmillan as shown in hon john T balnes speech before the house committee of oct 4 1888 proves that there never wore young girls married to their own fathers in the utah penitentiary at the time of mrs newmans visit or before the lady is undoubtedly the victim of some blodys maliciousness the story is made out of whole cloth incestuous marriages do not and can not occur among the mormon people the laws of the church the laws of the land and the sentiment of the people are against them divorces are not as the lady thinks common or easy among the cormons mormons Mor mons according to the laws of the church adultery and murder are the only of fences for which divorces aro granted I 1 deny the charges that tho mor mons are a disloyal people realizing at the same time the weight of public opinion on tha other side their creed of faith strictly enjoins upon them obedience to the laws of the land and they firmly believe in the inspiration or the constitution of the united State sAVe do not claim that the cormons mormons are better than other people but that they are worse or so grossly depraved a many sentimental lecturers would have the eastern people believe wo deny want of space forbids further notice the lecture as a whole was a beautiful display of rhetoric and elocution aud appealed at once to the feelings and the purse of the audience but in facts as they exist it was sadly wanting CLOTT Js |