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Show I If GLORY IS TRMLEDIff DUST 'American Flag Tied to Axle of Vehicle in Which Daniel ' ' JI. Wells Rode. IjJKPL'TAIJLK CITIZENS OK ' ZION WITNESSED OUTRAGE I Mute Statements Made hyi Apostolic Lawbreaker. Heber .1. Grant. IOTr Ilubcr .1. Grant. who in tlic long a-jo was christened the "laziest hoy in the Thirteenth ward" of Salt Lake City, who was born in 1S.jG, eight days before his father's death, who became rm apostle, who ran awnvfrom Utah between be-tween two davs to escape arrest as a poU-garnist. who took his plural wilo with him to Jauan when he was Hent there as a law ileficr and a law breaker, as a missionary lo bring souls unto tuu master, who is a blasphemer as he is il.so a law-breaker, who has boasted ol his pohjcramous living and in an address Id voting men and women in tho um-i-ersitv of Utah declared his bclicl in polygamy, and wished that, he ('OuM have more wives riucstions an affidavit, made, bv the late Martin Harkncss ol , 'Utah. I. Harkncss. who came to Utah in US" IS. who wan a reputable citizen, who I fytiht the hierarchy of which the bias-'pltcmor. bias-'pltcmor. Grant, is a member, made jini-!dait jini-!dait that the American Hap was trailed, in tho dust and trampled upon by tho people, trailed under a carriage in which Daniel If. Wells rode in triumph from the penitentiary from which he j had been released aft-i,- incarceration for contempt of the Tailed States court. Harkncss Witnessed Outrage. Martin Harkncss. then a resident of Sail Lnlro ilv, witnessed tliis outrage' to the Hag of his country. Knowing, ihat after he had passed away, liars and I hypocrites would deny the historieul j fact to protect their own treason lo tho go eminent of the United Stat.es. lie J Volunteered an aflidavit, setting forth the fact of the trailing of the America Ameri-ca n flag in the dust, of its being tram ' pled upon by a people to show their, contempt for the country against whom ; thev u-ere traitors.. i This aflidavit of Martin Harkncss was printed in The Tribune on Thursday j morning. Mr. tlarluici-a was hu eye wit 1 hchs lo the outrage, f Apostle Onon Whitney, in whoso alleged history of Utah appears the! slorv of the triumphant return of Dan , icl II. Wells from the penitentiary, did! hot mention the, fact that tho American I flag was trailed in the dust. Ho wa3 1 ind ib a hibloriau who wrolo as directed 1 by the hierarchy t'o protect a gang of miters to Ihoir country, ft was this alleged history that- caused Martin ITarknesa to inako (he affidavit which The Tribuno printed. , i f;. Pact.- woro Proucrvod. 11 Martin llarkuesi knew the gang. Ho j "J Huiuw the alleged" apo3lles. He know, tall the alleged mouthpieces of Almighty God who claim to hold direct, commuii ) liou with the Most High. Ho know how : Jinsinecro thoy wore, lie knew Ihey I '. (were linro. Ho knew they would per i vcrt history to conceal their own shame, iMtheir own wickedness, their own traitor jfffous actions, therefore he wanted lo and fijfcdid prohcrvc an historical fact in Utah fwllif li showed how the hierarehv were J JXtroitors to their country and their Hag.) iM.' lartin Harkncss know that the end Jwas near :or him; knew that persons Jfi.l'ke. Ueber .1. Grant would question hit 2;5tatcnient5 unless thoy were fortified: I Jjso ho had a number of others who had Mwitncfased the trailing ot the flag in tho: afdusl under the earriago which carried ' ADanicI H. Wells' in triumph from the g ponilcntiarv make aflidavits and those jMaftidavita wro turned over to Tho f rib-i'y& rib-i'y& ( Stand Up, Apootlo Graut. Il'il!, Apostle Hebor J. Grant say that E. D. Burlingaino. a respected if wizen of Salt Lake, now Jiving at; 201 WWest Sixth South streot, lied when he Mmado aflidavit with tho lato Martin mHn rkness that the flag was trailed in the dust as Martin Harkncss stated? Will tins apostolic hypocrite say that T. W. Harvey, a. respected citizen ot Salt Lake now, lied when he, too, states that tho outrage upon the flag as stated by Martin Harkncss did occur and that he witnessed it? "VVilI ho question tho statement, state-ment, of H. G. McMillan, chairman, of tho board of public works of Salt Lake Oitv and a most estimable citizen citi-zen who likewise witnessed tho trailing trail-ing of the Hag in tho dust aa stated by the late Martin Harknoss? Rut why enumerate? Tho gentlemen iiamed witnessed the outrage Thev wcro hero at the time it occurred. They were Gentiles. They had no ax to grind. J hev wore not then nor now protecting traitors to tho country. Can Apostle Grant say as much? |
