| Show THE some time ago the new published an article about utah that was very far from the truth and did the people here great injustice my john woodhouse answered the letter and the writer of the ar-ticle for the proof we publish his letter as follows editor world I1 enclose slip from weekly world december on utah and its admission and il were not well acquainted with the source from whence it came I1 should be much surprised As it is I1 am sur-prised somewhat when I1 haye read tho great world has done for the oppressed in many places it seems strange that such things as the enclosed with a number similar in the past should be admitted in its columns some years since tho world did for utah what no other person or paper ever did do sent out one of the best correspondents of the day and ob bained and published the fairest best and most truthful account of the situation that has ever been published by anybody I1 refer to mr phil robi-nson I1 know that ho obtained his facts first liand went over the whole ground himself and wrote saw this is something no other person has done alio men who furnish such as the enclosed clipping generally re-side in salt lake city and they know as much about the cmMooorrrmmmooonnnsss and utah as a new york pothouse politi-cian knows about the management of a largo dakota farm while their ob beets are the same viz to obtain control of the country and get their hands into the public pocket add to this that wo have the most disrep-utable lot that the carpet system of the american government has ever inflicted on any of their dependencies and I1 think tho world would see that the reconstruction scenes of the south would bo mild to what utah ex-pect should they gain power lowsee mg that all utah asks is what mr call asked a fair hearin gand a fair showing of the facts and then acts accordingly 1I think the world would bo willing to aid us in obtain-ing that much it is said polygamy is not the evil chiefly presented I1 need only call your attention to the fact that any other evil is of very modem inven-tion for many years polygamy stood alone as the one and only evil and all laws made had the suppres-sion of that as their only object peo-ple from utah have called on eastern editors and complained of their un-truthful publications concerning us and have received for reply that the truth or falsity was no alfair of theirs that they published what tho people wanted to read but I1 would not ex-pect such an answer from the world I1 have undermarked in the slip the absolute falsehoods in the short arti-cle and we challenge the writer for the proof JOHN WOODHOUSE |
