Show 1 Slanders on Church I kin in British Journals Ans Answered vered 1 ate of Writers Held Ridiculous W N seA SCATHING THING language the recent eruption of the English press against the activities of the Mormon missionaries in England and he British possessions was branded as sensational 1 n and glaring falsehoods by Dr James E E. E Talmadge of of twelve and religious writer I f Vitriolic propaganda has been appe appearing ring recently in London endeavoring to influence ce the masses of England England to rise a body a.-body and compel the British parliament to drive the workers worker of e Mormon church from the country on a t plea that the teachings e dangerous to the youth of England OR DS I OF SLANDER They They have robbed the poor the dow dew and the fatherless and made em elves the greatest financiers In Ine e world They have defied the States government for over years At last pOlygamists and lawbreakers they have ken ken Sen an oath of treason against the of the United States rs f Is a portion of a a. story by Winfred Winfred Win Win- fred fd Graham written for a a. LondonI London I and which recently apI aped aped ap- ap I eared ed In a New York dally daily verbatim i el also declares that the Mormon ders are arriving In England In I reater numbers than ever before to converts for polygamous th Mormonism has had had- hada a marvelous access In Utah and now It Is being 1 to English soil The priests elwell trained and skillful and have the world a network more and effective than the German system Yet we calmly sit wn An and do nothing to legislate such dangerous intrigue Thus tt r Graham further writes REFUTED 1 n n answer to this writers writer's statement I that the elders were arriving In ever eer Increasing numbers Dr Talmage declared declared de dO- that only eleven eleen had been sent over since the cessation of or hostilities and these were to replace missionaries whose terms of service had already ex ex- These eleven cleven sailed for England when George Albert Smith the new president of the British mission field left for his post of duty and It was necessary that Mrs Smith the pre presidents president's l- l I dents dent's wife had to be considered as one of the eleven missionaries in se seI securing securing se- se curing passports Dr Talmage declared I REPORT RIDICULED I That the Mormon people had taken an oath of treason against the government government govern govern- ment of the country was highly ridiculed ridiculed ridiculed ridi ridi- and scorned by Dr Talmage Taimage lIe He I said that at the Smoot hearings inI in m Washington D. D C C. in 1904 before the I committee on privileges and elections of the United States senate as a result of ot protests against Senator Reed Smoot to sit In the senate as a representative from Utah he had personally testified under o oath th that nowhere in the tenets of ot the faith of the Latter-day Latter Saints was there any word of treason against the United States At this time the Mormon people were absolved of ot any such accusation Dr Talmage declared As evidence of the patriotism of the Mormon J ople to th their ir country what the men and women of the church and the church as a body had done In pros prosecuting the war was pointed out b by Dr Talmage ANOTHER ARTICLE At regular Intervals the Mormon people ren renounce renounce plural marriage but they never cease to practice it It is the statement made by Mrs Louise Jordan Miln 1 writing for the Reynolds Weekly a British publication with a weekly circulation of ot a million readers reader readers read read- er ers The The young girl growing up In Mormon Mormon Mormon Mor Mor- conditions conditions born born mon a Mormon lormon or converted to to be bo one one one-Is Is doomed to something worse than prostitution For Tor Mormon marriage does not debauch de debauch de- de bauch sex so surely as It kills sex And where there Is no sex sex there can be no progress says this writer Without exception every ery member of the L L. D. D S. S church who Is found practicing plural marriage is excommunicated excommunicated excommunicated and without hesitancy it Is made public Dr Talmage declared Since the manifesto it has never been sanctioned by the church and very few cases of ot such have been found Dr Talmage stated Every bishop stake president mission president president dent and every member of the faith has been continually urged by the authorities of the church since that time to report any case of this nature nature nature na na- ture and after punishment by the church has been meted out they are turned over to the civil authorities A comparatively recent case of polygamous marriage In Ogden which placed In the hands was of civil authorities authorities authorities au au- by churchmen was cited by Mr Talmage MORMON QUALITIES Mrs 1 says that the Mormons have many virtues and those are high ones These she indicates indicates- are honesty honesty honesty hon hon- esty frugality industry persistence orderliness patience and kindness The Mormon women she writes have two great spiritual assets their love of flowers and the fierce and almost inordinate love of the women for tor their young Concerning the taking in of new converts to the Mormon faith and the Inducing of women to come to Utah Dr Talmage said that baptism baptism bap bap- was never administered to a married woman woman without the permission permission permission sion and sanction of her husband and not until unmarried men and women were old enough to understand understand understand under under- stand the faith were they induced to join the church Harsh reprimands for the missionary who should Influence influence influence ence young men or women to join the faith without first abiding by the laws Jaws of the mission were in to store from the mission president Dr Talmage Talmage Tal Tal- mage declared CHURCH IS UNAFRAID Little f fear ar that the Mormon elders will be driven from their religious duties abroad is entertained by church officials here Here is what Dr Talmage Talmage Talmage Tal Tal- mage said concerning the attacks upon his church by the English press Such sensational misrepresentations and glaring falsehoods which refute themselves by their own inconsistencies inconsistencies inconsistencies incon incon- are not new to the British Brit Brit- ish press The right of free speech is recognized In the land of my birth and in that country as in this the right is too frequently transmuted into libelous wrong by the prostitution tion of liberty into foul li licence Ii- Ii cence The tributes of these writers albeit unwittingly paid to the sterling qualities of the Mormon people indicate indicate indicate indi indi- cate that each ach of the authors knew that she was falsifying when she wrote as she did with the ink of slander The amusing prediction that the British government will sometime prohibit pro pro- hi hibit it missionary service by the Lat Lat- ter-day ter Saints in in Great Britain has been put forward b by penny a liners at intervals for decades past but the realization has ne never r yet been wit wit- Local opposition amounting in some cases to riotous persecution and personal injury to a few of our missionaries is as old as Mormon propaganda in Britain but whenever the question of Mormon rights has come before the government officials an investigation has followed and in m every instance the decision has been We Ve find nc ne evil In these missionaries nor in their theft work worl Let them alone alore The story of portentous inhibition against Mormonism by the British parliament is but the periodical exhibition ex exhibition exhibition ex- ex I of an ancient and much battered battered battered bat bat- bugaboo and the writers are ate to tobe tobe be he pitied hirelings as they are who 1 hesitate not to scatter falsehood and calumny for a few pennies |