Show A LEAF FROM ROM HISTORY Back in 1884 two or 01 three Mormon missionaries were killed by a mob in a place in ill Tennessee IJ Like lw all Mormon l missionaries at that time the they taught that polygamy was an ordinance of of God They were ki killed led Doubtless were the thc same thing to tobe be lc tried tried now the thc men trying it would likewise be billed for if there is anything that a wild Tennes- Tennes f scean will fight for sooner than for or anything else it will be when as he would express it H sonje some one was wasT T tampering w with th his w women folk Some Sonic months before an ar headed Cl A A Red Hot HoL Address was published in the Tribune It purported to o be lC a true truc report of a sermon delivered by a Mormon U rmon elder in a southern Utah town It was wasso so like other addresses delivered deliver d by br Mormon l elders that the Tribune never ne' doubted its genuineness In a few da days s 's it was established that it was a forgery forger 9 and the Tribune hastened to print a full retraction on the same sanie page and with equal pr prominence that it l had d given the address Some months later these missionaries ss were killed and the Deseret News i put putout ut out a statement that the massacre doubtless was due duc to that address being circulated in Tennessee It was simply an invention of Elder Penrose and without without with- with out ut the slightest evidence behind behin J it lIe He never nc needed needled need need- led cd ed a any y evidence in a case of that kind his inventive ge genius ius was equal to any occasion In point of fact there there- re was as rt the slightest evidence e that the H address address ad add ad- ad d dress ess t dv-t- re thed hed Tennessee or that the murderers murder murder- cr orB ers of the missionaries ever saw it or could have ha read it ii had they seen it Later ater the charge was enlarged upon that the tho murders were due to a conspiracy of politicians in Utah and that their weapon was that address Th There re was care taken never to mention menth men men- tion t th the c name of an any of those politicians because had that been done the News would have hae been f forced to explain to some court that it knew of no such politicians and that it had manufactured th the entire story Had the Tribune been in existence at atthe the thern time Parle Parley Pratt was killed in Arkansas and had Penrose been on the News he doubtless would have charged the the killing of Pratt to the Tribune and n with just as much reason Now the truth is that the address was not one atom more violent than very many of the sermons of Brigham Young Jedediah Grant and plenty plent of the others others' of the old it did not compare in treason and violence to the tho prayer praet offered at the dedication of the St. St George temple b by Wilford Woodruff and our belief is that of the Mormons in this city who read the address at the time so natural was its tone nine out of every ten believed it was true and exulted over oer it On od Wednesday the Deseret News published publish cd a l letter from an old man who had extended hospitality hospital hospital- ity to the missionaries in Tennessee The letter def described de de- de- de f scribed the tragedy hut but there is no hint hint in in it of an any thing which the people of that region had read which inflamed the mob There was nothing but hut the preaching of the missionaries themselves Elder B. B II I. Roberts was one who went after aCter th the bodies of the dead missionaries but he d did a not then and never since has ascribed aa as one of the causes of those m murders the reading of that that address U He lie knows thc the charge is is absolutely false But the present editor editor edi edi- tor of the News picks s up UI the old Penrose falsehood and reiterates it with his own embellishments which is in strict strict conformity with v th the methods of of our holy church and is of the same style of the article Penrose put out twenty years rears ago proving that the Mountain Meadows Iea massacre was perpetrated b by the Indians and like his account the next morning after the thugs on the thc police force had beaten the negro t to death in the thc jail then threw his insensible bd body c out oit to the mob of the tle valiant fight which the poli police e hind had made to protect the negro but were finally over- over conic b by the mob and the thc victim was taken from t them em Penrose bravel bravely earned his apostleship |