| Show I I MORMON CREED AND ITS EXPONENTS To 10 the ot or the tho Japan Mall my absence In tho coun country country country try you jou ou published at tho the request est of ot American a II two column article re regarding garding the tha Mormon people from tho ho hopen pen IOn of ot Gen John Eaton I shall that be pleased to have you In III tho the Interest of 01 fall fair Mr play and und Justice publish my reply which I hope bope the Japanese papers papera will cop CUjI Many of or the statements of at Mr Eaton Laton r atonI I know to be false faire and will therefore be hu euro suro to deceive his readers read rent ers cis regarding the true status oC ot affairs la is Utah The gentleman who signs himself American for tot the he reason no doubt that ho he to hide himself behind that name nam or is 19 ashamed of ot his hla own talus It upon himself to refer to our people as ae the dangerous Mormon plague We are ore accustomed to abuse but abuse is not argument Our ti 10 because of ot falsehoods told old re rev balding us e may ma bo be bad lind but thank character the 1 h as alen en tho the character ot of the bald is la good goot The reputation of ot our tuna wat bud among anions the tho religious people le of at His Ills day doy und and at their He fe was wa nailed to the cross but butHis Ills His character and His ills teachings were wore above reproach and will III live forever lit IH Bald By their fruits ye shall 1 know them Do Da men gather grapes of ot thorns or lies ot of thistles Can an Im Impute Impure pure liUI fountain send forth pure ure water watern i n o are aro ut lit the tho defiance ot of tho the world to judge the Mormons by the standard then given 1011 by b our Savior and not be under the necessity nece of ot according to them then the tho highest t diameter character l for tor honesty Industry und anti virtue American gives Mr 11 Eaton a n very ono fine character dl I have no one hero hore to todo todo todo do the thi same for tor me and being desirous that your readers should have a good goodO opinion ol O of at me the w so that they tho will gh give gle e at attention to my refutation of ot Mr statements I respectfully ask you to 4 publish extracts from letters To whom Who III la Is may ma concern Hero ller follow a 1 number ot of letters of ot In Introduction Inv from tram prominent non Mor Mormons mons resident of t Utah What was nas the thu object to bo be gained by b Mr Eaton Katon 1 lIton In writing his article 1 feel fod fc I that any one oM with tho the least particle of discernment can cun nee ace only oaly too plainly thai lbs it Is for tor the tho purpose of ot securing motuy tor for the Christian schools In Iny y I 1 do not In tile the least blame blamo the thet t gentleman for tor trying to obtain funds for fur this purpose but I most emphatically ly Iy object to hi hla hili maligning an entire I community In his Ills efforts to do 10 so He Ue never sIever seems oems to forget target tho the main maln cnance that of ot securing funds After Atter Attern u n tan fall quarter of or a u column regarding Asia Ash Africa etc all of which Is so much slush he ho very appropriately says soya This condition furnishes tho the added reasons rea ons for those who Iho are raising U li p century funds to safeguard the future with Institutions for tor Christian No doubt It U was Mas tho the natu natural rill rat modesty of at the tho man which modesty by the way Is very ory plainly shown throughout his entire article which him from rom adding The Thu Shel Sheldon h don dal Jackson Jackon College Collese of ot which w I have havethe havethe the honor to be president will bo be pleased d to receive as much of ot these funds as n possible e there Then Is l not apace e mere hero to rehearse the so familiar history of ot the Mormons f from from their origin In the arch Impostor too loe Smith through their migrations form to Im Palmyra N J Y first to Kirtland Ohio then lien to Nauvoo Illinois where Smith 1 was Mas inn s and a nd finally under Brigham Young to the t he tall valley e y of Salt Lake Utah Ono One would think that a 0 gentleman who nho ho has hns space for tor two columns In small Email type typo of oC abuse e and falsehoods re regarding regarding garding an nn entire community might e have found round space paca to state slate a I few fow facts but facts would not secure money for tor Ills his school and so he passes them by byI I cannot blame him for tor not wanting E to tD relate anything about the history of oC the tho Mormons and their and persecutions and finally their expulsion rom from the United States after their faith ills mur prophet hat had been licen murdered with his hIli brother Hyrum In cold cohl blood while under a pledge of ot pro pre lion from tram the tho f governor of at the tho state of oC Illinois Tho The history of ot our people Is a good thing to leave loave untold by all nil those who dare daro not tell tho the truth Mr Eaton Union how howeler however ever eler finds ands time to refer to the tho Prophet I if 4 Joserh Joseph Smith as that arch Joe Smith Mr Josiah Quincy in his Figures of at the tho Past says saS that Jo Joseph Joseph Jose 1 seph se Smith Is not to be lie disposed dla used of ot by b pelting ting his hilt memory with unsavory Quin a epi epithets l thetA I give the opinion of ot Mr Quin Quincy I cy fir regarding Joseph Smith and place placeIt It against that o ot of Mr air Jr Unton Inton He lie was I II nn an author educator lawyer statesman man I and Md philanthropist and fully as 8 great a n aman aman man aa an tho the president of ot a n college collego which has graduated One Ono Scholar during the pant past four tour years Here Is Inserted the tho testimony of ot lion Jon Josiah Quincy concerning the character of ot Joseph Smith the Mor Mormon Mormon Mormon mon Prophet which has hils b been en pub published more than once In tho News Mr Easton toys cays He Ito Young was nil at one onetime onetime onetime time governor of ot tho the territory and In Indian Indian InI dian dlan agent and yet ret was well known to toA I A encourage to the tho utmost disloyalty to I Ithe the tho ling Ills His 11 to s treatment of the military I expedition which he ho forced to winter at nt Fort Port cannot bo be forgotten Per ler Perhaps haps Imps tho the one Mormon net act that gave I lye greatest shock to tho the public was Wits the Mountain Meadow Massacre Mr Eaton simply tells a number of ot falsehoods in the tho above statement When the Mormons were well coming to Utah after twenty thousand of them had been driven from tram Nauvoo III pat part t of ot them In the tho dead of ot winter a n call was was made upon them by the govern government government ment meat for tor five hundred men to light In Inthe Inthe the Mexican war Will and Brigham Young Youn saId sold You shall have your battalion and In three days these exiled j patriots furnished a II force of ot five hundred and souls Tho The history of ot tho the world does docs not furnish a II parallel Think of ot a IJ people driven and stripped of at their all nil and Md expelled from their homes and country furnishing n a I bat battalion tallon to fight light the battles of the country from which they the wore being driven I IThe The Tho history of this Incident the hoist holat hoisting ing lag of at the tho United States Staten flag on Ensign Peak by Young and the Plo Pio Pioneers as soon 03 ns they reached Utah and anti taking possession of ot tho tle land then Mexican soil soli In the tho name of ot the United States give the lie to tu all such Buch slander slanderers ers ere as Mr Eaton Ellton Aa As to the military expedition eXI which was waa forced to winter at Fort Tort I lam am not surprised cd that this alto also was teas passed paused by without giving an all account of ot It and stating staling why the army was kept there thore until the final settlement of ot the matter I will give the tho history which has hns been omitted The Th army was sent to Utah because of ot the false charge made by Judge Drum Drummond Drummond mond mood and his associate Federal to the effect that the United States court records had been beell destroyed by bytho bythe bythe the tho Mormons Mormon Our people knowing the charge chargo to be absolutely lY false has hav having bt lug ing suffered because of ot falsehoods In Inthe the tho past put having been expelled from Nauvoo III II and fearing a I repetition of ot former outrages detained the army aim un on until til an Investigation could be behall had Col Thos Thoa Ij L Kane having been sent train from Washington D C as aa the tho representative tive tI ve of ot tho the government t upon nil his hi ar arrival arrival arrival rival In Utah found tho the records Intact and the charge therefore without foundation No more marc dastardly thing thinS on earth could a f man do than to charge ch that terrible crime of at the tho Mountain Meadow massacre to the tho Mormon people and their lenders leaders for tor tho the reason r that the tho court oun records In Utah shows the tho very ery opposite It U would be equally na M proper for tor the Mormons to charge e the peo pea people pie rho of at the United States with the terri terrible terrIble ble ide slaughter at nt Hauns Mill MITI ono one of oC the places In Missouri from which they were expelled and mod with many other crimes crime committed In that state slate and finally for tor their expulsion tram from Nauvoo and the lute killing of at their Prophet and Patriarch I Mr charges charSe are arc a a 1 direct thrust at nt the tho government and Its and carry the tho lie lI on their face because If It the tho guilty parties were not Mt brought to Justice the govern government government government ment was responsible as It had Its own officials In Utah and all aU tho tiro machinery of ot the courts In Its hands I again give the facts for Cor which Mr Eaton seemed to lo lath lack space and ond these facts t nd him hut with the outrageous attempt to fasten a f terrible and heinous crime onan on nn an Innocent community John D Lee was convicted of oC this crime on Mormon testimony and n verdict ot of guilty was brought broucht In by n a Mormon 11 on Jury Sumner Howard ex chief Justice of ot Arizona and the tho United States prosecuting attorney ut Itt the tho sec second secand and ond trial of John D Lee repented repeated what ho had said sall at a n former trial that he had conic como for tor the purpose Duro of oC trying John D Lee Lec because tho the evidence led and pointed JoInted to him na as the tho main Instigator Instigator gator galor and leader of or the Mountain Meadow 1 Massacre J and he ho had given Biven the Jury unanswerable documentary evidence proving that teat tho the authorities tlell of ot the Mormon h knew V v nothing of ot the tho butchery butcher until after It Was as com cony committed mulled and that Lee Leo In his letter to President Young a 0 few weeks later inter had hod knowingly misrepresented the ac no actual actual teal facts i relative dative to the massacre seeking to keep him still sUIl In the tho dark and ond In ignorance He lie hud had received nil all the assistance any United States oin om could ask on earth In any case Nothing bud bad been kept back and ho hons was ns determined to clear the tho calendar of ot every eVer indictment against any and andor every or actual guilty guilt participator In the tho massacre Mr I talk of at the Avenging Angels etc Is s simply n lot tot of oC falsehoods pure puro and simple Nothing of the kind ever existed h In Utah and such a n charge Is on a I par with the claim that Brigham Young wn WO was responsible for tor the Mountain Meadow Massacre and can ean bo be classed therefore with all charges chan Es that are ab nb absolutely absolutely without foundation and without with without wIthout out proof Wo We plead guilty guilt to having High Priests Priest Seventies Elders Eldors Deacons and other working with energy I for tor the tho Church of ot Christ i also to nay hiv hiving h I ing Ine Sunday S schools with en enrolled rolled In that good cause Wo We also plead guilty guilt to having thousands of ot little tots tole In our Primary associations associations associations where they tile the are taught taug lt the tho pure principles of 0 the Gospel of ot our Lord and Master Jesus Christ Wo We oleo aljo plead guilty guilt to having over ocr young oung men and young ladles In our Mutual lutu 1 Improvement associations all of ot whom hom A are arc studying the Gospel of at our Lord Jesus Christ and a II great majority of ot whom both young ladles Indies and young gentlemen would bo be perfectly willing willingto to meet Mr Eaton or any ot of his highly educated Christian friends and discuss either cither of ot the thy following propositions proportions The Tho Gospel of at Jesus Christ as taught by b tho the Saints can be bo sub nub by the tho HIble or contrariwise wise The Tito doctrines of ot Chris Christians lane cannot bo ho substantiated by tho the and I 1 will guarantee that Mr Eaton Katon or his hla friends will be bo knocked knocket out If It you ou will II pardon the tho ox ex expression by thousands of ot these boys bos bosand and girls Methodists Episcopalians Congre Rationalists Baptists Presbyterians Christians ChrIstiana unite in III one deplorable testimony testimony testimony mony Tho preaching ot of tho the Word found little lathe encouragement among the tho adult Mormons After all alt the tho hard work vork and nil alt th III money which line has been raised time and und time Um again to reform the tho dreadful Mormons It almost makes muk mo me tad fad to tu read this united and deplorable testimony That which follows the tho above de do plainly that Mr Eaton does not nut lose sight of ot the tho main chance chanco by stating stilting some excuse for tor the securing of ot funds He lie therefore adds odds but the children tho the growing grossing bo be reached and so schools were added I brand hrand It iI as liS a 0 cowardly thing after admitting that they cnn can do doI I nothing with the tho adult Mormons for our Christian friends to try and steal our children from us and break up tam fam am hire Illes yet yot I have not the slightest sligh fear of ot their success but expect to rend read In Iny years y ars to come como another deplorable teed testimony te tI many loony In which they will all nil unite In saying they hey have had no encourage encouragement encouragement ment mont among the tho children na as well as ns the tho adult Mormons Those fearful Institutions the tho Sunday school tho the Pi Fri I I nary mary the Improvement which are uro among tho the Mormons will do their work worl and prevent any success attending their efforts with will our chil children dren It Is a 11 part of at my nay duty when at home homo to meet with and give glo Instructions to tho the missionaries IIII who are alc going to preach the tho Gospel and I 1 have never failed ailed to Instruct them that they were not under any nil circumstances to bap a child without the trio trie and full consent of ot Its parents and never n a woman without the tho consent of at her hus hue band bant We Wo Mormons are arc willing to do our preaching by appealing to the tho Bible Dible and to men mens reason and have no necessity to try and steal from tho Eno faith of ot their parents Mr Roberts was not lIot elected by b but bul after aUer being regularly nom non hinted by the Democratic party part was elected by br that party and received r oa IlS high and In some places l higher ma In precincts where the noh nob Mormons were In the thc majority No attempt was made mado to Introduce a I lawIn law lawIn Io In the tho legislature to protect polygamy i tho the State Constitution prohibit polygamy polygamy amy nm A law was wall Introduced simply to protect the men who hind had more titan than one ono wife prior to statehood from a n hired Informer who was |
