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Show Mu H TWO THOUSAND DOLLARS RE-EplI RE-EplI I TW WARD. Editor Truth : "ltl i had supposed that after the ovl- d f dence was all In on the Smoot invest!- nation that the preachers would "let up a Httlc" on their campaign of !cnc! slander, but when slander Is second Ken" nature to an Individual It will crop out at all seasons of the year. The Gentilo bureau of Information whloh recently o La- distributed its dofamitory circulars sday among tourists on the trains passing m 13 through Salt Lake to Keep them from CCre' visiting this city and state, and to I scare away settlors and capitalists, and the recent speeches of Brother S. E. Wlshard in the eastern states shows that theso Utah knockers are still at work Injuring frlendB nnd foes alike. In January this year, I visited many of the middle and eastern states to Induce In-duce settlers and capitalists to come to Utah. In February Brother Wish ard also visited many of those states tf and sowed tares among the gocd Utah seed I had planted. He told the people that Utah was a very ut had state, that It was blighted by Mor- i mons, who wero trying to overthrow Cf, our government, etc. Brother Wish- the ard did all ho could by his speeches to K blacken Utah and frighten away pros- pcctlve settlers. Those who heard him, jja. 'k If they believed one-half of what he hcr j? said, could not bo Induced to come nln, N here to reside or Invest their money. hsc I Brother Wlshard, you have been I caught In the trap you set for Senator I Smoot. You have put your own foot igfc. In it. You said in an interview In tho a't Washington, D. C, Star, that Senator ect ' Smoot protected criminals, because ho I" did not expose and prosecute the polyg-anilsts polyg-anilsts In his (tho Mormon) church. Drothcr Wlshard, you published in the Herald and Presbyter that you dind tho names of thirty men who had taken plural wives slnco the manifesto. You wero repeatedly asked for a list of their names, so that those thirty criminals crimi-nals could be arrested nnd brought to justice, but you saw fit to protect them by withholding their names. Brother Wlshard, If you really did catalogue the thirty names, why don't you publish pub-lish them to tho world, instead of protecting pro-tecting them. Now, Brother Wlshard, I am about to publish a few thousand pamphlets to distribute in t-ho east, where- you nnd a few others like you havo been spreading thoso slnnders on Utah, and before I publish I am Koing to give you and others a chanco to defend yourselves. I am not going to secretly send them, as tho Ministerial Minister-ial association did many of their circulars. circu-lars. Tho following is a part of what they will contain. You published in tho Herald and Presbyter on Nov. 11, 1003, that you had recently catalogued the names of thirty men who had , taken polygamous wives since September Septem-ber 30, 1S90. You also said in the same paper on December 9, 1003, that all Mormon women wore subjugated and made to accept polygamy. You also said in tho samo paper of November 18, 1903, that Apostle Heed Smoot belonged be-longed to a priesthood that murdered apostates to savo their souls. Now, Brother Wlshard, If you can show by any reasonable proof that your above statements aic not gross falsehoods, I will donate $500 to any cause ol charity you may designnto. hero is an opportunity to raiso n little money and let tho people know that tho superintendent super-intendent of Presbyterian missions tf Utah and Idaho Is not bearing false witness. You also spoke in your article in tho Herald and Presbyter of Juno 21, 1903, of darkest Utah, conveying tho Idea that Utah Is heathenish on a ( parallel with dnrkest Africa. You know ,the above was false, hot mo refer ,you to tho report of the twelfth concensus. con-census. You will And in that that Utah stands abovo tho average of tho other states In education, morally and everything that goc3 to mako a bright state and not a dark one. Space will not permit me to speak of more ol your slanderous statements and tho way you aro knocking Utah. A word to tho Rev. Geo. Bailey, president of tho Westminster College, Salt Lake: You tried to injure Utah by telling tho people of Brooklyn, N. Y., thnt she had sent a traitor to tho United State3 senate. You said as pub-l3hed pub-l3hed In the Snlt Lake Herald of November No-vember 10, 1903, "that Senator Smoot bad sworn that ho would do all In his power to overthrow this government of ours, and that ho was guilty of treason trea-son or worse." Now, Mr. Bailey, if you can show that your abovo statements state-ments aro not nwful lies, I will donate $500 to tho Westminster College, of which you aro president. Itev. J. Duncan McMillan, ox-mls-sionary of Utah and now a Presbyterian Presbyter-ian preacher in Now York: You said, as published in tho Now York World, that Senator Smoot was a polygamlst and that you know what you wero talking talk-ing about. Now, Mr. McMillan, If you can make good tho abovo statement, with some show of proof, I will donato $500 to tho First Presbyterian church of Salt Lako City. To tho W. C. T. U.: Your ollUal lecturer, Mrs. Maria Weed, stated at Cincinnati, Ohio, and published In the dally papers In tho campaign against Utah and to get signatures on n petition peti-tion against Senator Smoot, that Senator Sen-ator Smoot at one time had five wives and now ho has three. Your other official of-ficial lecturer and cx-mlssionary of Utah, Dr. Sarah Elliott, also accused Senator Smoot in her lecture of being a polygamlst. Now, If you can Dhow that your two official lecturers were not tolling gross falsehoods nnd wero net injuring and slandering Utah 1 will donnto to the w c T I', of Salt Lake City $500. And now a word to Dr. l'aden: You and the Rev. John L. Leliich and R It. Crltehlow wore tho Instigators of tho Smoot protests which started tho gieatest campaign of slander this country ever saw. You know the company com-pany yon were in when you received John L. I.elilch Into your olllce to help you on the protest. You know that tho Rev. John L. Lellleh was a thoroughly bad man. You knew ho would say or do anything to injure Utah. You know of His falsehoods and that his general bad repute was published in the Salt Lako Heiald on January 1!), 1902; In Truth, August no, 1902, and In nearly every ropy of the Utah Mot-hodist during the winter of 1902-3. You knew while he was In your oillco that ho wauled to accuse Mr. Smoot or polygamy, In your piotest, which ho signed. You nlso knew that ho had no grounds for such a claim, but you had a better use for him. You sent tho protest headed by yen by registered mall. Then the Ministerial Min-isterial association, of which you nnd the Kov. John L. I.cllloh and Dr. Brown were the committee, (and It appears that Dr. Brown would not act with you), sent John L. Lellleh to Wnshlng-ton, Wnshlng-ton, I). C. What for, if It was not to fllo tho Lellleh protest, nccuslng Senator Sen-ator Smoot of polygamy? You knew what was on John L. Lelllch's mind. If you wore honest, why did you not protest against his going to Washington Washing-ton ns a representative of tho Ministerial Minis-terial association? On February 25, 1903, one month nftcr your protest was filed, Mr. Lellleh filed his and you wero apparently prepared for It, and right here was shown careful, calulatlng, political po-litical trickery, for you Immediately wired Senator Burrows that you want-ad want-ad the first protest to bo tho mnln Issue, Is-sue, thnt Is: that tho Lellleh protest accusing Senator Smoot of polygamy was of minor Importance What sub-torfugc sub-torfugc for ministers of tho gospoll! All tho nbovo was published In tho papers pa-pers of tho United States, and coming from preachers. Tho peoplo at largo thought Senator Smoot was guilty of a crlmo greater than polygamy. John L. I eillch, who helped you, commlttol perjury. Your next helper was Mr. 13. B. Crltehlow, a member of your church. I do not know whloh Is worso, tho man who commits porjury or tho ono who tries to get another to do It. iii pleaso a few Mormon haters, Angus M. Can-non, Can-non, Jr., said ho saw Ji3oph F. Smith marry Abraham II. Cannon and Lillian Hamlin in California In 189(5. Mr. J3, 'J. Crltehlow wns told by Mr. James F. Lynch of this city that Angus M. Cannon, Can-non, Jr., was not in California In 1890. Mr. It. J. Burton of this city testified hat n B. Crltehlow told him ho would not believe Angus M. Cannon, Jr., under un-der oath, and yot Mr. 10. B. Cr.tchlow wns Instrumental In procuring tho at- , tendance of Angus M. Cannon, Jr., bo- fore the Investigating committee with 1 no other view, as I can see, than, that I. Angus M. Cannon would commit per- W jury, the same ns John L. Lellleh did. R Dr. Pnden, In your protest against Sen- W ntor Smoot and In tho argument or ft, your council, Mr. Taylor, your chief ft arraignment or him was that ho did not W interfere with polygamlsts, that he did ft not prosecute those who wero living I In polygamous cohabitation. Accord- I lug to criminal law, perjury Is a much I greater crime than polygamous cohnb- I Itutlon. You knew thnt John L. Lei- I llch committed perjury, and that ho I was superintendent or tho Mothodlsl I missions, and presiding elder In Utah, I and that ho was a member nnd ropio I sentatlvo or the Ministerial nssoela- I Hon when he did II, nnd yet you nor I any ether preacher or your society eld I arrest, expel or even consuro him for I his criminal act. Dr. Pudcn, a slnn- I dcror Is Just ns grent a law-breaker ns I n polygamlstic cohabltor, but I have I never seen whom you or any other I preacher has oven censured Brother I Wlshard, the Kov. Geo. Balloy, tho I Kov. McMllllan or nny other of tho I Utah slanderers. It Is anything hut n I plcasuro for mo to Issue nnd distribute I pamphlets In tho states east of Utn't. telling or tho band of religious knork- ors wo havo bore, but tho recent I speeches or Brother Wlshard In the I cast and tho anti-Utah articles In tho f Herald and Presbyter, tho Assembly I Herald, tho Baptist Homo Mission I Monthly, tho Christian Advocnlo, etc., I and thu published Interviews of Dr. V I den In tho Chicago Tribune and other I papers, and tho continuous anti-Utah howl by tho llov. Wesley Hill and John L. Lellleh In Pennsylvania, llov. Mc- I Mllllan In New York, Mio llov. T. C. J Illff, Miss Mnrla Weed, Mrs. DoVore, Mrs. White and ninny othors compel j mo to Issue these pamphlets for my protection and tho wolfnro of Utah. j V. S. PERT. Salt Lako City, May , 1905. |