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Show PERNICIOUS ADVERTISING. Editor Truth: In my letter to you on February 14th, I told you how tho Presbyterians, through Brother S. E. Wlshard, their superintendent of Utah and Idaho, were advertising Utah in tho Presbyterian Presby-terian Assembly Hcrnld. Theso articles ar-ticles In tho Assembly Herald pictured our homes as hovels and our schools as mean and insufficient. Thoro Is now being circulated through tho eastern states a littlo book which scorns to supplement sup-plement tho Assembly Herald. This book tells tho world nnd loads It to bellovo that all tho peoplo (except tho orthodox missionaries) in Utah aro Ignorant, Ig-norant, debased and immoral. Tho title of tho book or pamphlet Is "Tho Story of Our Work Awheel and Afoot in Mormondom During 1901, Being tho Annual Report of tho Utah Gospel Mission." Mis-sion." Tho book is dishonest In tho extreme and, llko tho Assembly Herald, Her-ald, tolls only half of a story, which is tho meanest kind of a Ho. It gives a history of eleven orthodox missionaries mission-aries who traveled through Utah during dur-ing tho summer of 1901. Theso missionaries mis-sionaries visited 9,500 families, held 172 meetings in G5 difforont places. On pago 10 of their pamphlet thoy speak of Mormon ideas as paganism and on pago 14, llko Brother Wlshard, thoy speak Oi. tho Utah people as a peoplo who sit In darkness. To read tho entire book, you would bo led to believe that they did not meet a Gentile Gen-tile in all their travels and all tho Mormons thoy mot wore bad ones. They do not hnvo ono good word for jilt a! Utah or her people. Mm In summing up their entire work, H'fl thoy say: "In tho extracts from lot- iH'S tors on page 11 and beyond will bo fflU found fncts of Intcnso interest on jRcV1 theso nnd other points." I will glvo a flB& fow of tho extracts In their entirety: wEj "A boy at a certain placo said that somo ono wns drunk and had n 'scrap inlM (fight) at nearly ovory dnnco thoy f B hnvo there. Thoy aro hold In tho H school building whoro tho other jg j church meetings nro also hold, and H aro under tho auspices of tho Young S E Men's Mutual." (Y. M. M. I. A.) M "Formor Bishop maltreated S H his four wives, left them and eloped M I to (out of Utah) with anothor man's wh wife; wns put out of tho church, but 11 U now has managed to get back In. This IjS is tho sad story, in brief, told mo by ono of tho 'poly ' wives. She will Sfifl not call herself , (his namo), but , tho namo of her formor Slj husband." fir! "In conversation with a Mormon, ho af said: 'If you pay your tithing, you Ij aro all right.' As to morals, ho said ! no account was taken of drunkenness, Jgj dishonesty, fighting and such like." m "A Mormon: 'I've novor committed jli any sins.' 'What did Christ dio for Hi thon?' 'His own sins, of course.'" Ml i "In , a lady said sho never ft read her Blblo, but trusted to tho 'el- Hj dcrs' to toll hor everything." M "A Mormon lady teacher, talking to M a young Mormon girl who is seriously jW thinking of becoming a Christian: 'If H you becomo a Christian tho boyB will jl not come to sco you.' Sho replied, 'Is that so? Don't tho" boys como to sco ij Christian girls?"' "A cortaln mlno operator Bald: 'You Ij can't tni3t tho Mormons, thoy are Buch U thlovcs and drink all tho time.'" ' (This Is too strong for a universal statement, but Is too sadly truo of K very many.) "Plural wlfo No. 2: 'Polygamy is I hell. I know; I was No. 2. My chll- Jj ron did not know their father; ho 1 never took any notico of them, and did not provido for mo or them!'" L i "Illltorato Mormon: 'Well, I soon g God at tho dedication of tho Temple Ij (Salt Lako). Ho camo out in hla. robes , and held out his arms so (spreading). I' And it was Just as thoy said It would B bo, boforo tho dedication. Somo seen W him and somo didn't. But I seon SI, him.-" m Mr 1 a Mormon elder said last night In his talk: 'God has a jj wife this Is the way ho creates; us- II ing as proof when I asked him at the if close of the meeting for a Bible text, HI Gen. 5:1 and 2." Nil There are five pages of the above H I rot, the summing up of the work of H I eleven missionaries for one season. H 1 This Is what they advertise to the SI whole world as samples of the people H f they found In Utah. What an awful jl A Ho! What ah awful Impression these H I emissaries of God arc trying to cro- fl I ato In the minds of the people of the 9 I eastern states about Utah! In their H I entiro book from cover to cover they say nothing about tho thousands of Mm good people they saw, but they mag- 01 nlflcd and enlarged on nil the bad m E they found. This is tho usual method nR employed by most of the orthodox jjlK missionaries In Utah. It was tho N; method Dr. Paden used In the Smoot i $ protest as well as tho one by bis Mi j bosom friend and colaboror. John L. ! Jj ' "Leilich. Brother Wlshard rolls It as a HI f sweet morsel under his tongue when wl ; ho makes a speech or preaches a sor- Ml t mon on Utah and it is tho most proml- iffl nent thing in his letters in tho eastern ij and religious papers. Any mlsslon- fgl I ary who will go to a Mormon homo or y 5 to tho home of any person with a Bible H in one hand and religious tracts in HI I tho other, representing himself to bo HfMjj a messenger of the Meek nnd Lowly MM Jesus and when he gets their confl- MB dencc, writes down their ungrnmmati-cal ungrnmmati-cal nnd crude sayings and publishes mW them to tho world in ridicule, as it J m were, is a traitor and a hypocrite. The I n above may bo strong language. But K tho Gentiles of Utah are getting tired I m of these Itinerant soul-snver3 who go J m about this state digging up tho literary I Ij excrement of tho ignorant Mormons is nnd publishing it to tho world as a m sample of our state, and its people. m I will mako a few comparisons. II In the year 1891, in classical Englo- ffl wood, a suburb of Chicago, tho mom- V bers of tho First Presbyterian church ! I got into a big scrap over their pastor, j I They called each other all the vile ' I names Imaginable and on different oc- i caslons, when they had prayer meet- i J ing, policemen wore stationed in the , church to keep these good Christians I from fighting. Gitteau was an ortho-j ortho-j . dox Christian, and said God com- 1 j manded him to murder President Gar- ! Hold. A few years ago, In Vermont, J an orthodox Christian by tho name of Freeman, on returning homo from a revival, murdered bis little daughter. J He said the Almighty told him to do , It. John L. Lelllch, tho superintend- ' f ent of the Methodist missions in Utah J and as roprcsentatlvo of tho Minls- 5 terlal Association of Salt Lake City, 4 4 : committed porujury In Washington, 1 ty D. C, and was novor oven censured inX for his criminal act, but on the con- U trary, was given tho pastorship of a W Methodist church in Lockhavon, Pa. ''Jiff Tho Rev. S. E. Wlshard, sueprlntond-ent sueprlntond-ent of tho Presbyterian missions of tit,! Utah and Idaho, told gross falsehoods about Utah and her people In tho ' , Herald and Presbyter, and was sus- j tained by his church in so doing. Ono can go into any community where tho a, people are an Gentiles nnd find just Mj- as crudo and ignorant people as 'Mt theso orthodox missionaries are pic- 'p turing to tho world to Injure and bo- Jftf' little Utah. Suposo that eleven Mor- Sty mon missionaries should publish In !(; pamphlet form tho abovo facts about orthodox Christians and distribute " "h them all over tho country, leading the ' ' i , people to believe that tho abovo was h a samplo of the Christians they met. t It would bo a slander and falsehood on " ' the American people. Tho great ma-' ma-' , jorlty of Christian people are good j; people, only a few of them aro bad, . j; and tho same can bo said of tho Mor- 4 ,ji mons. This pamphlet that theso or- j thodox missionaries aro distributing 1 ' y . has been endorsed by Rev. R. G. Mc- V Niece, Rev. N. F. Clemenson and tho ; Rev. S. E. Wlshard for tho Presby- i H terlans of Utah. Their names oan bo j i M found on page 2 of tho cover. Brothor ' , j Wlshard delights to have his name on anything thnt will injure Utah. This pamphlet in many places appeals for money to help carry on their campaign of misrepresentation. It cost ?300 for each missionary during tho season. It makes a nice summer outing to drive through our beautiful valleys and canyons In the summer time, distribute dis-tribute a few tracts, hold a few meetings, meet-ings, and call on a few people and have your expenses all paid. They aro not burdened by making converts, for on page 10 they say they do not expect ex-pect to mako a single convert in six or seven years. There are cloven of them at $300 per years, making ?I5,:i00, and It will be at least six years, representing rep-resenting ?19,800 before they mako one convert. Tho first ono will como high. My denr orthodox Christian missionaries mission-aries and preachers in Utah, let me mako you some suggestions. When eleven missionaries in six years, at a cost of $19,800, can only convert ono sinner, thero is something wrong. Mr. Harry Monroe in tho Pacific Garden mission in Chicago converts hundreds hun-dreds of vile sinners every year and his total expense Is only Gil cents each. The persons who hato sinners, hate themselves, and everybody e!se. If you want to convert a Mormon, you must first lo.vo him and then show him a better religion than he has. You cannot cleanse a man by throwing throw-ing mud at him or by publishing to tho world his defects. Why do you, when you como to Utah, dethrone love and hoist tho banner of hatred. Look at all the writings, speeches and Devil Fish pamphlets you aro Issuing each year? Hatred, slander, ridicule, injury in-jury and falsehood aro on tho cover, In tho typo matter and between the lines of nearly all of them. I saw much of your nefarious work last month in Michigan, New York and Pennsylvania. Nearly every ono I met believed that Senator Smoot had from two to five wives, and that polygamy polyg-amy was Increasing, and that Gentiles were not wanted in Utah, and they all cited the preachers and .missionaries In Utah for their Information. Some time ago the Rev. W. A. Bartlett of Chicago preached one of tho most scandalous, false and damnable sermons ser-mons on Utah and the Mormons that could bo delivered. I called on the Rev. Bartlett nnd asked him whoro he obtained his Information about Utah and ho frankly told me It was all sent to him by tho preachers and missionaries mission-aries of this state. I will try to finish this letter In next week's Truth. Yours very truly, V. S. PEET. Salt Lake City, Utah, July 2, 1905. |