| Show I THE REFUSES TO CORRECT A FALSEHOOD THAT IT PUBLISHED i Any especially one i that professes to be a christian that will publish a falsehood and then refuse to publish the j truth in answer to is to its high the nation needs is truly independent Nearly every paper in the United States is controlled by some church or political or some personal It will only publish articles favorable to its moneyed supporters irrespective of I truth or The a T. M. C. A. paper published a false and bitter attack by j the Bruce on Utah and the Then it de- to publish the following mild and truthful article from Lloyd Woodruff of The whole affair is as follows The Inter-collegian New East February J. Lloyd j Dear As we cannot use your article I am returning it to you j If you desire to discuss this' ler I would suggest that you take S it with His address Bruce Post- office Box I Yours very Editors j Woodruff's Editor i Deaf In your issue of January is an article on and by the Bruce It is so unjust and misleading and bears such false witness against a people very little that in common fairness feel you will grant space to this Your magazine reaches thousands' upon thousands of eager men and women every month who have an abiding faith that the questions you arc dealt with and I doubt not it is your aim to these reasonable This being the ease I write believing you- will give space to a few facts in regard to Mormonism as it really by a one who like the ma- of your a being enrolled in one of i I phia's leading professional Like so many writers on the so the reverend gentleman shows an appalling lack of knowledge in regard to his subject or mendacity in so wilfully misrepresenting conditions as they really exist He says Utah is a hard field in which to make I'll grant that but not the premises he The Mormon people are devoutly religious and they find in their religion everything necessary to satisfy the hunger of the soul Their religion gives them such strength and hope that they are seldom induced to forsake This is more readily understood when you consider that the majority of them were raised in some one of the religious sects of Having found in Mormonism new light they try to walk by that That Old and Dead Kinney says is not a dead this is an old cry and yet curiously enough it has never been Your readers are well aware that the attempt to unseat Senator Reed Smoot was based on this They are also aware of the sweeping scope of that examination and the free rein given to the Yet how signally they failed to develop instances of polygamous marriages since the He says it is Go to the tabernacle in Salt Lake City Sunday after visit the thousands of Mormon churches throughout Utah and the adjoining you will not hear the subject of polygamy Attend the Mormon services held all over the civilized and semi-civilized you will not hear polygamy Talk with the Mormon missionaries and you will find them in nearly every city of importance throughout the United States and they will not teach you to practice will never mention it unless you the and then will tell you it is a dead I spent three years in Germany representative of the Mormon as a church doing missionary I did not teach polygamy and in that period of time I came in personal contact with between three and five hundred other Mormon none of whom were promulgating this If it is not a dead issue how do you account for these The of The article attempts to place Mormonism outside the pale of yet its very name shows where it The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day in distinction to the Church of Jesus Christ of Former or Early Day Its principles are those taught by the lowly its foundation is Jesus Christ the Savior of the World and its superstructure is built upon the whole Mormon system duplicity in life and a total disregard for law and the rights of In answer I will present a little testimony from thoroughly reliable The Clement D. in his history of Religious in speaking of which at that time was entirely Mormon with Joseph Smith as is almost unknown among and this is more remarkable as a large percentage of their converts are from the lower order of the large cities of the United States and H. Bancroft says of Nauvoo vice is meant to be no grog shops are The drunkard is scarcely ever seen on the On page Bancroft in his history of Mormons are loyal to their consciences and They are essentially a moral people in the highest sense of the They do not steal or adultery is scarcely known among they are not profligate or given to Report of Government The following report made to the commission under the Edmunds bill gives the following dis of criminals in the jails and penitentiaries Utah it comes down to and includes 0 Keeping of 0 Lewd insulting women 4 Drunkenness Violation of liquor ordinance 0 Confined in peni- 6 Confined in Salt Lake jail 24 In considering this report it nM be remembered that the were overwhelmingly in the yet this shows how for law breakers are numbered among Bancroft further page the time the Ed-munds bill was all the keepers of and nearly all the gamesters and saloonkeepers were Until settled in Salt Lake there were seldom heard on streets or in the dwellings imprecations of the Kinney says we are and even notoriously answer the gentleman by saying that until I was over twelve years of age and came in contact with I had never heard m oath and to this day I have never heard a Mormon in good standing profane the name of Only a coward will attack women and yet Kinney does not hesitate to bear false witness against even His charge profanity is so preposterous it requires no I havell only to recall the hundreds I have inh-M pure noble women with my and my wife standing first foremost to smile at the narrow bigotry which The Public public school is only years old in Here again M for over twenty years W I was attending free public school entirely nonsectarian in M in Salt Lake i also well known that in the Mormon settlements that J second P 1 the school house was lie the Church being J And if they could n 1 once erect a school house church was used on week A for school Today j years with h Mormon Utah might be made to the 1 Bruce but I exposition Utah as really or tenets of i my not to judge unfairly a understand so little you as that of Its aims are not duplicity but honesty and its people are not but are among the freest from vice and among the happiest and most J. LLOYD The above letter speaks for do the people of irrespective of creed or think of the |
