Show the Slanderer I Discredited Salt Lake Attorney Outdoes Former Attempts to Besmirch His Cleared in of a t journal for the physician a slanderous arti- and is typical of its Theodore who himself as a member of the Bar and of the Utah Is barely possible that same is on the tie Utah Bar association IBie lad some practice in Utah until tk time he was caught a record of which found in the Pacific page Salt Lake City sot bare enough business for hence jM Schroeder hiked to New Schroeder exhibits I cunning in his article graphing and numbering giving the- name Ite of the publication from tW le Pretends to while toll well that none readers see the from which he visiting historians office in In all of his pre- he des f the authoritative ml every Pin Italy he was shown enough pieces of the true eross make a dozen crosses and when he arrived in Rome he was told that in a darkened closet with a grated before which he stood was the en-tiro cross that Christ was crucified Mark said he had his doubts about it because he could not see it but when he stuck his umbrella through the grating and felt it he knew it was That is Schroeder's underhanded scheme to make his readers believe he is telling the He points through the darkened grated pages his most of which are not there and could not be even felt of by a long The first reference Schroeder gives is Millennial He quotes the autobiography of the Joseph it is recorded during polygamy being already secretly that there then existed in the purely Mormon of more than one house on and an ordinance to suppress brothels was The only thing in the Millennial Star to support his entire quotation was were certain persons in the place who corrupt the morals of our and not one word about Joseph Smith's autobiography or polygamy being secretly His next pretended quota tion is Millennial There is no such number of the Millennial His next false quotation is from and Herald an unknown his quotation numbers 4 and 5 Reverses not only reverses the quotation but he misplaces the states in his' pretended quotation that in was then little more than a Mormon country J. in his History of the United in page Ford's History of Illinois the En cyclopedias and 13 Bancroft's History of page give Nauvoo 's population in at It was at that time the largest city in Schroeder's pretended quotation 6 and Deseret i absolutely false as it does not resemble anything that is found Most of his other quotations are from books that H. the speaks of in his p. in his of in the following Sensational regard to the evidence I hereby I will say that never before has it been my lot to meet with such a mass of The attempts of almost all who have written upon the subject seem to have been to make out a case rather than to state the And in relation to opposing almost every book that has been put forth respecting the people of Utah by Mormon is full of one not a each author apparently endeavoring to surpass his predecessor in the libertinism of abuse Most of these are written and for the in a sensational deriving profit by purpose i pandering to a vitiated and are wholly unreliable as to More J Again Schroeder makes the following Kirt-land and Nauvoo had their homes' in so also had Salt Lake notwithstanding the assertions of Schroeder gives no quotations hut puts his own egotism against the newspaper and all principal historians on the The Facts In answer I will little testimony from thoroughly reliable The Clement D. his history of Religious in speaking of which at that time was entirely Morman with Smith as perance 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 vice is meant to be no grog shops are The drunkard is scarcely ever seen on the On page Bancroft in his history of says Mormons are loyal to their eon-sciences 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 of criminals in the Jails' and penitentiaries of Utah it comes down to and includes Prostitution 0 96 Keeping of 0 27 Lewd insulting women 4 27 Drunkenness Violation of liquor ordinance 0 18 Confined in penitentiary 6 22 Confined in Salt jail 24 97 In considering this report it will be remembered that the Mormons were overwhelmingly in the yet this shows how few law breakers are numbered among Bancroft further page the time the Edmunds' bill was all keepers of and nearly all the and saloonkeepers were Until Gentiles settled in Salt Lake City there were seldom heard on the streets or in the dwellings imprecations of Preaches and prostitutes Again Schroeder makes a play to the galleries in the following falsehood of his own make up long profited by the tithing collected from the Saints who need their permission to sanctify the taking of more wives they no doubt found it easy to justify themselves in also accepting a portion of the earnings of the hollow-eyed and painted cheeked Here is a verified statement of who without reserve said in the newspapers and loudly proclaimed on the streets of Salt Lake City that aggressive anti-Mormon parly of Utah was an aggregation of profligates and Schroeder paralleled it with the notorious Schroeder Burchard and Dowie Romanism and John Alexander Dowie took up the same cudgel and branded it Pigs and There is hardly a paragraph in untrue article but what is either a gross or it is reversed or misplaced or a misquoted And what makes his article so very ridiculous is that it is published in a medical Every physician well knows that and child bearing motherhood do not go If a harlot ever does become a mother it is because she did not know how to thwart About seventy per cent of Utah's population is In table page 64 of the Abstract of the census we find that 29 per of Utah's population is Utah's Best under ten years of Pennsylvania 22 per New York 19 por 24 per In many Mormon districts it has been discovered that 33 per cent of the population is less than eight years o According to the report cf the Mormon church for the year 1908 there were families in the church and during 1908 there Mormon and There are unmarried women and more children in Utah than any other The average number of children to the average American family is 2 to Mormon families 5 Mormon chastity and motherhood are the three graces that adorn every good Mormon and none know it any better than To become a f and to direct the destinies of the next generation is the ambition of every good Mormon There are about 35 Mormon students attending the the University of Pennsylvania and the Medical and colleges in Many of them are of polygamous These Mormon students are above the average of the other students in those Probably not one of them is addicted to the drink or the tobacco or is a frequenter of the bawdy Seven Mormon young men graduated from the Jefferson Medical College last a greater percentage according to the population than any other The Editor of the can verify my statement very easily by calling at these great medical There are young Mormon men and 30 young Mormon ladies between the ages of 18 and 24 years of age in the mission field all the time and not one of them a year has been guilty of I am not writing this article to defend the Mormons from the scurrilous attack of Schroeder because they are but because most of them are good citizens of Utah and my A Well Known Schroeder is a well known atheist and a hater and of anything that is For a money consideration he would go back through the musty records of any religious' pick out and magnify all the bad he manufacture what he could not find that he overlook all the good and publish a similar article about any In the Astor New are anti-Methodist and not one of them is true although some were written by English an easy time would have to write a brutal anti-Methodist article and give reference pages for all he What kind of sickle is most seen in Ice |