Show STAKE PRESIDENT BRINGS GRAVE CHARGES to the alio reversed Re Bo verned mm fleiner nen ver utah vear madam your narno namo has haa been connected with rumor Bof late in connection with being tile the author ot of a certain defamatory and ancl hcan dolous article concerning con cornin tile the people of beaver anil and since you have refused tile writer the privilege of reading said article and knowing your willing disposition to rush into inlo print we call upon you to make public the article in in question which you have written and published to your our friends find and magazines in the east that you deny curtain cottain statements in said eaid article which your friends chargo you with having made does not int the off anti and when these statements ore are BO be rank as to cause our heretofore friends who have read the article to repudiate them and you we have reason to believe that there are ara modern as well as aa ananiades Anani afes yo i admitted to the writer that the of aleaver hall had treated you with the greatest courtesy and respect during our residence here arid and to show lour deep appreciation you resort to maligning mali gning nod and slandering plundering them in return and that too in a surreptitious manner it is written in tile the good book thou not bear false witness agai against thy neighbor Is it necessary to violate that commend command in order to prove the following blessed fire are you arien men shall revile you and say any all manner of evil against you falsely fur for my names sake now madam stand up and answer it if you have made statements in m substance as follows F first iret there are over 2000 people in beaver CO 60 of whom aro are non mormons cormons and not one christian second there are mare deformed weak minded and unfortunate persons bere beio than iri in any community where you have formerly resided and wet th at the cause of this condition is third that men women arid and even little children have an ancient woo woe be rone gone and some quote you as saying tl degenerate appearance and facial expression the result of polygamy and inbreeding fourth that there is more crime immorality and pru profanity fanity to be found here than in any other place you have visited fifth that the death rate is very high averaging from two to four deaths per week and that mormons cormons in their funeral services consign to the arms of jesus the suicide and murderer you give an extensive dissertation deeBert desser alion tation upon uia tile marriage covenant anant and temple ordinances ordinance all of which you havo have gleaned from your associations with this people hut but in reality you now admit you copied from the lies files ot of the tribune those these and various other unwarrantable charges it is said are contained in your article was wab it to gain this fund 0 of information that you have wormed your presente presence pre into the homes of unsuspecting cormons mormons Mor mons under the pretext of dispensing sume small email wares when you had before you this mental picture of men women and little children with ancient loons had bad you son been in communion with your own family and boen been going over again the old family album or when yon yen were writing to your friends depicting the crimes which existed and the numerous nume rouB criminals in the community did you ou tell your our friends that oven even in your own family there was nas a member who had departed hom the paths of honesty and is now suffering sum fering ring in durance vile for hl his is wrongdoing such a i confession humiliating ns as it may be would no doubt have called forth foith expression of sympathy Bm from your our friends of the east we will not apply to you ou what a writer liss lias said about the forked tongue of slander blander because we have no desire to wound your fe perhaps if these things which so deeply concern the people of header beaver were told to them personally aud and in your lucid stylo style and manner it might prove the means of causing cansina a reformation reforma tiou in our community nod and be the means of turning many from their weye ways that there are evils existing here we do not deny and they are no credit to our people or community und and you should be one with us in endeavoring to suppress these evils and not parade them before the world horld in conclusion it if you will consent to present your article antiole to a beaver audience we v will ill undertake to furnish you a public hall free of charge acl advertises the your our meeting loi for tho the people are I 1 entitled to know lh high esteem n which you ou hold bold them or of would oil prefer that brorn roia these reports the icv plo should ever hold bold you in remember ance as an ingrate returning evil eil for good uric ono whose mission is to teach christianity and who wad was first to violate its very essence J P F TOLTON i beaver utah august aad 2nd 1913 1013 |