| Show IV t m Or OJ UTAH We u 1 local I In the N NJ J 1 Star SUII which nn ac nc account count of 01 an address In that city ell by b br Mr r V S fo Peat of Suit cm on Utah In reply 1 to 1111 lec loe lecturer who It his business lo 10 defame our wherever r lio ho goon Mr 11 paid special attention to tl th tl story lor that thit Utah are or by the Church Tho to In and 1901 been pointed to tous us 1111 f t such Influence nce Jut Hut Mr lit Peet showed that during those url them were greater changes In Kansas Nebraska Minnesota though that certainly could not be bo laid to the Mormons Then he made the tho following offer If II It ran can be lI shown Jo eph F Smith ho became president of oC the Mormon Church has dominated or Interfered In any 1111 way WIl with th political actions of or any un Individual or party t 1 will give gl 1000 for Cor such Information Mr l Cl also aHo repeated his offer ot that thaL 1000 for tor Information proving any nn plural marriage hart been per performed formed by b sanction of or the Church tho Manifesto Tho hitter of M offer fer Mr Poet has hos made for tor years but nobody haa taken It tip Ul Both noth offers are arc perfectly safe Tho the coun country countr demagogues who go round try tr and falsely accuse tho Saints of oC all kinds ot or evil deeds must necessarily confine themselves to empty words hon asked for tOI proofs they have none They hey cannot oven produce iv n proof when offered largo sums of or money for tor ono one that la Is genuine genuIno ine Ino Mr Peet closed his lecture by b draw drawIng drawIng Ing tho following comparison Only 3 per pel cent of Utah lire ure Illiterate erate while G for or cent ot or Now Jersey could noil her read or write and 07 67 cent of ot the tho of or Utah Ulah owned per lIeI tho homes they the In and only 10 0 per cent or of those homes were j mort mortgaged Only 50 per lieI cent of ot the tho peo poo people 1110 of ot New Jersey Jerse own tho homes they tho In and 35 3 per cent ot them Iere mortgaged mort New Jersey Jert c has hasIt to capita two It licensed saloons per one Utah Ulah has hns n greater per por school children attending cOlta IJ of or antI and n II less of oe paupers criminals and Inebriates than any aU other state should for COl Those ThoRO figures I themselves A tree may mar be bt judged by b Its fruit |
