| Show j i ELlIS a DUPLICITY 1 A brief review ot of the th articles on n nl l In the Arena for tor May Mayb b Already appeared In I these thue column olumn tho flo last Jut ot of the three thre papers on that cl by John JQhn T 1 was u not critically discussed d b bt but merely referred t to io as u containing nothing to merit t serious notice it Is II set ao et ribald rl ald In III Its It ItI I 1 contemptuous In Its Ui treat l i nt t t topics and frivolous when touching on sacred d matters that wo we w dismissed It summarily and left letl the tho tender to compare It With the article In the tha name fame lam I number of ot the th it Arena AreRa a by tw President Joseph F Smith I t then however we have been b en re reto to give gle further attention to a aJ It contains co nt l against alnet th the deceased J Apostle Parley P 1 Pratt We therefore Opy front from It the following paragraph i in Sn relation to the chapter on the Book Dook of Jt Mormon In Elder Pratts Voice of ot otI 1 I Warning Mr Nt Bridwell says aay Tile The fourth chapter Is i devoted In m part to the Book Dook of or Mormon It ft tells telia tell II ot of Us it II itC C wonderful v discovery and the startling JI eventa f tl that attended It A careful ar ft c I then follows toll OWl In which lib b shows J t it 1 tt to t be aln In accord with the traditions traditIon 5 11 of t f the American Indians Indian whose an all ancestors I arid and kinsmen are supposed ed to EH have bave written It In this thi argument la Is f J the following quotation from Dr Bou Dou Boudinot 1 dinoto author of ot A Star In the West It Is II said eald among their principal or ort i t beloved men m en that they th have haye It handed Ii Mown from their ancestors that SUCH BUCK i t t A BOOK as us the white while people have hae was wall f t 1 once nee their that while they th y had it they thet g iI j prospered exceedingly etc eta Dr lieu Bou i says las in the passage quoted 1 I that TIlE THE BOOK which the tho white while p pee o oI I Pie Ille le have hare was a once theirs THE TU nOOK BOOK c f 18 19 the Bible Dible SUCH A BOOK AS ac at according f 1 cording to Pratt would be the Book flook of ot The reason for the change IK is 1 ild Etc Ete In m the quotation r rep p resents etta e the following but hut that th tim people IleO le bought It of ot them and l many things from It while the Indians Ion lort their credit offended the I 1 great Brent spirit and suffered exceedingly from rum the neighboring nations Too Tim omitted section says that the Indian tradition claims that the Indians had the very book booi which the white people have bave 1111 So 80 far tar as Mr Pratt Pr tt gave us this thin ti quotation words are ore right Only S I Jh the altered Portion Is III used In this Ir ar r rt t t t tide Three are changed The J 1 II altOgether In the e dir of at th thIn e 1 writers Int rest In that paragraph the Lile author of ot the he v Voice Volee of ot Is of ot in Inte te changing three Hire words In tn J A Star atar In the West Weal so 10 sog g ato u as to fit nt Into Inlo the tM writers Interest in m 1 his hi argument as to the Book or Ot Mor llor Mormon 1 mon mon Bridwell admits that list In m Mr I Pratts quotation IK i words are right and Ud obI ot j three lInee ore are changed d nut But 1 t tf 1 doe does oe not reproduce the lal he hI prof professes wH lo to gIrt only ony tb th tim aUd portion Now I let Ie us II turn to th Voice VOc of or Wu and copy cop the words om as th they y a luAlly ily ilyn n ii appear H litre ro they are verbatim says sars Mr It ft li la I said Rmon their t or beloved belo m mn men n that they h hie u It U hanl handed d down from rite tou that tho tb book which th the 1 people have hov was wt 11 one once th theirs r that hat white th thy y had It th thy they y ftC etc Ie ue IntI 1 of Hider Pratt having haIng jj banged hs ged thi e I words ns os charged by his h 4 Mr hat bus changed chan the th 4 p the r ry ralf r lf f of ur f iiri HIP th n gub Aub o oI I n The Hull Itoh P word A BOOK DOOK on tin which l hit his attack atuck are ar arnot areto not 0 to be foun in the q a it 11 iv Ien n In iI tho VOll oit tiC of but bUI ore nit nl the taiji of the acou r al and nJ rOdA I Ihl Mi ku hl own onn lo ni Infamy w wh we h flit d to t place words worda In m mi itati a I i 10 so 9 ai as n to lb set 8 eft th b m In by 11 a machine machIn iI l h hll no mo italics l At ft f the e fame am ch charac rac si t bl h 1 1 9 bof the deceased d hr do K t Bridwell rfd ell In to the thet i t L Li Lter i rt ter Iii r nut next paragraph to tho th one ono copied 81 above 0 Here Her It Is Another quotation from H Ii found otinO on the following Tho firm half halt of or It II consisting of 17 47 words word Is l right Then Than follows follow There Ther In Is Ina l la Isa a tradition related by an ott Aped Aged Indian Indiano I all allot of ot o tit thi hi tribe that their fathers wet Vr ones In ot f a n aV DOli V WAS HANDED DOWN tWill E I TO 19 r AND ANU AT Al LAST HiD III IN TUB TUN EARTH nTH since III nee which thus have MIO l under the feet of lit a their or oracles M were wert ver to bo be to tn theta lignin und and then tIlt thy they auM triumph ov over r their PM enemies III l In s and andr andI r regain thor country to with i rights and amI privileges 9 This S S j us th n fl d from u uv P Pi p nou lIllO i by Trull If It we wI w take the Ihl paM p e M It occurs in lit A Star StarIn In the w WAt st thin thi flatly contradicts It ItH How H w ran Ian we explain Search Tl from rain cover to cover and the d Book section be 00 found Lound Nail was WIl helping h the Lord out olt of cours c Urse It li IC I Josephs Lord by m mahu nu i ih testimony te to 0 sustain hi tile book b Ok ff 1 IP It n II What els r Ca n It I be 1 It Is III untrue nn n It Is II III li I for It to bs ha b a 11 mistake Too Toom m y thing are ire to tonU allow nU ev even n for tor a II moment mom lit that this III m a tL lapse of or memory It Il l I ii rather ther a I I lapse lapile P B Bof of morals norah We w must again refer reer to the Voice of Warning and show Iho how ho Mr luts l n deliberately s Its nu ito In order to Jeer J r nt rt thu 1011 and sneer inter at the Prophet We W flail find that the reference to tho the tradition related by byan byan an aged Indian of ot the tribe that their fathers tather were one once In posses possession I IsIan stan sion of ot a Sacred look Is not given by b Mr Pratt as us a IL quotation from but as 11 his own statement of oC that tradition lie He says Mr record many traditions tradition similar to tu the but tut does not attempt to give the aged Indians story an liD having been n re is related r by Thus all nil Mr wells ribaldry and searching of ot nots book from cover cover to cover a e enot not only In vain but ate are founded on a fallacy or rather a 11 shameful falsehood of ot lila his own manufacture But flut hI he is not content content with thus Ihus ma maligning lignIn the author of ot the Voice of ot Warning he lie proceeds to vilify the Prophet Joseph Smith and his hili success successors ors pre He Ie says ays This happened as liS early as 1839 yet nt JI ph Smith never reproved It The Lord should certainly certaInty have hove told him of the sin ln In of ot his Apostle but he never did Iid so Joseph died without anything so creditable to his hili prophetic office oc or occurring occurring and his hili successors In amer whether they sit lilt lt at nt Lamont or Suit Salt Lake City have to this time f failed ll d to tomake tomake tomake make any nay correction And they ate nto Inspired SO WAS WATT Again we may nifty ask uk was vas the early Cathy Mornion Church ever guilty of ot duplicity Who can cnn deny HT It TIt If they the would deceive the people about the Book Dook of Mormon they would do tho the same thing about the The purpose of ot Mr article Is la to a charge deception not only against Parley P Pratt but against the tho Mar Mor Mormon mon alan Church In relation to the practice of plural marriage Ito He takes the avow nOW avowals ida als of ot prominent Mormons Mormon male and female that hat the ht spiritual wife and polygamy abominations of ot John C CBennett Bennett Bennetti tt arid d others Other secretly Introduced In III ti Nauvoo were wee re not n t authorized by the Church and them Into denials of ot the thedo doctrine of ot celestial marriage as al expounded expound In the revelation dated July 12 1813 the tha th two theories and practices being dissimilar and antagonistic This ThU may arise e from Ignorance on his ls Ia part but viewed In the he light of ot his hi wilful perversion of Pirl Parity y P Pratts writings and ond his substitution of ot his hl own words tot for those of ot that eminent writer the entire production smacks smocks of ot that duplicity which he falsely tal l charges against the Saints In our former reference to that article we expressed surprise that the Arena Meno permitted It to appear in the columns of ot that able magazine Closer Investigation gation atlon of ot It increases our astonishment and emphasizes our contempt for tor the subterfuges and mean fabrications It contains which however form torm but ad additional Illustrations of ot the fact tact that the virulent of ot M are lire usually compelled In order to make a 11 point to resort to vile and shameful misrepresentation As te A the writer of ot the Arena article Is announced Of Ot the National Anti Mormon Missionary Association the allious of ot his hie contribution Is la easily ac ao accounted counted for tor And the tame same may be beald said lId of ot tim the strained efforts It contains to place Mormon writers and Mor Mormons mona mons generally In an untruthful light before the tIle American public Other of et effusions fusions from the same source may be estimated at their true trub value alue by weigh weighing log ing them In the scales furnished by b Mr Ir li II iii the he May Arena |
