Show falsehoods FROM THE CENTURY THE boston berald of a recent date has an editorial on the ever prominent mormon question in which some very incorrect statements are aro made on the authority of an article which appeared in the century magazine the article itself is a fraud for it appears as the contribution of alien allen G campbell everybody who has any jac quaint ance with the defeated tool too of the conspirators who plotted in vain for the delegates seat in congress knows that be he is utterly in compe tent to write anything of the kind hind it is without doubt the production of his attorney attorneys who has failed in his raid upon the delegate delegates Is per or diem and la Is as full of bit bitterness t e m eq s 0 over ver the defeat as a person of his cal cai calibre ibro can possibly be there are two or three statements which we will vill briefly notice as they are calculated to mislead the public and there will come a time before long when the truth will emerge from the clouds and smoke which up unprincipled led defamers detainers def deta amers iners have bave raised around if t and people now too much excited to eee see it will become becom moro more rational the herald says bays polygamous wives foreign born bom without the pretence presence pre tendo tence of having been naturalized minors who are ara the daughters of citizens and many persons who claim to have been naturalized by proceedings la ia the probate courts which were utterly void vold have assumed the right to vote the restraints upon male voting are such as virtually to disfranchise the anti mormon population eo so that out of a voting capacity of at least in the county of salt bait lake take alo nethe last election disclosed an aggregate cf of about one tenth that number of the 36 members of the legislative assembly now in session in utah 32 are officers of the mormon mornion church 28 are living in polygamy gain garn Ys though it la is a felony under the act of congress and all tane tare mormons cormons Mor mons s the writer of the the herald has as well as we do that these assertions are untrue the registration is so framed that under its provisions no minor either male or female or other person without the statutory qualifications can vote at any election the probate courts of the territory have not naturalized or attempted to naturalize tur alize any allen alien since the passage of the poland bill bills and that law validated and confirmed all the previous judgments and decrees of those courts up to the time of its passage and writer of the charge does not know of any case of voting by virtue of papers received from those courts the restraints upon male voting are ane that each voter must make oth oath to the registrar that he is twenty one years of age a citizen of the united states either native born or naturalized has resided in the territory biz elz months and in the precinct one month and Is a t taxpayer tax ax payer there is no restriction u upon pon a non mormon that does not equally apply to a mon mor mn 11 and the reason why many gentiles Gentile sll all did not vote to support the illiterate pretended author of the falsehoods quoted by the herald was simply because he was not a representative man and was only put forward for the reason roson that he had some money and could pay for the costs of a contest in relation rel tel atlon to the family affairs of the members cf the legislative As we have to say that they have been grossly misrepresented A statement of wives possessed by those gentlemen has gone the rolnus of the press prem without refutation or correction it was waa the work of a federal office here hene who has since given bia bla namo name to the list and anil who pt personal p ly knowis no more about the matter perhaps less lers was than about the illicit amours of other holders hulders in utah and washington and the statement la is not true in many par ticul Uc arse arre men who have never nad 4 but one wife are counted us a poleg and bomel somei who lave have married more are arts credited with numbers of 0 which they cannot boast the list Js Is simply i ash tush gossip and guesswork and made mada too by a peron person whose doings have been tee the subject of unsavory rumor and who Is 13 so sensitive to the tongue of the tattler that he ought to be icart cautious cau tous ous in any attempt to parade the private affairs of other people the first letters of his bis name nama are M lyl bane in conclusion we draw the attention of those journals which like the boston living in polygamy at af elony under the act of 0 congress to ta the fact that there sa Is no law of congress at present constituting sti ati living in polygamy Ya a crime of any kind bind we ask the boston herald to cite the law if there is one of that character in the statute books and we also draw their attention to tiie the point that being a mormon la Is no disqualification for any office under the laws of this thia territory or of the united states or of any state in the union A little common sense and knowledge of the law as well as the fact would save many editors from such displays of ignorance as are exhibited in almost every an anti antl ti mormon article which appears in the newspapers of this great and enlightened country |