| Show exl 1 A TO journ SOURN journalism ALISH jk lit lir noticing tho the reports of bome bomb of the colorado excursionists we alluded to an aa alleged interview with 11 11 taylor taylon by A boh bohemian demiany emi any published in the denver denven tribune wo we pointed out soma boma inaccuracies in the account and attributed them to unintentional mista ket het on the part of the reporter we have since zoad road another letter by the tho samo bamo writer in which he himself aa ets a contemptible elawad intentional il defamer da ramer famer and we uaea magi c the present opportunity of posting him an aa a low lived ruffian and a disgrace to hib his profession this may be thought strong language bet when wo we give bome some quotations frein frem 1118 ills letter to the denver tribune we think that all classes of people in this city will agree that if there Is 13 any fault jr jre our expressions concerning him they aro are too mild and do nod noi approach full fuli justice wo we pass paha by a number of absurd remarks about tho mormons cormons Mor Mons and cup clip the following 1 I had the pleaus pleasure of meeting a member of the edmunds commission at the Continental and in speak ing of this law the commissioner said the law Is defective and some of the members aro are bought off As hoon boon soon as a number of them arrived a urge delegation of oc mormons cormons waited upon them and tho the interviews and ani cash propositions to be generally satisfactory to both parties you ou see continued the colmia commission stoner or that thai the tha law la 13 defective in ono one particular and that is in to polygamous marriages the law now reads that if a man has been married to one wife more than two years ho he cannot be brought to trial lor forthe the tho commitment of the tiie crime kand I 1 am free to fital state 1 e that marr lagoa are ate taking place every day the way they work it la thle they are married enjoy their unlawful practice practices sj and keep heep it quiet for two years and then give it out cold that they are married and the tha law cannot reach them eapp Bapp oie oia again continued the that the tha law could bib bab b a made maie to reach them wo we would have about the same bame the courts juries and omm of meers leers are all cormons mormons Mor mons and of course mormons cormons win will not convict one another of 0 what they are all guilty of even it the law had a larger scope we could not convict them everybody here knows that the statements in those three paragraphs bre ire not nol only absolutely untrue but such as no member of the commis sion blon could poE possibly sibly have made it 13 extremely improbable that the bohemian met one of ef the commissioners mise loners ners at all if we are not were none nono in the city at the tha time of the col orado excursion but bat bo be that as it may mayi there is ia not one of those gen tiemen tiemon so base as to intimate Int imata anything 0 the hlad hjad manufactured by the vagabond from danver denver the B edmunds lw iw it IF ia well known has iro ifo nothing thing to bay say about the length ol of time at which prosecutions for polygamy shall be barred the bohemian has heard something about the thu united states statute or 01 limitations but does not understand ite provisions pro visions and in making up the falsehoods saide falde hoods hooda which he has attributed ti t the he ha has simply displayed nis tua ignorance aa a well as bh hla mendacity it Is ia also well weil kiwo kiwa ha own wn that instead of courts J juries urles uries and ollI officers cers cera in utah being all cormons mormons Mor mons I 1 they thay are al non imon mor imor rigone 11 the judges and officers being appointed appoint eJ by the president alid and senate of the united states mhd no mormon being permitted to merveon serve berve on a jury when a case cabe casaol of polygamy 19 ib ia 19 tried no Commiss lonor la 13 13 so densely ignorant of the law and the facts as the denver Bohem bohemian laO iao would mahe maize it appear and the brute has not nol the ordinary intelligence of the tribe trite of Interview pro ot of which he ia unworthy who manufacture re pa ports porta raj of conversations with and gain a precarious livelihood by their so called 1 abr they havo hava ingene sharpness enough to mako make their statements emonts plausible but what he has hns to eay say about a private mormon party to which h 6 ecla ocla ima lma to have been invited is fkr fir v orse orso than the palpable false wjk that hohag hohas he has charged to the account of ono oue of the commission erb era erst hesaki 11 i 19 ying with friends in lit atess this beautiful city who are surrounded by cormons mormons Mor mons they being tho the on only gentiles in several blocker bloc bioc blocks kir kid 1 I became acquainted with several beveral mormon ladies and as a matter of couX courtesy tesy they wanted mo me to attend a social gathering I 1 accepted tho the invitation and was promptly on hand at 9 in the evening tho the guests wera wena entertained entert almed aimed royally so to speak speake but the mode of enter entert would not bo be acceptable to the people outside of large reclining chairs were the beat bents and soon I 1 found myself surrounded bevy of ladies who squeezed my hands and one sat eat down in the same chair with me wine win 0 and cake were served and each guest partook of a large amount and soon the married ladies and some were present with thein thelt husbands hus bande became more free in speech und and actions I 1 began to think I 1 had bad probably made a mistake but on inquiry found out that it was tha the modus operandi of all parties by the mormons cormons Mor bior mons I 1 have no hesitancy whatever in braying raying that the actions i of the men and va women that evening would have disgraced a holladay street bagnio but what was still worse woree in regard to it was tho the fact that the hostess had four small children the tho oldest being about 13 years of age and they were in the parlor watching the tho actions and abon abor absorbing bing tile tiie conversation ven ration which in its character would tend even to corrupt men another peculiarity was that the man who takes a lady to a mormon social is not expected to take her home and several married ladles ladies who were present all left at the cloas closs of the evenings evenin ovenin gd entertainment with a di merent Terent gentleman than tile the ono one they accompanied to tha the social gathering such practices as these tend not only to corrupt the children who are oye eye witnesses to all of it but to older men as aa well thia is one of the evils of polygamy and to do away with one it Is absolutely necessary to do away with a all nil 1 11 we do not know what kind hind of company the tho bohemian strayed into but the foregoing does not describe any 9 mormon family or custom if he be was invited ted to share the hospitality of any lady or gentleman la ia thib thia city and hay hag toiuo shamefully abused the courted courtesy y extended to him he is ia unfit to he be recognized by any respectable person mormon 1 1 or gentile but we believe that ho he has invented the whole thing from first to last it is the tho offspring of a prurient mind it does not describe any custom or habit of the mormon people the statement that the man who takes tabes a lady to a mormon social Is ia not expected to take her home and so forth la Is a falsehood and his insinuations proceed from a base and filthy soul the follow Is ilg a dirty dog and we ask the denver tribune to make inquiries of other representatives of the press that visited this city at the same bame time whether they saw or any thing while in this city to justify the vile assertions of tho the bohemian who has balon befouled led the columns of the tribune we expect attacks upon the creed and social system of the majority of the people of utah we find no fault with journalists who oppose us on the ground of principle but we think that a respectable paper lihu nho the denver tribune is letting itself down to a very low level in publishing the falsehoods ot of a creature who must be steeped in degradation and lost to all bense benge of honor and decency one more quotation and we haye haya done with him in company with several others othera I 1 attended the tabernacle sunday and heard george Q cannon and president taylor orate to the people the substance buba suba tanco of their sermons wore were to the abuse of the gentiles talking about crops and buch euch matters and telling the people to do with less meat furniture and other luxuries of life that they could give more mere to the church in excess of the tenth that they now we appeal to tho the gentleman of f the tho colorado press who were present on the occasion referred to whether anything of the hind kind asserted by bohemian wab wag mentioned by either of the aliers prest cannons discourse appeared verbatim democrat Damo crat of july and has been published in this paper and there is not a line in it that refers 2 to either of the subjects claimed to havo have been preached udon unon it Is plain that lri bohigian Bohi mian has attempted to write a letter that he imagined would suit the popular taste and the common notions about mormon lar laj a clairs affairs ho he has only shown that he is not fit to be called a journalist that he ought to be bent to coventry by every member of the profession who haa bas any regard for decency and that the denver tribune made a great mistake ja in sending bere here as its representative an unprincipled and dissolute bohemian instead of a man |
