Show 0 I 1 THE HERALD HOAXED THE new york herald has not had a great deal to say of late on the mormon question but its silence has been disturbed by a communication from a person at ogden who appears to be a candidate for a position in that place without the heavenly city described in the last chapter of the apocalypse it is an an attempt to relate what it baking place in utah to the personal knowledge of the writer for the evident purpose of arousing arp using congress 9 ress to inimical action and foste fostering fill unfavorable feeling in the east to towards vard the mormons cormons Mor Alor mons 11 the letter contains a pretended synopsis of president george Q cannons remarks a short time a ago go in the ogden egden tabernacle with sentences ces interpolated by the writer falsifying the 8 speak ehk ouk ers object and the tenor ot of his is remarks As a sample sampie samp of the stuff which the new york herald prints under brints a number of sensational headlines ead cad lines iines we quote the following every mormon in who practices polygamy at atall all ail there being some who N do not is this very day d ay iy casting his eyes about for a new llew wife whom lie he will marry as scon as astound found 61 polygamous marriages that i ithe the ceremonies thein theiu themselves selves are arc as secret as the workings of masonry conducted exclusively within the sealed scaled doors of the tabernacle perfectly impervious to the eyes of t the he lawand law and ibcal cula curably bly beyond the reach of proof not a day passes that one or more of these ceremonies is not celebrated amid the tiie fervent prayers of the inspired saints rejoiced to see tile good work go on the exhortations of of the apostles for others to go and do likewise not letting one hand band know what the other is doing while tile tiie pall of oppression over overshadows their holy cause and amid the less dignified chuckles of tile the more vindictive of the faithful ul at the thought of the slick manner in which they are evading the law and rind doing the meddlesome yankees up 11 after citing elting several cases which the writer pretends occurred to liis ills his own personal knowledge lie says the ceremony was berf performed ormed in each case at night in the tabernacle with witnesses who were supposed to be reliable in 1 keeping leeping keepin cepin the aclair secret erom from the foregoing it t is plain that this mendacious correspondent is a new hand at his business unfamiliar with mormon marriage and h having avlue hi insufficient sufficient sense to pick up general information ills his repeated statement that plural marriages are arc celebrated in the tabernacle and at night and are occurring every day cre are are arc such stupid errors error s that almost any gentile could have told him to the contrary tra r if he had taken the trouble to ma make c I 1 inquiries and there is one thing by which most of these sensational sons of the father of lies usually betray their folly and falsehood they state that these marriages are solemnized in secret with sealed doors 11 and in such a wily vily manner that the right band hand is nod not suffered to know what the left hand is doing and yet they are arc able to tell through tiie tile columns of a public journal how hoty many of such in marriages arria cs are solemn zed and give a description of the persons entering into them in one sentence ten cothey they will refer to the terrible vows of lecresy that are arc imposed and the impossibility of le learning arnin anything about plural marria marriages es i and in the next pretend to relate w what at marriages have taken place to their flown own personal knowledge here is this writer claiming to tell all about the marriages recent recently lk entered into in ogden and yet he says sats if perchance you quiz them about their heir t matrimonial affairs they will tell y vou you on that all of these females excepting one are their thel their sisters and their aunts and how are you going to disprove it it cant be this stuff printed in the great new york daily is nothing but gossip which forms the basis of all the reliable liable C information on mormon affairs that most of the eastern papers offer to their readers and in thi it is repeated in malice as the annexed quotation shows 1411 if anything destroys polygamy it will w ill lii be force and force too of the most undoubted kind statesmen at washington need not stady into nervous prostration on the subject for their enactments will but add fuel to the flames I 1 we need not be astonished at anything when whon the subject of mormonism I 1 is I 1 in question but still we are somewhat surprised at seeing sucha such a batch of stuff in the new york herald whose editors have surely leannea learned enough to know that marriages are not solemnized in the mormon tabernacle at any time and penetration enouch enough to see that the whole letter claiming claidine to have been written in 6 oden ogden 1 den 1 is s nota nothing 11 ig but a bucket of slop unworthy of bein being 1 emptied into the columns of a leading newspaper |