| Show ANOTHER EXPOSURE OF SLANDER 0 1 th of september a correspondence from elder william 31 palmer ap appeared in this paper the writer showed that the salt sait lake Tribu tribuna was responsible because of the constant konstant stream of anti antl mormon I 1 scandal that fio flo flows ws through its columns column for many of the murderous mur derous assaults made upon the elders As evidence he related his own experience while on a mission in michigan in 1876 7 when he was mobbed and abused on account of a vile and sian derous personal attack upon himself which appeared in in that paper one of the onslaughts to which he referred ap appears ear to have taken place however belore beltre before the abusive article was sent to hla hir field of labor and elder palmer being now in the city we concluded to interview him uvon upon the subject which we did as follo follows wg question in your letter to the NEWS a short time a ago in showing the effects of the vicious ao 50 libels I 1 L els eis of the salt lake tribune in lc outbursts against the elders there ap appeared orthe eared to become discrepancy some of the persecution se to which you were subjected at westville haying evidently occurred shortly before instead of subsequent to the paper named containing a villainous scandal about you reaching that part of the country can you explain pla pia inthis this There Ther ewas wasso so muc much h opposition immediately before and after the sending of the copies of the salt lake tribune containing the scandal in relation to me that circumstances occurring then subsequently got intermixed in my gt memory T this is w was as in consequence bence of my having no written aada data to refer to in my y JOur journal naly which contained all the particulars having been destroyed with the other contents of my trunk when enos roots boots house was burned to the ground by mormon lormon incendiaries it is true that the mobbing described in my letter to the NEWS as having havin occurred at ive westville VVe stville took place before before the copies coples les ies of the tribune reached my field of tabor fabor labor but the other acts of violence were committed after that and were largely caused by the falsehoods of that paper the wheatland outrage was a direct result of the slanderous article regarding me and as proof of this the paper was WEL 11 quoted by the who exclaimed you need not deny these c charges s for they came right f from rom your own territory in the salt lake tribune 11 I 1 many diany times the scandal was thrown at me at different places both b by men and women in february february following the I 1 reception iun ion of the paper contafi containing ig the malicious lies regarding regard lne ine meg mey me iwas I 1 was joined by elder orson eggleston of weber county and while we were together geth erwe we were insulted frequently frequent li by having the scandal flung at usand us and after t hat that when I 1 was alone from the same muse cause a party who had read or heard of the report set a large dog 1 ti hind nInd which which cameal nie me savagely bui but as if it would tear me to pieces but b epame subdued when to it b A at t sylves sylvester ter a short time after the scandal I 1 reached there I 1 ivaa was i forced forato intha discussion with a minister of the adventist church the only source of reference made by my 0 appo orp olp 0 nent being the lying alyin f statements of th the e tribune n abune and an antl antI Mormon book the same clergyman however after atter t wards chan changed eci eel his attitude to me personally and became very courteous in fact I 1 may say that tha ina lna in a general sense I 1 ou outlived t mayd live lise the tribune assault many of those who had been influenced by it to become very bitter subsequently becoming my fri friends entis encis and treating me with marked kindness in proof of this chang change of senti sentiment mentI I 1 mayard may add that the headquarters ad of the mission were established after these occurrence westville continuing about three thred years with but few manifestations of opposition aliton Q what ground had samuel wrose for saying you claimed to have received edth the white ewhite stone spoken of in the bible A none whatever I 1 never made such a statement at any time or in any place the tribune asks first Is it not true mr palmer that you had previous to the eions which you charge upon the tribune persuaded mrs rose the wife of sam rose who wrote the above letter as you style him to believe that it was her duty to leave her husband and follow yau you to utah answer I 1 never attempt attempted od to persuade mrs rose to do any such thing I 1 never told her oran or any other woman that it was her duty to leave leava her husband Se second coid cold Is it not truet true that hat sam rose in merely rely did just what any ny father would have done kept the children and drove the destroyer from his home answer sam rose never drove me from his home third Is it not arne that for far sev ser hev eral years you solicited money from your friends to bring this poor disconsolate widow to zion answer I 1 never solicited money at any time from my friends anywhere to bring this woman to zion fourth Is it not true that you were married to this mrs rose that kind of a rose by any other name would smell as sweet in 1881 answer I 1 never married mrs rose then or at any other time in any place or by any form or ceremony whatever fifth was not your poor faithful first wife nearly crazed at that event I 1 answer no such event having taken place my y wife had no occasion to be nearly nearly crazed sixth was not your first wife then living with her children in glenwood ina lna in a mi miserable erable hovel with a roof made of willows and earth thrown over them through which the water dripped when it rained answer at that time the time I 1 was on that mission my wife ars in n glenwood sevier county and lived in a good log honse house with a lumber roof seventh at that same time was not your 0 u r real wife destitute of suitable food 11 fora r a gornati woman in her delicate condition tiong answer llly rily IS my I wife never saw the time that she was ivas not hot f ully fully supplied with the necessaries of life as well as missionaries sio sion slon narles aries familee usually are w whose hose heads are abroad preaching the gospel without salary 64 eighth are arc you not at this time more than forty vears years of age g and it if so how was it that you were bit bilt a poor obscure boy only el eight years agdell ago answer I 1 am not forty years of a age go ninth were you not sent away on that mission because vou von were of so little account that the chiefs of the church determined to matejou make you earn eam your bread as a missionary answer I 1 never heard of anything of the tile kind and the chiefs of the church were not acquainted with my circumstances at all so far as I 1 know tenth finally when you think back on all the thin things s you did in michigan are you not glad you were sent there instead of to tennessee answer whatever I 1 have done in michigan I 1 am not afraid to meet and in every place where I 1 labored then I 1 haye have tave taye been repeatedly since many in uch such places who were enemies through the helles heiles lies lles of the tribune are now mv friends question by ed D N will wiil you state the facts in regard to mrs rose ain A in the first place sam rose attended all of my meetings with his wife after a time he be quit coming but his wife continued her attendance in company with her brother henry thompson thom and his wife and bye at and id bye stel she was baptized I 1 never was at sam roses house except by invitation I 1 went twice to dinner accompanying him each time ile he always wasand aasand was anil can be proven to le be a poor worthless man addicted to drinking previous to this time his bis wife had left idt him twice but bat afterwards she wont went back to and stayed with him afterpe after he had become bitter I 1 never went near mear their iou lou house e just defore this came caule out in the tribune she was at the time still livin living with him be became so brutal and anil treated her so badly that she left him illin this was in the winter after the fall of 1877 when I 1 returned home to utah she went to millbrook and there them kept boarding house and went out washing to support her ber children rose not doing anything anthina for fon their them during the time that at I 1 f was home some other emers elders wen tout therland there and visited her finding her strong in the faith I 1 returned again to the mits mlis mission sion and saw her only onca once the time of that second mission she had left her husband during the time I 1 was here in utah and on my return to michigan I 1 went to vi visit it her once at her mothers and stepfathers step a fathers house I 1 came home to utah again after staying nearly two years while I 1 was at home in utah sheva she was married to a non mormon ll 11 and Is still living with him near millbrook brook mecosta decosta Me costa county michigan I 1 have heard the name of her present husband but have forg jorg forgotten gotten it I 1 can further state rate that john herrington who is mentioned in sam roses letter which states that he and henry thompson were dragged into 11 mormonism m 11 b by their wives now lives ilves at glen gien glenwood booy sevier county in this territory can certify and is prepared to do it to tile the fact of the tribune sending its papers into that neighborhood and to the violence caused by them henry thompson a brother in law ot rose came wp wilh his wife to utah in 1878 lived for a time ion cottonwood and this spring moved to arizona in response to a call made upon them to take a mission to that country both these families are strongly stron strong gln gin in uhe the falth saith today to day and their affidavits to support my statement tf scan can doubtless be forthcoming comin at any time herrington thoin son and mrs birs rose hose were all ali baptized at the same time and did go twelve miles from their ho homes to attend maetina me etina which I 1 was holda holding with a branch of the chur church chatter chafter atter after which they requested baptism the foregoing L I 1 a a coffi complete piete ref refutation uta of the slanders slander of the tribune not only has the infamous course of that paper contributed to the creation and bw bielling swelling elling of the tide of brutal persecution se in elder palmers halmers Pal mers case but in hundreds of other instances leading even to the shedding of the blood of innocence its slanders have not only been infamously false fabricated for outside enn eff effect act and the accomplishment of ulterior purposes but they have been of the most cowardly character look for instance at the array of questions put by that sheet to elder palmer every one of which can be truthfully answered in the negative the effect intended by these interrogations a to be created abroad is that ilat t elder palmer is guilty of the of fences referred to by them and just look at the character of the innuendoes lauen does resorted to by the journalistic bushwhacker they were formulated for tor the purpose of conveying the impression that the object of the scurrilous attack had seduced sed uceda i wife from her husband and family emliy f and taken possession of her that he had destroyed the tho peace of his own family thereby as well as of the one upon which ho he is alleged to have committed the trumped up outrage that he kept his wife in a condition cf perpetual destitution under the most aggravated circumstances that he be wak wai was sent on a mission because he was of no use at home aad that while abroad he conducted himself so disreputably mutably as to be deserving of death surely neither pen nor tongue could be prostituted prostitutes to greater depths of infamy than to be used with such unsparing malignity against an unoffending well conducted man moan in order to create prejudice abroad against him and tae tac community with which he is connected not only are these anterro interrogate In terro terno ito alto 1 ries false an I A brutal but they illustrate the old adage that ralmer raimer any an lo 1 olcan ask questions elder palmer was not aware that they had been published until he reached this city on monday last the perfidy of the person who penned these questions can perhaps he aptly illustrated by addressing a few to himself lat Is it liot wot true that when you lived at virginia city nevada you secretly associated with a gang of thieves and anil robbers and helped them to lay a pian plan for murder and rob robbery berys resulting in the assassination of the paymaster of a certain ascertain mine and can you deny that you received rec elved a considerable portion of the spoils lis ils obtained from fro in the perpetration pepet ration of 01 that dark and bloody deed ad Is it not true that you are now living I 1 in 11 adultery with a notorious woman ad 1 Is 19 9 it not true that vou were connected with a bank robbery in nevada and that you only escaped the punish punishment you sou deserved by the tiie free use of the money you obtained by that transaction ath Is it not also true that you have in the most cowardly and inexcusable manner together with your associates dispensed tile the most false and malignant slanders about innocent people who have never harmed you and that you consequently ought to hide your head in shame were were we unprincipled like the american gentlemen who conduct the ahe salt lake tribune Tri buney bunel we vve would let such questions po go out unanswered that a false impression in regard to the character of an individual and class of the community might be made did we resort to 10 such a dishonest and villainous practise as this as illustrated by the animadversions upon elder palmer we would neither be entitled to our own respect nor that of any decent people this being beins the situation we state that to our best information and belief the first three of these questions could be correctly answered with a decided negative out the proof which shows that an affirm affirmative att ve should be given to number four is f furnished almost dally daliy with nearly every issue of the sheet to whose mendacity we have referred but blit our illustration ought to be semmi seffi clent to show how wide a de its conductors in their durnal diurnal course have haie taken from the golden tule rule 11 |
