Show mendacious REPLY revly TN th llis liis ANT antl ig r 0 mancusi 1 1 to the uie editor of the litter inter ocean cashis ton jan 21 in your issue of the 14 icah dinst I 1 notice comments based base dupon upon statements said to have been made by the rev llev D J an of the presbyterian work in utah among other things assert asserted etl eti is that tha the mornion mormon priests scruple at nothing and have absolute control of all elections 22 ili in this matter the re verned reverted revern cd gentleman is certainly in error for to my knowledge mormon priests scruple at many things gs they for instance entertain a scrupulous ad herrence of falsehood in every form and always try to be consistent and truthful believing g that the measure they mete io to others re regardless ard of prompting motives will in the dispensation 0 of f providence meted back to them As the peoples party the mormons cormons in utah have generally elected friends rather than those who misrepresent them and they tiley have not thought tt criminal to do so do not 1 1 cans caus and democrats whether presbyterian terl teri methodist Cath catholic olid or do likewise where they have the necessary majority malo maio rity with which to accomplish it asto aado As to elections ili in utah I 1 had sup the honorable united states commissioners acting by authority of national law and not mormon priests contro controlled mether arther commissioners the statements of the reverend chris chrls fian iian cle cie clergymen r y i n to loathe the contrary notwithstanding with stan ing evidently think so and I 1 am quite sure that the mormons cormons uve have no reason to question what to them is a stubborn and WELL established the existence of which though not the injustice of it is beyond the domain of ar argument ament if the ile rev mcmillan really believed t hat that the young swedish farmer and h his 18 9 promised ro ased bride were put out of the wai waa way by y canites or any other ites why di did it he a not notify the officers of the law acquaint acquainting in them with the facts if if such existed upon which was based his bis s belief As a minister why did heno he not noi 0 voice from the pulpit at the time Is horrible suspicions failing failing to do s so 0 would he have intelligent people eople believe that foul murder could be perpetrated ina lna in a populous tei tel territory and nobody know anything abou tit or even hear of it until he agn aln announces announces ounces the dark su suspicion through the columns of a daily newspaper published hundreds of miles from the place where the alleged I 1 ced eed crime was supposed ed to have been ca committed where were the gentiles of utah when tho the young swede and hl his els betrothed disappeared free speech and unfettered press exist in utah as elsewhere in this land of liberty why therefore ej did not this servant of a truthful master invoke their utterances in arousing to action the tho maj majesty sty of the law and its officers that the whereabouts dead or alive of of those young and innocent people might be ascertained railroads telegraph tere graph lines and swift horses w were ere there at the service of the united states marshal and deputies ever Teady ready to act un berthe direction of judicial authority district and supreme court jud judges es were there dijour did our presbyterian brother invoke the aid of any of these if not why not I 1 would such a course have spoiled the sentence it is fatal for arilo a mormon rm on to become an apostate the vengeance eane cane e of the church pursuit pursuing him to abath death WHAT broody BLOODY WORK would necessarily result if this were truel true it is not so easy to establish ne negatives atiles as to make assertions and it is less difficult to prefer charges than ahan for those against whom they are madai madat to disprove them in this case it haw ever the united states census re reports taw arts afford the refutation of a slander tho the baseness of which must be apparent to all acquainted with the facts the census reports show ghow that utah con ton tallied in a isso ism aw apostate mormons cormons Mor mons or nearly 5 per cent of tile tiie entire lation of the tiie territory have these been pursued to death by the vengeance of the church why str sir such crime would almost equal the foul deeds perpetrated pet rated cd in the name of religion in the darkest days of the inquisition think of it murder in a single territory or at the rate of four a day clay ft 31 a week 4 i month 1407 l tot a year this story over leaps the mark our christian friend should jre revise vise ylse a little molasses mixed with vinegar draws more files flies and that truth converts even oyen mormons cormons Mor mons it is appropriate here to quote from the writings of the theR rev cv ballardi Ballar bailard dJ S I 1 dunn presbyter of the protest protestant episcopal church chur cli cil whose letter letters written from salt lake city cri were published in the new york tribune in 1877 and subsequently in pamphlet form by the american news company campati y ills his writings evidence no sympathy for mormonism but he says when I 1 speak of the long list of mormon ormon crimes committed in the past I 1 do dot not wish to be understood as considering them thein a preeminently pre eminently criminal people on the contrary it Is is my settled opinion lons ions resting upon very thorough investigation ti that they are less legs stained stain edwith with blood than an any community of equal size alze south of tf the le missouri or west of the mississippi river take a population of bo from any port portion loii of texas and it will surpass them in violent deaths for the last natt fifteen e in years five to one the small city city 0 of f ayears pioche loche just over the line lu in nevada a L has slain more i nen men during tife the jast last six years than the whole population or of utah have slain alid and when it Is further stated that till THE MAJORITY OF its committed in this territory durina duning the last seven years are justly chargeable changeable to the gentile residents the dark and murderous character the mormons mormon unjustly be bear ar should be farther illuming bated 11 how inexpressibly sad is the thought that forces on a reluctant mind the conviction that many wha profess to be followers of the bleek and lowly jesus are arc strangers to ills his spirit and alid doctrines the mormons cormons Mor mons are feeling u this more keenly t than han word can tell terl yet they entertain malice none beiles belies lug that god will ivill not nod per nil nii alt thuman human justice ard arld arid divine righteousness ness to be wholly divorced the presence of these two elements renders pure christianity possible without them nothing not liing can be expected but confusion dogmatic creeds insincerity conflict c tivy euvy hatred and false accusations cusat ions lons from these may heaven deliver us ua mois moses mols TiL aner anen chawgo inter ilter await ocea 9 e in vienna an ordinance of the mur mud mu til Iti cipal council forbids a m married ma man from taking a voyage ina in lna a balloon until it is proved to th the satisfaction of the authorities that he has received the consent of his wife and children |