Show OFFICIAL contradiction THERE is an old saw to the enn eff effect act that a lie will travel ten tell leagues while truth is putting on his boots ivsich is exemplified almost daily in the lies which are circulated about the I 1 mor mons 11 As a rule newspaper men seize with ith avidity and do their best to circulate any auy anything thing that is unfavorable to the cormons mormons Mor mons which by themay the way almost invariably happens to be that which is untrue but they are very loth indeed to publish bublis h anything I 1 in their f favor avor or in otner other words the truth about them an all example will serve to illustrate this on the arrival of a company of I 1 I 1 mormon I 1 emigrants in new york in november last the new york kiib klin published a sensational story about a young girl named lavinia coop being rescued from the ohe mormons cormons Mor mons through the intervention of 0 friends and about certain violent efforts being made by the elders who accompanied nied the company to compel her to go along with them as well as scandal scandalous 0 us statements about those same el elders eiders ders drinking card playing eoe ece on the voyage from liverpool to new york not only was this scandalous story copied extensively by american newspapers and in many instances dilated upon but the english papers also took it up and made the most of it some of them thew even going so far in the matter in ater as to call for governmental govern mantal int interference clerence to prevent the mormons cormons Mor mons from cap capturing turin lurin and forcibly takina away the young women of great britain nor was this all for the story served as a pretext for anti mormon I 1 lecturers to issue sensational placards and call public meetings with a view to arousing the popular indignation and having the mormons cormons Mor mons driven butof Eng england iaria laria in view of all this it may be imagined how utterly hopeless would be the task of getting a contradiction of this statement circulated as extensively as it was probably Fro bably babiy not one paper in twenty that published the or orinal original inal inai story would admit a ref refutation u of it in its columns and yet the original story contained but one atom of truth and that was that such a girl left tue the company of mormon emigrants in new york it was a matter of no particular concern to the company or the elders in charge that she did so forshe for she was not a rut aber 0 ot their falth falta and they felt no special interest in her emigrating 11 to utah the fact that miss bliss coop joop aop fo found und mormon hating passengers on board the boat while crossing tile lile atlantic and yielded to their af pf persuasions to remain annew in new york instead of proceeding to utah did not surprise those who knew her she bhe had several months previously shown that she had bad no mind of her own by yielding yi eldin g to the persua persuasions persuasion slon sion of a sectarian minister and quitting her foster mother when they were about to embark upon the cars at stockport to emigrate to utah upon that occasion her foster mother had only been gone a few dayd daye when the gir relented and applied to tile tiie mormon elders in that region to know if they could not assist her to eull euli crate to utah and it was at her solicitation that the lady who had reared her and had proved as kindas kind as any real mother could to her subsequently sent means from utah to liverpool to pay for her emigration if she has not already chan geci her mind again and wished hersell in utah she pron prod ably soon will vill do llo so and we shall hhall not be surprised to learn of this poor vacillating ting piece of humanity petitioning ino ing again for help to come out here our attention has been called to this subject now by reading in a late number of Millennial the Milen nial atar istar the tile f following contradiction to the scandalous report and which coming as it does from the chief oil leers ot of the steamship upon which the company crossed the ocean ow ought lit to satisfy even the most prejudiced that the charges made against the elders were false S S An ARIZONA izoNA dec 0 1884 we hereby certify that the bbate ment recently published in the new york su h uy and extensively copied in english papers to in regard to an influence being exercise a by the mor lu mons onson on the steamship Ariz arezona arizona to take miss lavinia coop to utah aai a aal against g ai as t her will is false no violence nor show of violence was used by any mormon with miss coop or anyone eise cise |