| Show falsehoods DENOUNCED D PROVO july 10 1885 1883 editor deseret ies Jes eret eyet please permit me through throng h the columns of me to make a few corrections ions la iii relation to au an interview had bad with various newspaper reporters between new york and salt lake part ol of which was reported in your issue of the ad dinst mr gibson agent of the gulon guion S S co introduced me to a reporter of the new york sun who desired to get a few facts concerning our number voyage and destination which I 1 gave ave him as it should have been p printed r anted and not as it subsequently did appear in that paper I 1 told him I 1 thought the entire entill immigration for the season from europe would amount to about 1200 souls instead of the september company numbering that many I 1 never mentioned posen or being imprisoned there for two months but that 1 had traveled and was imprisoned in in hi prussia f for or nearly one month in chicago and omaha I 1 was again interviewed and the same incongruities appear in their respective papers which statements are telegraphed over the country and as is generally general lythe the rule every editor seems to find it necessary to add a little more untruth and slang about the mormons cormons Mor mons the tribune of july oth took especial pains to collect all these misrepresentations and set them forth together with a bitter condemnation condemi lation of the conversion to the mormon faith and emigrating of these poor but honest souls to utah it seems apparent that some of the ivl ivi wielders elders eiders of the pen have forgotten the pit from whence they were re du dug alid add believe not in the right of anybody making attempts to better their condition but themselves W C 6 A smoot JR |
