| Show A FALSEHOOD REVIVED THE san francisco chronicle is a live paper for news but it is very rabid and unreliable on the imor mormon question it is a sort of echo of a much meaner paper nearer home it will aid in the spread of any scandal however false and ri trenches on mormon ground here is an editorial paragraph from its columns that shows how it will copy and endorse foolish and groundless anti mormon sto storied rieb A party of mormon missionaries in illinois appears to be carrying on what they regard as a good work in that state this is nothing less than the breaking up of families and the enticing oi 01 young girls to follow them to utah it is notorious that even an institution so thoroughly exposed as the mormon church finds many converts if it sends out persuasive preachers and the worst feature of the success of the mormon elders is that they capture the very class that through ignorance and want of means is unable to get free when once brought under mormon control arol 5 the san francisco chronicle is not dot able to point to a single instance stanc of the enticing of young girls to utah by mormon missionaries sion aries nor indeed the enticing of anybody to follow them or accompany them to utah no missionaries are engaged in any such work either in illinois or elsewhere neither is a there any difficulty in getting away from utah when people wish to leave such stories as these are too stale for the times they smell of the moul diness of a quarter of a century ago or more before railroads crossed the continent and tourists visited and learned the truth about this defamed territory if the design of I 1 mormon missionary work was to entice people to come to utah all they would need as means for the purpose would be money to pay the passage of those who would flock to this city men and women could be gathered by the thousands from all parts of the world with very little enticing they could be had by hundreds from the city where the chronicle is published mormon 9 missionaries are not dot engaged in auy any such business they preach the gospel and sometimes aid in gather ing the saints who are anxious to join their co religionists and worship god in these mountains that is au all the chronicle may think it fun to publish such stories but they have led to murder and outrages of the blackest kind people are incited by them to dee is of violence and the blood of innocent men beepat t ars the skirts of li bellous journals that have invented and copied such foul falsehoods as that we have quoted and that blood will not out but will be a swift witness against the li bellers in the great day of account |
