| Show A PLEA FOR TRUTH AND FAIR DEALING THE following article appeared in the oad ia union liberal and non Mor naon under the head of work for utah the lies and misrepresentations with which the people abroad are being regaled concerning the moral social and political condition of affairs in this territory are calculated to work an injury which can hardly be measured A duty dua which devolves upon every patriotic citizen of utah no matter what may be his political ORL or religious belief whether he atea affiliates 6 with an any party t y or 9 sect or stan stands ds aloof rr from am apar all 1 of them is to labor to the end that the territory of his hia birth or adoption shall have a fair chance with its neighbors in the struggle for a place lace at the head of the most enlightened of them all no honest well meaning citizen can look with aught but disfavor upon the evident purpose of a coterie of malcontents not to use a harsher term to give to the outside world an erro leous impression of the existing situation and of the bright promise for the future which all of us here in utah can see if we are so disposed none are so blind as those who will not see but comparatively speaking the class of the people in utah butali who are blind from choice e is gradually but surely growing smaller while the ranks of the patriots are being increased as an the days paw pass by friends and citizens of utah ye fathers and mothers business and professional p men P 9 agriculturists a I 1 jurists turis ts 0 rolista ardiste you of every callin calling and condition in life who know w what t utah is and realize what great possibilities are in store for her if the new era of progress which has dawned shall not be checked you cannot afford to remain passive while the territory and her people are being slandered villi fled and ana misrepresented re ab abroad road by hired lecturers and mountebanks mount ebanks we have in our mind at this writing the of one cook joseph cook with the prefix Reverend who not long ago passed through salt lake city and while there consented to deliver a lecture upon the subject of the political con of this territory now this man cook may be an eloquent speak er but if his lectures upon other subjects are as thin and devoid of truth as an the one above mentioned we can safely say aay that they are unreliable and strike a direct blow at the best interests of utah perhaps mr cook does not consider truth a necessary element in the writing of an interesting in g lecture or may be that in the case of his lecture upon the conditions obtaining in this territory he wame wag willing to lie for a consideration but whatever his reason may have been been the fact is patent to all that he wilfully lied if the interviewer in chicago reported him correctly as saying that polygamy flourishes just as much as ever 0 0 0 that it will take more radical measures to stamp out the cause 11 does anyone who is familiar with the past history of the territory believe this every man of sense ense know it is an absolute falsehood and and that those newspapers and andy ople who permit such reports to be circulated without protest are the worst enemies that utah has just look at it if poly polygamy gainy flourishes here as it did a few few years ago there would be almost a reign of terror as at that time there would be unrest a feeling of insecurity capital would be timid and its possessors would hesitate about embarking in business bitterness of feeling would crop out every hour of the day and neighbors and citizens would continually have their hands bands raised against each other but is that the present condition we ask all candid fair minded men we answer no hose those khints things exist only in the imaginations of t the e little class of malcontents who furnished cook with the material for his slanderous and untruthful lecture such falsehoods e keep a great many good people and millions of money from coming to utah for inasmuch as the heads beads of american families and the men with capital desire to live in peace in communities muni ties where harmony prevails among the people where the people are thrifty and industrious and all unite in building instead of pulling down the fabric of civil government in other words desirable immigrant always seek for a country such as utah really is but never come to such a country as cook and other slander ers represent utah to be |
