| Show HOAXING THE PUBLIC THE boston herald publishes a communication from salt lake over a signature which only lacks the letter a to make it appropriate it is signed hox it is a pity that so respectable a journal aljournal as the herald published at the hub does not discern a hoax when it is as evident as in this instance the purpose of the article to is to make it appear that the mormons cormons Mor mons are dodging the question of polygamy but in order to do this the he writer not only has to dodge the facts but to repeat old stories that are positively untrue one of these is stated thus and in the past before the issuing of the Mam manifesto festo there were numerous oases moo where women on the witness stand swore that they did not know who was the father of their children in order to screen the accused the reputed father and that when not one person in the court room had the least doubt but what the accused was the father and in the community from whence they came everybody so understood it either hox 1 has been hoaxed or he be she or it is trying to hoax the boston public there is this much truth about the story on one occasion and one only a woman placed on the witness stand for the purpose of extorting from her evidence to send to the penitentiary the man alleged to be her husband sought to screen him by evading questions of a very personal character and being baited and badgered by the attorney and pinned down to an inquiry as to the paternity of her child she answered petulantly ul 1 I dont know this occurred several years ago and persons who like hox 11 want to malign the themos th acmor eMoi mon people have since taken advantage of this circumstance circum circumstance and exaggerated ag it achas been done in this instance the purpose in view of such persons is to make it appear that the mor gufor mons mono are an untruthful and insincere people and that their agreements are not to be relied upon and yet in business matters their word if is considered as good as their bond and their sincerity has become almost proverbial in the same spirit as that in which this story Is told hox how gives a garbled of the testimony of the mormon leaders before the mast master r in chancery T the h e bo boston ston R herald er alchas has given place to these perversions but would be doing more service to the reading public by obtaining the facts from proper sources or securing a more reliable correspondent we are in reasonable hope that before very long reputable Jour journals bals will repudiate these hoaxes on mormon mona 1 matters and that the fashion will so change that facts will take the place of falsehoods and the simple truth be found more desirable than such distorted statements as ag the ex agge rations of II I 11 I |
