Show MORE PROOFS POSITIVE several gentlemen of different fait t and parties have called at this boffl and expressed their indignation at tl deliberate falsehoods of the ahe salt lal la tribune in its issue of monday last as desired something said in the D NEWS in relation to it we prefer e e r let oth others ere speak the following I 1 let lette B t have been sent to us with the e q u that they appear in this paper as s t th h e were sent to the tribune and d we e treated with worse than contempt P editor deseret news newa the subjoined sub joined was sent to the dal dai a 1 tribune last monday the only V noti ot taken of it was an emphatic reassert artio io by the tribune of the original tu W H SHEARMAN 4 SALT LAW LAKE CITY UTAH june 29 1 editor daily tribune dear sir in the report of the tabt tabor nacle sunday serT services ices published in yo vo ur issue of this morning under the heid head or elder penrose on polygamy you att that nis his talk was as open a plea f flot polygamy as he dare make it I 1 happened to be present and heard the t entire discourse not a word was wall sa bout about polygamy directly or indar indirect not a word that could by the gr great stretch of the imagination be made refer to polygamy lygan any more than had yeoman glat been a roman catholic holic or epise episcopal minister urging his bis fellow bellel believers 0 marry only within the pale of their 0 church and according to its ritual ai ceremonies res respectfully aw W H SHEARMAN here is another from a catho c gentile le treated I 1 in n the same mainc ma n n SALT LAKE CITY june 29 1891 editor salt lake tribune in glancing over this mornin mornings gig issi iss of your paper I 1 noticed a brief report the proceedings at the mormon ta tabt nacle yesterday in that report the ge aleman who delivered the sermon is rep re resented as making a plea for poly now I 1 am not a mormon nor am I 1 i iw forested rested te on either side except as I 1 a am prompted mp d by a spirit of fairplay and of justice ustice to my fel I 1 listened attentively to tent to that sermon and I 1 I 1 must say that I 1 could not directly or indirectly infer that it touched on polygamy even in the remotest manner I 1 might add that I 1 paid special attention to that part of the discourse touching on marriage I 1 have been educated in the roman catholic religion in that church marriage is regarded as a saor sacrament ardent and the alliances contracted by persons not baptized in that faith are regarded by roman pries tsin a measure as criminal the discourse of last sunday sunday dwelt on the sacredness of marriage and of its institution as an ordinance in the mormon church and of its perpetuation in 0 eternity marriage among the sectarians sect arians was at simply ply a contract for life and in many instances no jaces not lasting even until death there were fully 1000 strangers in salt lake city cita yesterday one half of whom visited the tabernacle Taber tabernacle nacie and heard the discourse referred to I 1 am sure that not one of these went away with the belief that he or she had heard a se sermon rmon preached in support of polygamy FAIR PLAY and the following is one more also from a non mormon SALT LAKE crry CITY UTAH june 0 7 0 goodwin esq eq editor salt lake tribune dear sir in the tribune of this morning appears what purports to be a synopsis of the remarks made by mr C W penrose at yesterdays tabernacle services your report concludes thus the me address was as open ans a plea lea for or polygamy as he dare make it and at the dose close he was congratulated by members of the priesthood who were on the stand asa As a gentile I 1 cannot refrain from expressing my astonishment at such a statement throughout the entire discourse not a word was said which by the wildest stretch of the imagination could have been interpreted as it has been by the tribune reporter the only reference being as to mar marriage in the mormon church for time barriale riale an and eternity which is very different from an advocacy of polygamy I 1 myself took a verbatim shorthand note of the sermon and am therefore well able to give this denial my only reason for thus writing you is a love of fairplay for all religious sects I 1 lam am dear sir air yours faithfully A G BENNETT A non mormon |