Show FORGING HISTORY editor dewet iveas july 27 the cornerstone corner stone atone of an auti mormon church was laid down in this city addresses were made by 0 J hollister Holli ater and T C iliff these men have both been in utah for years they have both been rabid anti mor mons mono they are both unreliable as historians hollister Holli ater says the buchanan bucganan Buc banan army of 1857 was sent to utah to install the new governor fifo vernor and other federal officers the records show that that army was sent to utah to put down a rebellion that was the statement made by the president to the commander i io v chief of the army and by him repeated to the commander of the forces sent to utah the fact is however that there was no more rebellion in utah then than there is today adventurers and federal officers who could not obtain con arol of mormon women or use mormon men to fill their own purses wilfully and maliciously lied to buchanan until they made him believe that the mor mons mono were in rebellion against the government there was no rebellion and that tact fact was brigham excuse for keeping the approaching army out of the territory until the president should send men to see what the real situation was it took them about two days to see that the mor mons had been clearly in the right and when the army came into the valley as it did a few weeks later it came on terms proposed by brigham and accepted by Bucha buchanann nans special ambassadors bass adors had the mormons cormons been in rebellion nothing of the kind could have occurred because one of mr buchanann Bucha nans commissioners was so BO prejudiced against the mormons cormons that he expressed himself to the effect that he would like to see them put to the sword and yet they were so clearly right that he had to consent to giving them their own terms in an honorable peace hollister alluding to the coming of the california volunteers in 1862 says government at washington thought best beet to station troops here he conveys the idea that the troops were stationed here because there was danger of a morman uprising against the government ern ment the antl intimation mation has no basis in fact if I 1 were to say that government sent the california volunteers here because it was afraid to trust them at the front so full of the spirit of rebellion was california I 1 would in all probability rob ability be nearer the truth than W ollister hollister is in his insinuation in 1862 the mormons cormons were just beginning to recover from the terrible scourge that had been upon them from the summer of 1854 first grasshoppers and then what was worse than grass hoppers the malice of lying bigots and adventurers who succeeded in getting an army sent out against them one of the best federal officers ever sent tu to utah was governor cumming and the mormon utah militia kept him snowed in at camp scott living on mule meat without salt sail for months he no DO sooner saw the mormon people and the real condition of affairs than he sent word to the commander of that army that there was no rebellion hollister is now as he be has been for twenty dearsan years an unreliable writer on all matters touching the mormon people again hollister is withholding something when he gives the origin of the chu church ach that laid the cornerstone on the oc cassion aion named above the young mens literary association was a company of infidels in deuce dence hall did not as a matter of fact belong to any church in the outset etwas it was to be an hall in which any and everybody who wanted to speak should have a hearing a lot of men who called themselves freethinkers should deed their property as a gift to a church that has beks been working ever since in conjunction junction coD with all other churches of its kind on the continent to obtain control of the government and banish freethinkers from the country only proves how little think there was among the frees and is evidence that as a matter of fact they were only adventurers who would serve any power that would gratify their wishes the freethinkers of aoh are undoubtedly the most idiotic freaks in the country in playing into the hands of the miral liberal party they are simply helping to put into the control of the U united di ted states government a combined priesthood that has declared that no In infidel fidelI or atheist should be tolerated on christian 21 As to iliff I 1 want to call attention to what I 1 believe to be fraudulent statistics he says the congregational church has had children in its schools in this territory three fourths of them being of mormon parentage the episcopal church he says has baa had children in its schools three fourths of them of mormon parentage the methodist church he says has educated children two thirds of them mormon parentage f he is particular to say that in the methodist schools the children have been educated while at the others the children have only attended at the presbyterian schools hesayo he says have attended two thirds of them of mormon parentage swedish lutheran 1000 two thirds mormon parentage baptist 1000 two thirds mormon parentage jews and catholic not in it now I 1 deny the statement made by mr iliff that two thirds and three fourths of all these children were of mormon parentage and ask for proof I 1 also ask for proof of the numbers of children accredited to these various schools since it is all used in evidence against the mormons cormons Mor mons it is fair to make this demand not because the writer 0 this is a mormon but because he wants fair play for all sects next I 1 want to call attention to mr cliffs figures on church property in 1864 1 says hollister there was no anti mor mormon mon church or school in utah today says iliff the congregational church owns property in utah worth and spends annually the protestant episcopal church annually anBu ally the methodist annually the presbyterian annually swedish lutheran annually baptist annually abis this makes a total of church property among the anti mor mon churches exclusive of the catholics lieland and jews of the annual nun expenses of these churches and schools is given as I 1 believe mr cliffs well known modesty has led him to understate this property valuation I 1 believe the methodist church in utah would not ake less than for its church property the catholic church owns own a utah property worth the episcopal church owns property worth 1 in utah altogether the anti mormon churches own church property i I 1 i utah worth not less than the law against the holding of church property in the territories over a valuation of includes all churches church ep and yet while the united states government led on and W backed ked by all anti mormon priests and all officeholders in utah has robbed the mormon church of property worth not ono on word has been said not one effort has been made to take a dollar from any of these other churches yet as a matter of fact all or cally ajl au of this anti mormon drw property properly has been acau accumulated I 1 oy malicious misrepresents misrepresent a on of f mormon people I 1 mr iliff was kind enough to 46 say that theologies like alowa are to be measured by their value 1 had supposed that the theology of tbt th evangelical churches was without money and without price hut but mr IMM must know he says if the theolo theodo gies make narrow bigoted souls they are bad if on the othow othera hand they make large generous pun pan souls souls that dont slander alande aay chuich that makes such charac character ers it gods elect I 1 really believe M iliff is facetious if his own for instance were tried by this rubw ruick would have to be put down dowa as febra bad for of all churches on the earan the most moot meddlesome mean and slandering is the methodist the other hand the church most completely minds mind its business on earth indulges least leahti slander and most thoroughly gi every man and women woman a R chance is isten mormon church that church all other churches in utah worked so hard to rob and destroy W their own aggrandizement As to character what morino fud was ever pilloried as was t the a aln methodist priest who figured in n sail lake dr iliff lovingly refers to 0 bill as the rev 0 M pierce if afu people of today want to know aoa thing of the evangel wh who 0 s starell methodism in utah and prepared a 94 r snap for mr iliff II 11 iff let them read herald of nov 7 1883 same pa nov 8 and 15 tribune nov 24 2411 1 and nov 7 1883 nov 7 1883 and nov 10 1883 1888 to stand up in salt lake as the fefel re tentative senta tive of the anti churches of utah and talk about theology that has not made carl christil ity a stink in the nostrils of all minded men and women is to A about mormonism only M mr r I 1 ij cannot do it mr cannot it mr thrall cannot do III it 1 catholic church is the only non mon church in utah that has bootin near manifesting mani festine a I 1 christian spir fill towards the mormon people if hollister Holli ater iliff and those who bened to their misrepresentations at ekl laying of yon cornerstone were for torla hour imbued with that burning 60 tempt for shame and fraud and hate wrong that marked the young naza Na zaroHi as he stood above the faed of day they would put on seek sprinkle ashes on ther the r heads and C d b pardon of the mormon people agal agail whom they have labored and liel lot lol these many years CHARLES eidam |