| Show A CLUMSY SLANDER THERE is if on the staff of the chief anti mornion mormon organ of this city one of the most asinine falsifiers that ever dipped a pen in concentrated lye he prefaces his reports of alleged facts with slanderous flings at the latter day saints and gives them the flattest possible contradictions in the course ot of the subsequent narratives an instance in point is the case of alexander brown of af the ward whose case is before the commissioners court under examination the first flost charge against him was unlawful cohabitation it appeared from the evidence that the defendant had but one wife and another complaint was introduced Introduce dl ebar charging ging adultery the organ of defamation fa mation in its issue of this morning speaks of mrs brown as the first wife and having havin me usual careworn and dist distressed appearance of women occupying that position 0 s itsou this insinuation is false and an d vi vile 1 e in general terms germs and the sta statement te given in the same paper of the proceedings of the case cas e exhibits the tact that it is in this instance a ridiculous falsification the evidence showing mrs brown to be the only wife of the defendant another clumsy slander is that brown is a good latter day saint in the same article quoting the sheets own words the foi following lowing oc culs cuis mrs brown was recalled by the defense f ense and testified that she had given evidence against the defendant in it the bishops court no questions upon the most delicate points were asked there this means that some time igo ago brown was tried before an ecclesiastical court of the church of which lie he was a member the bishops court of tue ibah ward of this city the charge was based on the conduct now being adduced against him in evidence in tb the course oi of his examination before the commissioner it was for immoral conduct and improper treatment of his wile wife the result of the trial was the extreme penalty by which the church shows that athas no use for characters against whom such charges are sustained by proper evidence excommunication it appears that in the bishops court indelicate questions calculated to elicit the more disgusting details of the case were not propounded this is proper it is the aim of the church in all such cases in its courts to avoid unsavory details in any cases of immorality mm brought before them the abject is simply to make isake the guilt or innocence of the parties accused sufficiently clear to warrant an action the action of the ecclesiastical court expresses the sentiment of the hurch church in relation to impure conduct in general the efforts of the scandalous salt lake tribune to the contrary cont iary notwithstanding that infamous sheet in the same article in which it designated mrs brown blown as a careworn and neglected first wife proved its own falsity oy by showing in the report of the evid evidence tuce that brown is a monogamist also that its assertion to the effect that the same saine is a good latter day saint is equally untrue he having baying been genered from the church because it appeared to one of its local courts that he nad had been acting after the manner of many rion non 1 mormons cormons Mor mons casting his wife adrift and consorti consorting og immorally with another woman woma because mormons cormons Mor mons have ref refused ed to turn their wives away they have been herded into the penitentiary by scores lu in the anti mormon official career of mr W H dickson lately united states district attorney for utah he enunciated in the conduct of a cohabitation case one particularly clean cut fat that the the sexual relations of the mul Mo mons imons were confined within the marriage opposed to immoral practices yet flen aih attempts are made to have it appear that they look upon sexual immorality ty with complacency while the fact is patent that no one can remain in fellowship within the ranks of the community whose guilt in that regard is made clear the scribblers scribble rs who defame the character of the people are familiar with this truth but they will make any sac rafice of fact or principle for the sake of outside anti mormon effect |
