Show Ie CHRISTIAN ISTIAN INDUSTRIAL HOME HOMEC FALSEHOODS r The The so-called so Industrial Christ Christ- t l Rome Home Association of this city x Issued ed its annual report There be no need to give it special but for its untruthful attacks ap the church and people from Mooch gH it expects expect to draw persons person onto on p to bestow its doubtful charity j i i l The e report commences with witha with a aA r- r account nt of the inception and j Tess of the association with the 1 A t statement that it was approved 1 1 the Mormon authorities and andr the tile law of Congress Ass raw funds for its support s 1 follows an account of the J colt of the buildings The main completed y last may cost 26 11 I 4 W f The be two wings are contracted ar and nd will cost coat This will will will-jb ln in n total within the sum aum of 50 fj- fj j lOft appropriated by Congress for thea the Of the appropriated r a furnishing the building 2000 yi JIl i ion ren expended leaving a balof bal- bal y of 2000 to furnish the wings J D- Dais ais t 19 is not considered enough if 1 appeal peal is made for a further C ional appropriation of 10 regular guJar current expenses and z flee eo foot t of for deficiencies that k fe a total l of for expense act ac- ac W tt t Quite a snug little sum sumI sumIn f n footed up with the amounts f sucked out of the national i usury ry i t Now How what is to show for this ex- ex y ex-y of public fun funds e A build- build which will probably come into Mir for some public purpose at a aY a- a Y IC 6 date Perhaps the State of s may he be able to purchase ite it e Government for some kind f I of an asylum Or the United States may turn it into a government building when the State comes cornea into the Union It is not at all aJl likely that it willever will ever be of extensive ve ser ser- service service service vice for the purpose put forth when the money was obtained for its erection erection erection tion The grand object said to be in view was that of extinguishing polygamy This was to be effected by offering an asylum to depend ant ent women who renounce nce poly polygamy amy and the children of such women of tender age This was enlarged so flO as to cover the ground of First or legal wives Women and girls with polygamous sur sur- surI surroundings surroundings I in danger of being coerced co- co coerced co coerced into polygamy Girls of polygamous par parents anxious toes toes- to es- es escape es escape cape from polygamous surroundings Women and girls who have been elsewhere and remove ve into the Territory in ignorance of the existence there of polygamy The extinguishment of polygamy polygamy polygamy amy was not likely tube t Joe very much promoted by such means It Itis Itis Itis is not likely that those who schemed for this Congressional appropriation of public funds had any idea that it would But let us see how many of all the classes named above put together have been enticed into the Industrial Home The largest number reported in any month is sixteen of whom twelve were males and four were females Is not this a tremendous effort and a wonderful suc suc- success success success cess in the direction sought It is supposable that these i males are ch children of tender I age because the object of the Home is not to make a place of re- re refuge refuge re refuge fuge for male polygamists what what- whatever whatever whatever ever their desires may be Or does the number include the males who happened to be working on the premises premises pre- pre mit It appears that no pains have been spared to drum up recruits and induce women and girls to come into the Industrial Home The re- re report report port re port says this has been done by continuous appeals by advertise advertise- advertisements advertisements advertisements ments through the pu public bUc press and by frequent earnest appeals and endorsement in the editorial columns And further in April 1889 a printed ap- ap appeal ap appeal p- p peal was issued to women women who feel themselves wronged and op- op oppressed oppressed op oppressed pressed by polygamy setting forth all the inducements that could be offered to prevail upon th them m to come into the Home and offering them free transportation But the women who feel them them- t themselves themselves selves wronged and desire the q pity and charity of the femal females S who run the establishment establishment establishment do not se seem m to be con con- conspicuously conspicuously con conspicuously numerous The Mor mon mon flies do not flock into the parlors of the Christian Industrial Home What is the matter Why the pious people who have made a fail fail- failure failure fail failure ure of the concern attempt to cover their utter and complete defeat by l Christian defamation and bear hear bearing bearing 5 I ing false witness against their neigh neigh- neighbors neighbors bors They say sav The leaders of Mormonism forbid their people entrance to the home The complete and effective or- or organization organization or organization of Mormonism and the terrorism entail entailed upon indifference to its edicts stands ever foremost to 1 intimidate the helpless 1 There is more in the same spirit and tenor and political questions are lugged in with the usual Lib eral malevolence all tinged with the falsehood that permeates the assertions assertions as- as we have N Now ow it cannot be shown and is not attempted to be shown that in any instance the leaders of Mor monism have made an utterance on the subject The truth R Ris is they have paid no at- at at attention to it There has been no instance nce of terrorism of any kind a ato to prevent any individual from entering the Home It is stated that somebody who is not named I some offered offered some individual in the Home also unnamed to find provisions for her and her children in some of the Wards if she would leave the Home That is the only instance offered oft red of any Mormon effort whatever that can be construed as inimical to the establishment The DEsERET NEWS has taken occasion to ty criticise the methods of f the people who have deceived Con Con- Congress Congress gress grees and aud the country on this mat mat- matter matter matter ter and has exposed their wilful and x abominable falsehoods It will do us and the people of Utah no harm to build a hundred such Homes if Congress can be cajoled into appropriating the money to erect J I them True it it would be a fraud upon the Government because there is not an and never has been een any necessity for such places and we pointed out just what would be the result of this scheme at the begin beg beg- beginning ring ning It was founded in misrepresentation of the Mormon people th their ir doc doe doctrines t i trines and their practices The mo mo- money money ney secured secured- WAS obtained on false y k pretences The Christian woman who went wen before committees of ei- ei either either ei either ther House went there with lies in her mouth They were proven to be belies belies lies by unimpeachable affidavits from 1 E f fJ 5 7 i i public officers non Mormons in Inthis f this not Territory They were only direct falsehoods but they were indecent indecent in- in indecent decent prurient and inexcusable y fabrications designed to misrepresent pent sent and malign the Mormon people and excite the indignation S r on one hand and sympathy on theother the other of the Congressmen who were told these infamous untruths To ca call such a concern Christian is a libel on the Savior a burlesque ue on Christianity If this can be construed into opposition to the Home the supporters of the concern are welcome to its I use But let them th m understand that nobody is responsible for these re- re reo re remarks remarks o marks but the writer The Mormon Church has bas not made madean madean madean an utterance opposing the Home ti I The Mormon authorities have never lifted a finger against it V a Nobody has been hindered from go- go going going go going ing into it With all that we have said in criticism of the ut- ut uttered uttered ut uttered by its promoters we have said and done nothing against the Home F It is a failure for the reasons we gave at the first The supposition that women generally are oppressed R in Utah and are desirous of escape which maybe may be entertained by good t people at a distance is an egregious error People living Jiving here who have fostered this enterprise know better It was projected and worked for as part of the political in hostility to the Mormons and some benevolent and a philanthropic itt its people were deceived into helping g it t s along for motives worthy to their F hearts if they were de deceived in their t k heads But the whole thing except the building is a complete fizzle and in the nature of things cannot be anything else If Congress wants wanta to waste the public moneys by further diversions in this direction nobody here will cry out with anguish But we wet t think it a duty of those who know the facts to call can the attention of 0 our national legislators to them and then if they wish to squander the funds of the pf nation natio to further the ends of a few schemers in Utah we 1 will have have nothing further to say any 6 on n that question But we do not pro pro- propose propose propose when pose to remain silent when false false- falsehoods falsehoods falsehoods hoods like Uke those to which we have hav byK referred are gravely published by b K I people professing to further the in- in interests interests morality and in aid of a so- so called so-called called Christian charitable institution institution institution |