Show MENDACITY EXPOSED my attention was recently drawn to the following clipping which an appeared in last sundays sunday issue of an n anti Mor mormon mow paper published in your city and which so far as it makes mention of the writer is utterly false and also in much of that about the bishop here is the precious letter from the holden holdau X mormon harvesting THE editor tribune marshal dyers deputies are still prosecuting the good god work recently begun at millard at holden the good saints the saintly law deflers turned in and hid the and successfully covered up their retreat however subpoenas were served on a few at deseret the deputies gathered in josiah F gibbs a cocab and bishop joseph black black hid bid in a lucern patch and after an hours tramping all around deputy morrell offered to bet that he black was in the patch and that he morrell would get a mowing machine and mow him out the bishop raised up and morrill nabbed him black is is a hard man truly the harvest is great but the laborers are few pray ye therefore the united states marshal to send laborers unto the harvest X holden june I I 1 have a few friends in utah whose only mental misfortune so far as I 1 know is faith in the salt lake tribune and in order to relieve them of the distrust they will doubtless feel over my arrest permit me to tell them through the NEWS that ive ave not been harvested the only foundation for the yarn yam and which will serve to illustrate the re of the correspondent is this deputy mount called and asked in a courteous manner Is mr gibbs at home taking a proffered seat he spoke of the recent hard storm f etc he gave no reason tor for my being wanted perhaps as a grand juryman but in a gentlemanly manner bid day and was gone thus furnishing a strange contrast between a gentleman and the holden vender of concentrated lie whom if intention serves me is a victim of unappreciated mormon ability popularly known as old nick and who in his has exhibited a strange desire for the alleged gathering my memory goes back some 17 or 18 18 years to a ride with X from holden H 0 iden to fillmore FiU more he was then a mormon but as full of bigotry and intolerance gaward the gen tiles as he is now full of gall and I 1 bitterness toward the mormons cormons Mor mons 11 during the ride the subject of po polygamy came up and he be expressed his sorrow borrow that he had not availed himself of an opportunity several years before of going into it his present and frequent overflows over flows of bile indicate that had bad be done so there would have been bome tall premising ere this of such are an many of those that gloat over the present crusade and to whom the sight of weeping wives and children is as rum to the drunkard the individual no matter what his belief that could exhibit such devilish glee over the se severing vernin of the hollest ties over the w wrecked households of those whom he was wont to greet as brothers 11 must possess a soul so shriveled and dead to sympathy as to be beneath the contempt of au all honorable people respectfully yours JOSIAH F GIBES deseret july 1889 |