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Show TRUTH. 8 TRUTH Issued Weekly by TRVTH PUBLISHING COMPANY, Western Newspaper Union UuiidlDg, 241 So Temple St., Suit Lake City. I country members were unwilling that Salt Lake should have so much of its own money spent here at home. If the guardsmen ever want an armory here, let the sponsor for the hills aDDroDriating the coin therefor in-We- st elude $5,000 for Logan, Richfield, OgJOHN W. HUGHES, Editor and Manager den, Manti and other towns where some of the skeleton companies are Then the members repreEntered at the postoffloe at Salt Lake City. located. for transmission through the mails as Utah, second-clas- s senting those districts will just natmatter. urally fall over one another in the TERMS OF SU INSCRIPTION: scramble to vote "aye. One Year (In advance) Six Months 92.00 l.oo Thursday dispatches tell us about a white woman being found dead in Postmasters sendirg subscriptions to Truth a negro dive in New York. Well, what may retain 25 per cunt of subscription price as commission. is there wrong about that? It was If the paper is not deRired beyond the date the right condition for a white wosubscribed for the publication should be notified by letter two weeks or more before man in a negro dive to be found. The the term expires. eternal fitness of things always manDISCONTINUANCES. ifests itself. Three Months 75 Remember that the publisher must be notified by letter when a subscriber wishes his paper stopped; all arrears must be paid In full. Requests of subscribers to have their paper mailed to a n sw address, to secure attention, must mentio i former as well os present ad- Another of the polygamy sensations dress. that Judge Tanner was one of the which has been aduced to prove that most married men even in and he is a Utah, that he had contracted all of his many alleged polygamous matrimonial alliances within the past two years. It was gravely asserted and is still asserted that the judge had married three wives in Salt Lake in addition to his legal wife, that he had two wives at Kaysville, one in Spanish Fork, one at Springville and a few down in Mexico, and babies galore and. Tanner grew to be the gayest Lothairlo in the west. The most persistent, and best defined instances cited were those with which the names of two highly respectable young ladies, both well known in Salt ' Lake, were connected. As to those two women being in polygamous relations with the judge it had become very generally accepted as a settled fact. The sensation was precipitated and found its way into the newspapers from the fact that Mr. Samuel Russell, a young Mormon, in effect charged Mr. Tanner with having more wives than the law allows. The ; with which this community is so freAddress all communications to Truth Pub- quently annoyed and scandalized lishing Com pan v. Salt Lake City. Utah. was spring this week. Judge H. S. direct accusation against Tanner beAS this paper outlined in its last I Tanner if we may be Pardoned for ing in line with the very persistent reference, was the hero of it. rumors alluded to above are very issue, the Industrial School matter was wasnt so much of a sensation generally believed and Mr. Tanners nothing but a tempest in a teapot. The e utterances since, as reported in the showed no instances of er or nearly everybody who is matters knew of the Salt Lake Tribune, were not of such cruelty, and from the state-- e8e in such ments of the inmates of the Institution, rumors which have been in perslst-signe-d direct and unequivocal nature as to growing- circulation since carry conviction of his innocence. In to a document, it appears that en an as. reported, have they do have no fault to find with the shortly before the last city election fact his interviews, in their teachers and the management, but that regarding Judge Tanners marital y done more to confirm people his guilt that do condemn the legislature for istions. The stories grew and grew preconceived opinion of an- any direct accusation which has been hampering the school by being nig- as they were passed from one to him or any evidence gardly in its appropriations for its sup other until very many people believed made against port. The papers which had the spasm of indignation over the treatment of "the unfortunates at the school are sick unto death because of the failure to prove their unfounded charges, and a lot of gushing ladies are really because some pupil, or Inmate, was not found with welts across his or her back, preferably her, so they could say "shocking or something of We are Will be in order very soon. that sort. The public generally seems to have forgotten that some of the very to assist you with a . ready worst juvenile characters are inmates fine line of of that school. That a half dozen of the worst nymphomaniacs that ever walked the streets have been sent there from this city alone; that some of the toughest boys who ever infested any mans country are there for redemption. Those are not the kind of people the teachers should be required to tuck into bed of nights; to whom tea and toast should be taken in the morning before they get up. Of course kindness goes a long way in the reclamation of the erring, while with the naturally vicious it has no effect whatand a thousand and one articles that ever, but there isnt a man or woman the housekeeper will be enquiring past 45 in this city of Salt Lake who attended the public schools in their for. We also have a competent staff infancy who has not seen worse punof house decorators who are prepared ishment inflicted in those schools than Reform the was even charged at to do your interior decorating in the school. It was an attempt at the cre' ation of a sensation which failed enEstimates furnished. latest styles failed. have tirely, as it should I eith-investigati- on inter-extrem- - re-the- I . disap-point- ed House Gleaning t - Wall Paper, Window Shades, Curtains, Draperies X o As might have been expected, the appropriation of $30,000 for an armory for the National Guard of Utah, to be located in this city, was cut out of the general appropriation bill. The H. Dinwoodey Furniture Co. polygamist. In fact there has been no evidence at all except mere rumor much of which is admitted to be untrue. For a week Judge Tanner has been subjected to unlimited e and those bitterest in their denunciation are Mormons who believe that he is guilty and who in the strongest terms blame him for bring, ing them and the church to which they belong into contempt and exceedingly bad odor by placing them In the light of breaking the solemn pledges given to the United States government that polygamy would be absolutely, completely and forever abandoned as an institution in Utah. If the charges are true Tanner it all and a good deal more. If they are not true he is deserving of much sympathy. He and the church of which he is a member owe it to themselves and to the people of this state, and the whole United States to demand a full and thorough investigation freed from all technicalities so that the Truth may be known. The cen-sur- de-serv- es church authorities, through their official organ, the Deseret News, in referring to this case says officially and most emphatically that they know nothing of any such marriages as are charged to Tanner, that none of the authorities, has performed or authorized any plural marriage with Tanner as a principal and that no such marriages are performed by their consent or permission and that if any persons have violated the law against polygamy they have done so at their peril and must take the consequences. That in a measure puts it up to Tanner. With him it rests to clear himself and the ladies whose names have been coupled with his in the newspapers. It does seem, However, that the church authorities should as far as they possibly can urge and insist on a full and thorough investigation, of this case. Apostle John Henry Smith said in discussing the present case that he is , ready to cut any man off the church who will perform a polygamous marriage ceremony. Thats the right kind of talk, now let it be carried into practice if there is occasion. Tanner is so very generally believed to be guilty and the crowd are so vehement in their denunciations that it requires some little courage to even express a doubt regarding it not to say anything of asserting a conviction that he is innocent. It would not however, be out of place to sift the evidence on which the crowd has convicted him. We dont mean after the strict rules which would be applied to evidence in court hut in an open and broad manner without technicalities and with the sole view of arriving at the facts. First. Tanner denies it.. He might he expected to do that. Most men would lie like a gentleman to keep the name of a woman they thought something of out of the mire. His denial goes for very little. His closest and most intimate friends declare he is not guilty. He may have deceived them, but it is very improbable that he could do that. They are too wll acquainted with his daily life to make that at all probable. Russell, so far as known, is his only accuser. All he urges in support of his charges are that he has seen Tanner and the young woman in question talking very confidentially in the street, that Tanner danced with her at a ball, that he saw her, one day go into Tanners house and saw her come out the next day, his presumption being that she passed the night there. |