Show HAT V IS PHILIP PHIIP N. N NELSONS NELSON'S BUSINESS All f over the tIle East news reports embodying embodying em em- bodying the substance of the tiie follow follow- lug ing ug have recently been printed Philip NJ NIN m Nelson lson Json a cli business sl man of Salt Sah Lake City Utah Is registered at athe atthe atthe the he Cochran Hotel Speaking of the Mormons Mr Ir Nel- Nel soIl son said that the first pr ot the tie Mormon church had recently through a communication of a semisecret semi semi- secret ecret nature promised the members Df f C the church that certain revelations and nd and principles that had been laid aside co for or a time v. v would could shortly be resumed Tills a added ded Mr Nelson el on Is construed con con- trued to mean a a. revival of polygamy mr The letter intimating the promise of the lie establishment re-establishment of or polygamy and anti the be threat to drive from the church the be tithe non e payers bears the signa signa- tures ures of oC Joseph F. F Smith president of the he Mormon church and Anthon H. H Lund an and l John R. R Winder his coun- coun elors Man Many Mormons declare it is the themos mos most significant statement ever issued by the president ent of their church Rumors have been rife Tife Jn in In Salt Lake ake City for three thre months mouths that that orders orders have lave been een issued d by the presidency of the he church that the younger element among the Mormons who h ai are drawing mm away be whipped into line The promise ma made e however that those principles of th the faith of the church which the church has hag been forced to toay tola tolay la lay ay aside for a time are to be resumed resumed resumed re re- In a very short time has nonplussed nonplussed nonplussed non non- the great major majority t of Mormons Mor Mor- mons moos who have received the news Yer Very likely it would be Interesting to know what hat is Philip l N N. Nelsons Nelson's business here in Salt Lake He seems t to have b been n traveling in a a. good class down Ea East t and to have used the state- state ment that ls he-ls business business businessman man man manas as a a credential reden al The directory He Ue In the tho tele telephone phone e b book ok Well known n residents who ho l have ave been here for years are unaware una- una w ware O of Of- th the benefits ro conferred on the b tile the existence h i of or Philip N N. Nel Ne- son Maybe he has misled the effete East s But vb whether ther or f hot 1 t he lie lives 11 here I whether eU er- er erf or f not he Is a business I man Jan manof of oI this city lt he is a n very erp bad I e He has lias add added d to the sum sum of misinformation at the East He has told things which he had no no right to tell leU because they aro are not foun founded ed on fact act We Ye dont don't accuse him of 1 19 but we weldo wedo do accuse him of repeating Js th the Tribune lies And that Is worse The communication of which which h he hes he lie s speaks aka was wae not at all aU of ot a secret or semi secret nature It was a letter read Tead p publicly in every Mormon church and it dl didn't nt contain any sta statement ment o on which the tha b belief lIef was founded that the tho Mormons were going back pack to poly poly- gamy The Tribune did publish a sensational sen article declaring on the word of of an unknown loving gossip-loving woman that such a letter was read lead at a country country country coun coun- try meeting house of the Mormons Obscurity covered the whole of or the statement and out of that obscurity obscurity- purposely created and intensified by bythe bythe bythe the Tribune came came th the Tribunes Tribune's own interpretation Of pt course that Inter was I uI e to the state of or Utah Untruth was at the bottom of the original statement and Injury followed Is repetition every where Any business man in Salt Lake knows s such a n statement as this originated origin origin- ate by r the Tribune and repeated by Philip N. N Nelson lelson hurts Utah hurts hurLs Salt Lake Lake and and Is not true We Ve un understand the Tribunes Tribune's motive It Is 18 trying to frighten Utah Ulab into again enthroning Tom Kearns and Is threatening to butcher the state with slander er until that is achieved But what can It profit a n. business man to defame his hia own city |