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I ; TRUTH I TRUTH H Issued Weekly by H Truth Publishing Company, HI 32 Eagle Block, Salt Lake City, Utah. B John W. Hughes, Editor and Mangr. B Entered June 19, 1903, at Salt Lake H City, Utah, as second-class matter, H ;nder Act of Congress of Mar. 3, 1879 B Terms of Subscription: H Postmasters sending subscriptions B' to TRUTH may retain 25 per cent of H subscription price as commission. I If the paper is not desired beyond H the date subscribed for, the publics- H tion should be notified by letter two H weeks or more before term expires. B , Discontinuances. HI Remember that the publisher must Bj be notified by letter when a subscriber H wishes his paper stopped; all arrears Bj. must be paid in full. Hi Requests of subscriber to have H their paper mailed to a new address, H t0 secure attention, must mention for- H m,r a we" s Pre'ent address. H Address all communications to H TRUTH PUBLISHING COMPANY Hi Salt Lake City, Utah. H PEET'S LETTER. H Editor Truth: H In the Acts of the Apostles, Chap- H ter Si we find that the high priests of H the sect of the Sadducccs put Peter BJ and other apostles in prison and fur- H ther persecuted them. A Pharisee H named Gamaliel, a doctor of law, H stood up and said unto them: "And H now I say unto you refrain from these H men, and let them alone, for if this HJ council or this work be of men it will BJ come to naught: But if it be of God, BJ ye cannot overthrow it; lest haply BJ ye be found even to fight against H God." Christ said, "If the blind lead J the blind they will both fall into the J ditch." David said, "Except the Lord m built the house, they labour in vain H that build it; except the Lord keep BJ the city, the watchman wakcth but HJ in vain." M In my letters to Truth I have tried BJ to show the ministerial prevaricators HJ and Utah slanderers that if the Mor- HJ mons arc wrong, debased or low, Ha they will die a natural death; if they HJ arc right, all the Bishop Spaulding?, H Dr. Talbotts, Wesley Hills, Dr. M. H Hclmicks, S. E. Wishards, C. C. Hi Goodwins and C. M. Owens between HJ the zenith and the nadir cannot des- HJ troy them. The work of the Clirisi- HJ 'an missionaries in Utah has bean HJ worse than failure. In a few towns HJ in Utah like Richmond, Logan, Mt. BJ Pleasant, Salina, Springville and BJ Monroe they have succeeded in mak- HJ ing a few infidels out of weakkneed Hi Mormons and Dr. T. C. Iliff said in Hi his lecture in Wilkcsbarrc, Pcnn., in HJ October, 1906, that the Christian mis- BJ sions had spent over $4,000,000 in HJ Utah and wi'li this great expenditure HJ in money as well as time had made H, only a handful of converts. During H all the years the slanderous regime H of the Salt Lake Ministerial assort Hji tion the Episcopals as a rule, have H kept out. One exception to this H, Episcopal rule was Miss Sarah Nap- H per of Salt Lake, who wrote to the BJ Ep'scopal Magazine for December, tpofi, that ft Mormon mother told her she would not send her girls to tha Mormon Sunday school because they were taught polygamy. Please remember that Miss Napper advertised this great falsehood to the world just after her rector was found guilty of an unmentionable crime. What would Miss Napper and the Episcopals have thought if the Mor mons had advertised to the world that many Episcopals in Salt Lake City would not allow their boys to asso ciate with their clergy because they were taught loathsome and vicious habits? Or suppose the Deserct News had come out in large head lines that Episcopal mothers would not send their girls to the Episcopal sunday school because a Salt Lake Episcopal rector was found drunk in a house of prostitution in Los Angeles. 1 would advise Miss Napper to read Christ's parable of the mote and the beam. When I read Miss Napper's falsehood a year ago I overlooked it because the Episcopals arc not re sponsible for the overt acts of one iof their number. But in reading "The Spirit of Missions" for June, 1907, I found that Episcopal Bishop Spaulding of Salt Lake had gone outside of the regular and well kepi rule of the Episcopals "Attend to your own business," and joined in with the Ministerial slandcrbund so ciety in Salt Lake City in its tirade against Utah. The following is what the Rev. Bishop Spaulding advertised 10 the world to injure Utah: "Utah is as hard a field as China, and just as truly a foreign mission." This un qualified foreign falsehood by this reverend Episcopal exception is par allel to "wiggl!ng, giggling inkfish Goodwin," who stated that H. H. Bancroft, the historian, as a bribe taker and an ingrate; or The Tribune when it stated that "Utah was a community of criminals," that "Utah schools were run by the 'echcrous polygamists" and that the "Gentiles of Salt Lake City were denied the ight of franchise," or the Minister ial association when it advertised that "The Gentiles in Utah were helpless in the hands of unscrupulous poly gamists." Will the Rev. Bishop Spaulding tell the people of Utah "why Utah is truly a foreign mis sion?" I want to ask the Rev. Bish op Spaulding why it is that if Utah is truly a foreign (a heathenish) mis sion, why Mormon Utah students (over 200 of them) stand higher mor ally, phys'cally, and intellectually in the eastern colleges than the students do from any other state, sect or creed in the nation; why it was that Marvin Bcnnion, a Utah boy, a grad uate of the Latter Day Saints busi ness college, Salt Lake City, had the best record of 250 midshipmen in the Naval Academy at Annapolis, from every state in the Union. He did not receive a single demerit mark, he stood number one in his class in Eng lish, law and languages and was of fically designated its leader. Bishop Spaulding, I would adrlso you to look up the records of Utah students in eastern colleges, espec ially those of Dr. Eph Hughes of Spanish Fork, Carl Badger, Prof. Ly man and Prof. George Marshall of Salt Lake, Prof. Fred Pack of Cen terville, Joseph Howell, Jr., of Logan and hundreds of the Utah students. I would also advise the reverend bishop to read a letter by Mr. E. C. Knapp, a Sunday school expert, in the Hartford, Conn. Times. Mt. Knapp stated that he had visited all the great Sunday schools of the Unit ed States, after which in his report he said, "I can truthfully say that the Mormon Sunday schools of Salt Lake City arc the best I have ever visited." And instead of making untruthful statements like Dr. Talbott and the Rev. Spaulding, Miss Knapp qualifies his statements and gives good and sufficient reasons for them. The Rev. Bishop Spaulding is out of harmony and different from the average Episcopal rector because he holds up the banner of hatred and slander instead of love and good will. As an Episcopal clergyman he was made wrong. He is like the little boy in the physiology class, when his tea cher told him that God made his nose to smell with arid his feet to run, he replied that God must havo made him wrong for his nose runs, and his feet smell. Yours truly V. S. PEET. Washington, D. C, January 2, 1908. A DONATION PARTY. In Which Two Distinguished Citi zens Give Wisely but Not Well. The past year has been prolific ol competitive contests of various kinds in which one man has demonstrated his physical, mental or acquired pow ers over some other man in certain lines of sport, workmanship, endur ance or capacity. Pugilism and foot ball are easily in the lead; but which of these is .hcad of the other in th: interest manifested and the money taken in, it would be a difficult mat ter to determine. The subjects men tioned, however, are not the only ones in which rivalry running hign and great sums of money involved cut a big figure in the calendar of tha nation's events. Away down east are two gentlemen who arc distantly related to the writ er, named Andrew Carnegie and John D. Rockefeller. I say "distantly' without qualification, because the dis tance is somewhat remote, and this side of Adai. and Eve is too mucn mixed to be traceable or discoverable, so there is no show on earth to swing in for a chance in the great divvy to relatives which may or may not tak? place when the wills are read. Nev ertheless, as suggested, the said Ede nic lessees were as certainly my par ents as those of the more distinguish ed and somewhat better off citizens named. Also, be : remembered, I came into the world with just as much as they did, and will taka jutt as much with me when the circus is over and we are all called home. I was about to add that when they dis they will die just as dead as I will, but Meakin has a patent on that so i it will be allowed to pass. However, all this has nothing to do with the race, match, contest, or whatever it may be called, between those two gentlemen, which was dim ly foreshadowed in the preceding lines. It is thuswisc; Andy (excuse familiarity) opened the game early in the season with an ante of a ro.und million for a library for a flourishing foreign city across the Atlantic. Johnny saw him and went a million 5? better for a simIar (institution in Australia. Andy warmed up at this, saw the raise and highstcd it $3,000, 000, this going for books and sich in various places; whereupon the man with the wig looked thoughtfully for a minute, then, concluding that his opponent was four-flushing, decided to make the bluff look silly and quiet ly doubled the pot, having in view the stocking of many institutions with maps, charts and any story books which may not by this time have been secured. The Pittsburger has oodles of money left and being as free-handed (when it comes to en dowing and stocking up educational institutions) as anybody, is expected to call even if he does not give the pot such r. boost as will equal the Landis fine and make Johnny think twice before coming in. Besides, An drew is dead stuck on going broke before finally cashing in, and at the rate he has been accomplishing his purpose he would have to sit in the game about four hundred (400) years longer to" reach the last bean. Nev ertheless, he has done some pretty steep plunging, such as it is. So has John D. It is a very pretty game and quite interesting, but it might be improv ed. Books arc the aegis of our civil ization. (Those who don't know what I an aegis is will find it somewhere !n the first chapter of Webster). Like- ' wise maps, charts, telescopes, furni- ? ture and other schoolroom equipment arc indispensable adjuncts; while .1 great public library is the keystone of the intellectual arch. These are " costly and it is fortunate that wealthy men exist who arc willing to establish and maintain them. But the way the worthits spoken of play the cime of give-away is by no means that ct the accomplished player. They play only a part of it, in fact, and arc not petting all the enjeyment out of t which it is capable of producing. While peoples' heads are a very im portant part of their physical struo ture they are not the only part by several. Nearer the center of grav- ity is a department of the anatomy which neglected too much would make the crowning member a deaJ hcad in short order the stomach be ing now referred to You can't feel this department in the same way you do the other, by" printed of spoken words or object lessons, but must