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.. "I I T'W w ' lik A V , V Y HWNf, ; ' ' . J - CANYON CUT)) GRANT COUNTY. OREGON, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER Jo, 18SS Number SJfc Volume X. PROFESSIONAL CAHDS. 011L, M. D. Canyon City, Ogn. Ollieu oil Main Street in Koqmb formerly ooou. pied IJy Ur. Howard. D It. O. W. BAKUEU Physician A Surgeon. Canyon City .... Oregon. Formerly of Iowa, ha located hrp. and will attend I'rofciiHlonal call dajor night. XsL Onicc opjwsitc News Ofllee. V. "ir "9 N. II. DO LEY. IDontist Canyon City - Oregon Oflice iu City Hotel. G. I. II AZELTINE. IPliotosrnplic c CANYON CITY. OREGON. Ci S. DENNING. AltoriiC3'-:il-IW' Loxo Cheek Ouk(on J McCULLOUGH. Xotary Public. Ca wo:; City - - Oregon STOfJice with M. D. Clifford -2 Lain! l:n-.' and CoHtvtlons promptly atten ded ta. Ifl and JJorfcfaifes drawn, and E. A. Knight, 3D333STTIST. Front Tin Dalles, has permanently locto(l nt .John Day City. ALL WOBK WARRANTED. Q A. SWEER, tto ev-at-Law Can? C - Oregon. JAIUUSU & COZAD. ATTORNEYS AT LAW. C ax yon City, Ouegok. rjiHOKNTON WILLIAMS Ailcrncj-:it-Ijaw, CANYON CITY . OltKGON x Office at the court nousc. C 1LAY TOD HUNTER. asicl Coliootor. Canyon City, Oree AH !: cntnistid to Ids care wil receive pr!Ht atUiHioii. ana all money win ims paiu as f4i m c i)Icih1. Attorney-at-Law " AND Notary Public. PitAiitii: City - - - Ohegox Also Agent for tho sale of School Lands. J-30t 0UJYBE, Proprietor of chi JohnDay EVfiilk Ranch Fresh milk delivered daily to my customers in John Day unci Cunvon cities. Uive mo your or ders. L Ouveh. V. A. WltMIKB. N'AT. IIlIS0N' Ukcvifw, Or. Hums Or. WILSHIRE & HUDSON Attorneys at Law LAKE VIEW AND ItritXS, OKKGON. WW pract'c- in :ic Circuit Court at Canyon y, mml Before Uie c. s. ucw unite ai wu nr. Av lmiF- Ih tin: OtHre entrusted to us v.W rwt'ive the nmwt thwijA atU!ntiwi. LhikI cases soltcjtwi. V. 0 I10IISLEY,M. D. G H.vnUATK OF TUB UxiVEUSITY OK P ?k.vSyi.vasia, April 8, 1S4S. Cnm-on City, Oregon. Oiiice in hisDniStore, Main Street )nler.s for Dntg jtroniptly filled No professional patronage solieted in' dtrecttonsarestrietly followed "BIT SALOOK!" OAXYOS CITY Oregon Hugh Smith, prop'r. A &4t Haft or tlie rurcrt of Wines and T c .rst ciMMinthe .Market A strfoJy orderly bouc conducted City meat mar' Washington Street, Canyon City, Oregon. CRAY & EADS, Proprietors. -DKAI.EK All Kinds Of A. I1ACIIENEY. DEALER IN" General Merchandise. JOHN DAY CITY- Med Front Billiard Hall! f ' ' I ' i 1 ' V C. D. RiCKARD, Proprietor. Deal eV in fine Wine, Liquors and Cigars. CANYON CITY Jlenrij Rust's Celebrated PRAIRIE J. W. BATES, Proprietor., The Culinary Department is in charge of Competent and Exj erienceel C-oks, wuo spare no labor to do In Connection with this Popular Hotel is at all limes supplied with the Best Brands of Wines, Liquors and Cigars. sami'Li: eooms rou commkkciai. tkaveleks. Ha"DtonstaII & Dart -DEALERS IN- General John Day City, Oregon. eorge .DEALSHS IN, GENERAL lERCHANBIBi CANYON CJTY Kay PRICES mm To HmueUrepersawl 1 'ftrmrr. Ilia impor tant tliat tho Soda or Satcratus you use nhonM bo Whlto and l'ure samo ns all slinilariml.Ht.ncca ussdfjrfood. Tolnsnro obtaining only tho "Arm ti Hamm,,r"brandSod.i or Satorat 8. li y It in poan 1 or lia f pound ' cartoon which bear our name and trad c-mari:. n inforlor j;ood saro 8omc timossubstilutedfortho Arm !i llimracr" brin.l whin bought in bu'k. ParMei using Bikln;ji Powder should remm ber that lta sol's nim property conn'tBts cflil carbona'to of oda. Ono taaapoonf ul of tho "Arm & Hammer" brand of ODU TBADB MAltlC S.d or Saloratusmliod with sour zntli equals ON EVERY Packed in Card Board Boxes. Always keeps Soft. ket. IK FRESH MEATS lWr jj.AII orders filled on shoit notice, - - OREGON. Deer Constantly on Taj. CITY, OR. honor to '.he nalates of Hie Public. ro. 5 OREGON X,mi Merchandise G ICATLY REDUCED. four UMwpoonmls or tao bcatBaking I'OTrdcr.saT lng twenty times lta cost, betides being mnch healthier, because it docs not contnlnnny injurioui substances, such as alum, terra alba etc., of which mnny Unk ing Powders aro made. Dairymen and iarmers should use only tbeAnn l& Hammer" brand for cleaning and keeping Milk Pans Sweet And Clean. Cactiok. Sco that every pound package of Arm and llammor Brand" contains full 1 0 ounces net. and tho af pound packages full Vi ouncx not. Soda or Saleratus Ranio as sped fled on each package. PACKAGE. A SLANDERER EXPOSF.D. Advcrt'.ccincnt. Ed. Grant ipb.. News: Your columns bcingu,pluce of justice and defense, an I having one to make, and being denyed the privilege to malte it through tho source I have been assailed, ask you to please give place to the following vindication of the char- actor and righliipf the It organ ized church of 0sus Christ of L. J). ..Sy.irqm tUfttfyust Calumnies that have been heaped upon it by the Long Creek slanderer called an editor. Editor of the Long Creek Ea gle: In. .your issue of Oct. 15), you make a very unjust, false, and slanderous attack on Ju?eph Smith and the church of .Jeus Christ. You object to his teach ings because they do not endorse polygamy. You say, '"Take away polygamy from your Mor mon doctrine, and your concern will be like an engine without steam," or iu other words as I heard a friend remark lately, What's the benefit of being a Mormon if they have abolished polygamy?" For you and your friends, there may not be much you would desire outside of po lygamy, but for me and my peo ple there is much a relish ior that doctrine is largely owing tu vour nature. You intimate our lenying a belief in polygamy, is through fear of the law; may I not with equal propriety claim that as your reasons for not ac knowledging a belief in that doc trine, and for not still being wiih that people, whom you seem so familiar with; you admit you was tmong them two years and may have been many more for aught ;ve know, and know much more of their "tesing houses," than you have told your having no use for a religion without polyga my seems to indicate it. Of course you will deny ever h iving been connected with them, but your denial conies too late; tlu law makes people deny such, a belief or makes it unpleasant for them if they allirm a belief in it. Your knowledge and familiarity of their daring wavs ami mvsteri ous doings, seems to indie it a closer association with them than a mere observer, and the eager ness with which you assail them clearly shows a personal spite, be- cause of reed or supposed wrong done you, or the disposition of a vulture to feast off the filthy. liotli are probably in your case. My people . on record 0,,. uoUu- polrauny long before (!, 1 . l.w- J,., I UWIIU ll '.ill nin,, h.iv ... ..... posing polygamy long hetoie Uv ' laws made it a crime. While th 1 lhmgs, then the Edmund bill was before the your assertions would have some House, the Saints commonly ; foundation but that you cannot known as Moscphites," had two 1 dl mow give you the elders that were helping it i statement -of those men who through, E. L. Kellev, of Kirk-jteadi and practice polygamy, land, Ohio, and Z. H. Gurley of h surely ought to know when Iowa. These are facts the doctrine was first made i i ii . ,.u: mm, 1 ; known and who bv; men who known to the public, and it is , in- , ii,fl..:ill!liUH high in the polygamous ii. -i .1 u.. . inmucer mat uiusl- ua iiu uit lirighamite church. You say Smith found a stom- and claimed that it was a magic stone, and that bv milting it am i.,. n Mnnl-ni 1 mM 11 1.-5 in u ............. , , . . find stolen property, which is Ocean, reporter, as published in false. You cannot find an ac-. the Salt Lake Daily Herald Feb count of such in any of his writ- ruary 1st, 1882, 'Tolygamy at ings. You seem to take it upon that time was unknown among vnnrself because I said 1 believed those of the Mormon faith. It lie was a good man, to make it appear that he was not, acting I suppose as a guardian for the people, to prevent them from be ing deceived, as you supposed; but in what way could they be injured by believing he was a good man, even if he was not. any more than by behoving Jo quin Miller or Tom Savers were good men. ..You may say it is his leaching you want to guard against, for they are hurtful: then why not attack them? they 'are before you. It is riot necessary to go back through the dim un certain past to find out about them, if it is with them you have to do, would it not be better and much more becoming to the pro fession of a journalist to strike directly at them', than to traduce the name of a dead man. one who cannot return from the voiceless dust to speak in his own defense? You claim, I suppose to give weight to your statements to have lived where he did, as do most all of his enemies, and no doubt every time you got away from your mother, went into liis yard to play, and get posted. He diiL not lack ToF neighbors if you all tell the truth, but I would as soon believe you as the other (5, for in my opinion you know just as much. ''He, (Smith) claims to have received his first revela tion of that issue (polygamy) in 1S.'!2, and in 183-1 he claimed sexual freedom for himself. In July 1S4IJ lie made known his revelation on Celestial marriage." Where does he claim this? in which of his writings is it found? I pronounce this, the above state ment, a malicious fasehood, and challenge the proofs, and until you can produce them you must relnain, as you are, a base slan derer. Produce a line from any of his writings, in proof of your statement if you can, that then or now, in the mo?t distant man ner, teaches or permits such, the church works of that day are .in the hands of many outside of the church, so if it is true it will be an easy matter to prove it. If he had or claimed to have had such a revelation, it n'ust be shown that it was in print before his death, his enemies saying he had such, is no proof of it. You say a "scare of apostate women and spiritual wifes says he had.'' What proof arc these statements made after his death and by in terested parties? If a man -should die leavingMio will, and supposed to have no heirs, and a woman should present herself claiming to bo his wife, ami re quest Ids property, of how nm-h weight would be her bare testi mony ? Then of how much are the testimonies of these women who has aposti.ed, as you say, and were then in polygamy and made this statement in their own defense? You falsely charge him with authorizing that which was conceived in tiie evil ni'itds of others, and try to make him responsible for acts done long af- . trr his death, bv those who had from Jhc church) aml were acting in direct violation of bis teaching. If it could be , ov,n Urn (he dee.ls . .re of crime in li'iv- church. The Desert News ot Aug. 2, 1882, says, that "when the mormons were driven out of Missouri, plural nfarriago was j ; not then a- tenet of their creed." I Mr. C liiwgon saitl to an Mr. Clawson said to Inter was not therefore the practice of nolviramv that caused them to be driven from Illinois in the most better season of the year." Mr. George Q. Cannon says in a sermon delivered Jan. 11, 1871: uIt was not on account of our be lief in polygamy that we have been hated. Joseph and Ilirum Smith were slain in Carthage jail, and hundreds of people were persecuted to death previous to the church having any knowl edge of this doctrine." Mr. Can non is one of the best informed men in that church, who says that thev had no knowledge of that doctrine during the Joseph Smith life, but if this is not .'iiough I will furnish more. If j your statement is true, why did ; John Taylor deny its existence and practice in 1850? Why did Messrs. John T. Caine, John W. Taylor, and Mr. Cannon, Jr., take to President Cleveland a protest adapted by a mass meet- in.r of fbr. nonnlr. in wln,.l, nrn-' ing of the people, in which pro test the statement is made that the public autorization of plural marriage dates in 1852? Here we have the testimony of the leading men of that church, that polygamy was no part of their teaching until S years after Jo- soph Smith's death. I have now shown fully from the most relia ble testimony that polygamy was not his teachings. I will next show what they were, which I can prove was in print before Ids death, and was the law of the church then, and now. Sec. -12 4,7, Look if Covenants, "Thou shalt love thy wife (observe sin gular number) with all thy heart, and shall cleave unto her and none else; and he that look eth upon a woman to luat after her, shall deny the faith, and shall not have the spirit; and if he repents not. he shall bo cast out." The above quotation is a law given to the church by Smith. The Lord again savs through Jo seph, Sec -15J P. C: "And again I say unto you. that who soever forbiddflh to marry, is not ordained of (!od, for marriage is ordained of CJotl unto man; wherefore it is lawful that he phould have one wife, etc." I will now give you the form of the marriage covenant: "You both mutually agree to be each others companions, husband and wife, observing the legal rights belonging to this condition; that is, keeping yourselves wholly for each other, and from all others during your lives." The abovti is the only-marriage law ever given to the Latter Day Saint Church, and I challenge vou to show anv other.- In Book of D. and C. ''4 Sec 112 (old edi tion) we read: "We believe that religion is instituted of God, and that men are amenable to him. and to him only, for the exercise of it, unless their religious opin ions prompt them to infringe on the rights and libertt-s of oth ers." Also cko, Sec. 58: "Let no man break the laws of the land, fur he that keepetit the laws of (Jod hath no need to break the laws of the land." In what church creed, will you find better laws than the above. You may answer that they did not all keep them; in that case who is to blame, the law breaker or the law maker? Now Mr. Editor unless you can show that the al ovc rule of faith and practice was changed or never given, you must stand condemned as a vile euhninator, as you have the reputation of being. You say all Mormons came from the same source true, all protestantism came from Catholicism: but can the hitler be held responsible for the burning of Servets, Latimer and others? Surely not. Neither can Joseph Smith be for the acts of those who had apostatized from his teachings, and been cut oil from all church fellowship. You say in speaking of the Mountain Meadow Massacre, that orders for that crime, "was issued by re-organized Josejdiites," which is "perhaps the blackest falsehood you have told since you came to Long Creek. There was no re-organized Jo?ephites' church in existence it that time: not until three years after. John D. Lee does not say he received his orders from them, which you well knew when you panned that falsehood. Shame on a man that will dishonor the high and responsible position of a journal ist, to vent his spite in such a disgracing manner. You say go with you to Arizona, to witness I suppose some of your former haunts. There is not a branch of the re-organized church there; vou must return alone to such places of wickedness; no L. D. S. will go with you. "The main body," vou sav followed the Twelve. If 10.UU0,out of 200,000 was the majority, then you have told the truth, for that was tho church membership at the time of Smith's death, and 10,000 the number that went to Salt Lake with Brijdiam. Then in 1852 the doctrine of polygamy was first publicly taught and sane- tioncd by the church. You may say you quote from standard his- torys; you well know that histo rians do not always chronicle j facts, but things as they appear j to them, and that they differ ! greatly in their writings. I sup- !se vou pretend to be a believer !" CIlL I WOllld ask, Can VOU be such and behove m the stall danl history ot his day those written by non-believers in his divinity? I may say hero as I did in your town that I am not -presenting Joseph Smith to-tho-people, and asking them to follow him, any further than he follows Christ. I do not nrcsent hb merits as a means of saving the. people, but his leaching, and them I am willing to defend in your town or anywhere else. Lest some few might believe your statement, "that the Joseph ites and Salt Lake Mormons are the same," I will produce some evidence on that point from some of the leading newspapers, if they have tojd the truth you havenj: The opera house last night held a large attentive and well behav ed audience, during the interest ing lecture or sermon, of Presi dent Joseph Smith, son of Joseph the elder, who was numbered among the early Mormon mar tyrers, the burden of his remarks was to show the ille gality and sin of polygnmy. Ogden (Utah) News. (Arizona) Herald of the lGlh, tilt., we see how well posted journalists are becoming in re spect to the genuine original doc trines of the church. "Whom the gods would destroy, they first make mad." was a saying of the ancients that never was better illustrated than it is to-day, in the case of the Utah polygamists however their polyga my is not even a Mormon insti tution. The great Hrighum Young institued it for his own convenience. The old Mormon church doctrine of Jo Smith taught r.o such crimes against society and the government. In his Bible Hook Mormon) there f occurs this passage, and thcTcid church lived up to it: "For there shall not any man among you have, save it be one wife, and concubines he shall have none." And again in tho old Mormon book of commandments.: "Let no man break the laws of the land, for he that keepcth the laws of God has no need to break the laws of the land!" From these primordial doctrines tho Utah Mormons have widely de parted under Young and Taylor. The other I ranch, t he Josephitcs still holds tenaciously to the an cient doctrines of virtue and loy altv. The following is from the .ii r i. . .t.,.... o:iii iiiiue x i muni;, itiuni ciiuo how much sympaty there is be tween Josephitcs and Utah Mor mons: "The Desert News was a fren zied organ last nigt. It is in a nanic over, the coming of Joseph Smith, the rightful successor to his father in the presidency of the Mormon church. The Alta California of May 15, in its ed itorial has Hie following: 'Po lygamy was not included in the tenets or practices of the early Mormon faith; it was not con ceived in the brain of Joseph Smith, the founderer of the Mor mon church. It was an after thought of Biignam Young, who promulgated it as a revelation similarly as Mohamet declared his desires by cunning promulga tion.' The Chicago Evening Journal of Feb. 12 had the fof lowing in its editorials. That branch of the Mormon church of Latter Day Saints which has its center at IMano, 111., is in harmo ny with the general sentiment of the country, demanding the en forcement of the law tor the pun ishment and suppression of po lygamy in Utah. In a memori al to congress they set forth tho history and faitli of the Mormon church, showing that polygamy was explicitly forbidden by the founderers of the sect; that po lygamy was subsequently injtct- j ed into the creed by evil minded men, and asking that those guil ty of this vile and scandalous practice may be treated as crimi nals, being violators alike of the true Mormon faith, of common decency and of the laws of the country."' The above shows our work in congress to suppress polygamy and that it never was a part of our faith. Now Mr. Ed. I bid you adieu, perhaps I have wast ed too much time anil space, m answering what the public gener ally knew to be false. II IK am L. IIout.