: 1L I The Utah Devil Fish I 1 11 II Peet Give a Little Inside History I IIILV Regarding the Animal. I ri Editor Tr'tth: I fftf Th dev!I fish' thc octl,us the Utah I 1 HI black b'ot on the map of the Unit- I I ed States, the badge or emblem ol I I tl,e Salt Lake Ministerial Association, I "t the Rev. Elmer I. Goshen rc- fcrred to at -the, banquet of the Com- IN V mercial club (where a reporter of the Jl Tribune in reviewing Mr. Goshen's ftlir statements had classified Mr. Goshen JT along with thc members of the Min fl isterial Association) will be my theme this week. t V 5) In Dcccmber' I0S, the preacher of SaIt Lakc City were rctil,estcti by j , tllc Manufacturers' Association to i ' s ' preach sermons boosting Utah. On that occasion the Rev. Mr. Goshen Preferred to the "black blot devil fish" llll '" scathing and denunciatory terms; III! lle referred to it as one of the dia- r llll bolical advertisements that injured J II 4 Utah- With the exception of the Rev. H Peter Simpkins, all the other preach . . HI ers of Salt Lake, instead of boosting, i 5jS I knocked as hard as they could. One U& V referred to Salt Lake as a withering, Mr HI blistering hell; another called it a LSI mddern Sodom; and tnothfcr said " I & 1 " other city could be found where A ksiTSr III mrC flagrant crime was committed ItffTkSvfl both night and dav- Knowing that T!FJ tl,C ReV' Mr" Goshcn would speak BXfggrial well of Salt Lake, the Tribune did TjTiJj 1 !10t send a reporter to hear him, but ' I " I . i' did report all the oMicrs. Tlie Des- m I cret Ncws reported Mr. Goshen's f sermon and recently quoted what he I said about the Utah black blot that was beina circulated to injure Utah, I Mr. Goshen has always been a A) H friend to Utah, that is why the Trib- nnc misquotes him and the Minister- V I ial Association hates him. There is V ' I hardly a preacher in Salt Lake but A I what will knock Mr. Goshen as hard A4v if not harder than he will Joseph ( I F. Smith. They are very jealous of S II I Mr. Goshen because he probably has X I a larger congregation than all thc x I others put together. When he first Pv I came to Utah he saw thc true situa- Q V I tion. The Herald and Presbyter, W JJ in 1903, the great Presbyterian p.-.p cr Brother Wishar.d writes for, de voted three columns commencing on the first page, telling what a "Sad Qise" the Rev. Elmer Goshen ot Salt Lake was. If the Inter-Mountain Republican had read the back-numbers back-numbers of "Truth," it would have descovcrcd that thc Ministerial Association As-sociation of Salt Lake gave birth to the hideous Utah devil fish in ioo;. I and it was not until the Tribune pSl found that it could not coerce the A6 fllM Mormon church into politics before I M J it adopted the devil fish emblem. Hf A 1 In 1902, Sherman II. Doyle, D. D Wi Cffl&L I Ph. D., stated in the "Presbyterian ( Wl J Home Missions:" "Like a huge oc- VSlfivl topus, the Mormon hicrachy is fast ft Jul cning its tentacles throughout the wtStlM Rocky Mountain States, and is sap- vSVCl ping from its devotees the very life I ",V I blood of American freedom." From I J JB the above Ppham & Co., Boston, con H) ccivcd the idea of making Utah a fl devil fish blot on the map of the H, United States. HB In the Presbyterian assembly in HB' Los Angeles in 1903, Rev. Charles HB Thompson, secretary of the Presby- fl tcrian home mission board, referred V to it as follows: "Have you read m Victor Hugo's 'Toilers of the Sea?' B Then you remember that awful por- Bfl trayal of the man in the sea who BB tneountcred an octopus. Listen to BB, it again: Its folds strangle, its con- BB tact paralyzes, it is disease embodied BB, in monstrosity, it is not to be torn BHi away, it adheres closely to its prey. Bi How? By a vacuum. The octopus on Bfl the chase hides. It contracts con- B (lenses itself, reduces itself to the B simplest possible exptcssion. It con- Bfl founds itself w" It the shadow. It BB looks like a ripple of the waves. It B resembles everything except some- H thing living. The octopus is a hy- BB pocritc.- When one pays no heed to BB' it, suddenly it opens a glutcnous mass BB possessed of a will. What more B fr'ghtfull Glue filled with hatred! BB The octopus is vulnerable only in Bfl the head. There is a certain moment B in which to scire it. It is the in- M stant when it thrus s foreward its M head. He who misses at Miat junc- fl turc is lost. Awful description, but it HB describes Mormonism. It too, stran- M gles whatever it enfolds. Beware of BB the octopus," etc., etc. Rev. Dr. Paden, the Rev. S. E. M Wishard, Rev. Mr. Martin and other Bfl Presbyterian preachers of Utah heard HJ the above speech and cheered to the B echo. The illustrated lecture which fl the Presbyterian board of home mis- HH sions sends out with sixty-nine lant- Bfl crn slides to injure Utah, in cxhibit- M ing her as a "red star" on the Amcri- H can flag sr.ys that the Utah red star BI stands for "cunning, deceit, trcach- H ery, fraud and crime." Following BJ this in the lecture it shows the Utah H devil fish map, with its long snakey BJ tentacles, grasping the adjoining H states and territories and one running BJ across the map grasping Washing- H ton. This last tentacle was first cal- H led B. H. Roberts, but now they call BJ it Reed Smoot. The description of H the devil fish is as follows: "That BJ formidable monster of the deep, the BJ octopus, holding and crushing all in BJ its grasp, weTTVeprcsents the monster BJ Mormonism, in the heart of the BJ country, spreading out in all dircc- BJ tions, winding one tentacle around BJ Washington with a death grip. To BJ wrest any of this territory or cap- IJ ture any forces from these clutches IJ will mean a mighty struggle. Shall BJ it be with the clashing of arms and BJ the shedding of blood? The Mormon IJ church is determined to perpetuate IJ polygamy," etc., etc. H In 1903, the Salt Lake Ministerial BJ Association established the "Gentile BJ bureau of information," in which BJ bureau they adopted the Utah devil H fish map as their emblem or motto. BJ They advertised and sent out nine BJ scurrilpus and misleading anti-Utah BJ booklets, all of which had the Utah IJ devil fish map on the outside cover. The Utah devil fish had been circulated circu-lated by the Salt Lake ministerial assoc:ation for nearly three years before be-fore Tom Kcarns, Fred .Dubois and the Salt Lake Tribune adopted iv It was strongly in evidence when Dubois stated on the floor of thb United States Senate, on February 5, 1903; "I live among those, (the Mormon) people and as far as I know, in Idaho, there has not been a polygamous marriage celebrated since the manifesto was issued, and I have yet to find a man in Idaho or anywhere else who will say that a polygamous -marriage has been celebrated cele-brated anywhere since the issuance of the manifesto," etc. The ministerial minis-terial association was flaunting the Utah devil fish map as its emblem when Tom Kcarns invited President Joseph F. Smith as one of his honored hon-ored guests at a banquet given in his new palace on Brigham Street. The Utah devil fish was being nursed and groomed by the ministerial association associa-tion when Tom Kcarns called at President Joseph F. Smith's office and begged and plead with President Smith to get into politics and help elect him, (Kearns), to a, second term in the United States Senate. Dr. Paden and Dr. Wishard were riding the Utah devil fish to their anti-Utah interviews in the eastern papers, when Tom Kcarns gave a banquet to President Joseph F. Smith and other prominent Mormons in the Raleigh Hotel, Washington, D. C, just after President Smith had sworn that he (Mr. Smith) was living in polygamous polygam-ous relations. It was at this banquet that Kearns again begged Mr. Smith to get into politics and help him (Kcarns) to a second term in the Senate, Kcarns offering President Smith as a bait to turn over the Salt Lake Tribune and the Telegram in boosting Utah and the Mormons. President 'Smith refused point blank to go into politics for Kcarns or any one else. It was then and not till then that Kearns, the Tribune and the Telegram fully adopted- the Ministerial Utah devil fish map. Ever Ev-er since the above, Kearns ajtd his papers have been scurrilous ulcers, sapping and befouling Utah, her people, peo-ple, and her institutions. When Rev. Delos Edwin Fink, representing rep-resenting the Presby'erian board of home missions, threw the Utah devil fish map on the screen at Gloucester, New Jersey, one evening in March. 1907, he said he would put four words on the map of Utah to indicate the people of that state and those words were "treason," "despotism," "anarchy," "anar-chy," and "crime." Wake was authorized auth-orized by the Salt Lake ministerial association to distribute the Utah devil de-vil fish maps; he could probably give a better history of it than I have done, as he was on the "inside." I wish he would write a letter to Truth and explain how much good the devil fish map has done Utah and the ministerial association. Yours very truly, V. S. PEET. Baltimore, Md., January 17, 1908.