--- title: Improvement Era description: Monthly periodical of the Mormon church, 1897 onward. This library holds the issues of November 1897 to December 1930. authors: - Young Men’s Mutual Improvement Associations collections: - periodicals tags: - magazine - improvement-era periodical: Improvement Era volume: 14 number: 3 published: 1911-01 publisher: Young Men’s Mutual Improvement Associations publisher_place: Salt Lake City language: en type: magazine reference: 'Young Men’s Mutual Improvement Associations, "Wrong Again—and “There’s a Reason”," *Improvement Era* 14, no. 3 (January 1911): 269.' source: url: https://archive.org/details/improvementera1403unse transcription: Transcribed from the Internet Archive scan of each issue (the item for each issue is named in the issue's own source); unnumbered advertising leaves are omitted, printed page numbers are kept as page markers. identifier: improvementera1403unse start_page: 269 end_page: 269 rights: status: public-domain basis: US publication 1930 or earlier (published 1911-01) source: https://archive.org/details/improvementera1403unse publication_year: 1911 note: The Internet Archive item metadata carries a blanket "© Copyright by Intellectual Reserve, Inc." notice. The library owner judged it inapplicable because this issue was published in 1911, before 1931; a scan-level notice does not restore copyright. --- # Wrong Again—and “There’s a Reason” EDITOR'S TABLE. 269 covenant between him and his God. This applies also to children who have arrived at the years or accountability. Joseph F. Smith. Wrong Again— and "There's a Reason." Frank J. Cannon, the erratic ex-senator of Utah, is writing a series of articles against the authorities of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, the first of which appeared in the December number of Everybody's Magazine. His purpose is not new, at all, because he says: I propose, in this narrative, to show that the leaders of the "Mormon" Church have broken their covenant with the nation; that they have abused the confidence of the Gentiles of Utah, and betrayed the trust of the people under their power I undertake, in fact, in this narrative to expose and to demonstrate what I do believa to be one of the most direful conspiracies of treachery in the history of the United States. Following this vicious and false thrust against the authorities, he pens a glowing tribute to the "Mormon" people themselves: Not that I have anything in my heart against the "Mormon" people! Heaven forbid! I know them to be great in their virtues, wholesome in their relations, A capable of heroic fortitude, living by the tenderest sentiments of fraternity, as gentle as the Quakers, as staunch as the Jews. I think of them as a man among strangers thinks of the dearness of his home. I am bound to them in affection, by all the ties of life. The smiles of neighborliness, the greetings of friends, all the familiar devotion of brothers and sisters, the love of the parents who held me in their arms — by these, I know them as my own people, and by these I love them as a good people, as a strong people, as a people worthy to be strong and fit to be loved. It is surpassing strange that the leaders, from the beginning of the history of such a good people, should have been such bad, wicked men; and particularly, that the present leaders should be worse than all the rest. It is the old reason for attacks upon the Saints, prevailing from the beginning; the people have always been good, but they have always been misled by their wicked leaders.