| Show THE LURE OF NEWSPAPERING path And the News soon died The Nephi Ensign was only occasionally anti-Mormon and was in fact listed in the 1888 directory as Pro-Mormon Nonetheless after four years it met its end admitting in print The causes which led to its demise were extravagance fraud beer and the ungrateful acts of an unprincipled rascal The rascal went unnamed OgdenFreeman continuation of the once-mobile Frontier Index frequently contained the anti-Mormon doctrine of Horatio Vattel the pseudonym of publisher Legh Freeman who called his alter-ego the Scout of the Rocky Mountains Alter observes If it was unfavorable to the Mormons it was news to Freeman How the Mormons must have herded together against the wolves of those days The worst thing that could be said among the Gentile press about one another was that the other truckled to the Mormons The four-year exposure of the Freeman ended in mid-1879 when Legh Freeman moved bag and-baggage to Montana OgdenEvening Dispatch born January 1879 was described by that cityhistorian Frank Cannon in these terms It was an anti-Mormon sheet and was of course opposed to the religion politics and general policy of the Mormon lead ers and community On February 1880 it ceased publication The Daily Pilot made its Ogden debut in March 1881 and was well-supported by Ogden business firms with advertising and its citizenry with subscriptions But Alter observes the first number containedvigorous and pronounced attack on the religious tenets of the majority of the citizens so that they withdrew their patronage and of course the institution suffered in consequence The Millenial Star commented on December 1884 The Ogden Pilot rank anti-Mormon paper has col lapsed The Silver Reef Miner listed in the American Newspaper Directory as Anti-Mormon when it entered its third year in 1881 evidently demonstrated its credentials sufficiently to convince the Logan Leader for on March 17 1882 the Cache Valley paper said The Silver Reef Miner is notMormon 275 Digital image 2005 Marriott Library University of Utah Al rights reserved |
