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Show OF THE OLD DAYS. The saints should not crowd the McMillan incident too strong, else some one may review the history of Mormon intollerance in the old days. Rev. McMillan may have been and still may be a royal liar, but there are others. No , religion has ever yet cured a chronic liar. The statements made in Harper's Magazine .in 1881 were taken direct from the lips of Rev. McMillan and believed by the writer to be true, but they would not have been printed without verification had not the surroundings made them most probable. prob-able. They correspond perfectly with Brigham Young's "hell across, lots" sermons; they were in keeping perfectly with the treatment given H Messrs. Harrison and Godbe before the "School H of the Prophets" in this city; they were in per- H feet accord with the treatment of all Christian H ministers by the News under the same editor who H is so shocked now that any one should intimate that there eVer was a time when gentiles were not welcomed and kindly treated in any part of Utah. H The News and affidavit-makers seem to have for- H gotten when Bishop Tuttle could only by strategy purchase a lot in this city upon which to build a M church; when the filth was thrown into the homes - of United States district attorneys and commis- sioners; when the present headxof the church in M the Tabernacle advised the people to save their M money and buy guns; when houses of prostitu- tion were opened by Mormon elders with money M subscribed by the chief priests, in the hope of M arresting and disgracing prominent Gentiles; M when Gentiles were called from their homes and M assassinated in the streets; when the first Lib- M eral meeting was broken up by Mormon police M and outrages too numerous to mention were per- M petrated. M We advise the saints to go slow and not pro- M voke a careful review of their proceedings in the days of their unlimited power in Utah, for there M are too many witnesses still living to make their M lamb-like protestations win. They should put H that business off for another quarter of a century M before attempting to veneer with gentleness and M kindness their old ways.i H Again, the schools taught under Mormon guid- H ance in Utah twenty years ago should not be M lauded too highly. A student whp graduated at H the Utah (Deseret) University in those days H wont to work for a Gentile who is still a proml- H nent resident of an adjpining county to Salt H Lake. His employer one diy requested him to H take a team, go down to the train and bring up H some expected friends. He returned without H them and .explained the reason in .these words: H "I found your friends ain't came." H The News tells of falsehoods that were con- H coctod and told in the early eighties to try to H bring about the disfranchisement of the saints. H In those days the News declared that the pur- H pose was to get up a disturbance through which H the Gentiles could rob the saints of their posses- H sions. The News lied then, it lies now. There H was never any effort made by any Gentiles in H Utah to wrong any Mormons. All the agitation H was to try to bring their lives under subjugation H to the laws of the United States, the same as all good citizens in all the slates are subject to. All the troubles the Mormons havo ever had, here or H elsewhere, have come from their determination H to bo a law unto themselves. It is the clinging to this determination on the part of the church chiefs that makes whatever of heart burning there still is in Utah. And we suspect that the heart burning burn-ing will continue until that determination is abandoned. |