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Show ruiCAfio i.etteii. Jnalos" Pursues sad Probes fie Ententes or 1 rredest an J ef UlaU. Chicago, May IS, 1590. special corresi oudecce of the Deseritt News. While glancing over tlie pars a few muriiins ago I noticed a paragraph relating to Utah, aud ait is a fair sample of huud reds if such which apar from time to time, it is here submitted as it originally origi-nally appeared in the Chicago iWJ-unr. iWJ-unr. New 1 oil; d-atrbc is yrilerdaj'j fa pcriialed that ibe adrafie jntar ot a arar it li s llrnii coatch IimI laftd4 ia cw lftrfc from Ibe neaM.fr tCjvmhtf It Mi sal! taat luia ws Ibe at ualrti of Manaoo ruM';ts formsrssd tbieacNi nader tuv psrwinai cwadact vt rcjrutail) eiaiwsiBet anc&ts of tne aionaoii CUiarra. 11 e Iircevf. wito rcFtvletvJ (nsa Ulali atllie Lrla&d vcttfnlay. Ual aae tblsKiB;eretiBi; f n lb subfoc. "It u ri ncr.-H iifn d, he telalcl, I IBllUKUCIIICIRitKJDfnUHainHII a few wseks ajn bvl rwmplislr cmsbel thec U-lcff ,cf; paofJe. Ibu is a mi,ube W tl ofiVera are labonaj; to eaforr tbe Ult"inonr,cttaLrraiatocroa4rQBcincascal are yiltK nnz rcrnn.i la tbe inn W rHt asd scndlne tbcu over here la larj bca ben. It is a lace Ota' Ibe mairt3 of the rerruiu are jroua w-oasen and ;ir t. Tber VtHr netbLa? f tbe true evbditiwi ot the tub Mormona. but rooe over here on re-presrnlalloos re-presrnlalloos made hy Ibe atsMb udLiac aeau. who plnare tlc Mormon eulemetil as a sort ot paradi. I he Iratb 1 not icarae-uaul larse prU are !:. of loe ehercliaBdof scbenilafr men rrom srhat I've seen or tbee t treenrra I don't belief e Ibatoee recrn t ercr h-id an acennue idea of tbe trorn in nbieb tbe Moribon Cbiirrb u Lel-1 br rev-uble Kjde. hea air. Evarts vrat Seeretair ot stile be advued all diplomatic ajrents lcm Ibe Called - talcs to vara the common f ,'K ajramat tbe se dactive tonea tjid by tbe Mormon mta-ton-anee. roryearo ttictcsfte&l bare Infected certain rectionaof Larope. aad Mr. braiti,' prccautlun vraa aa vsc aa hnmane. Tbe people of rial) are woiLing bard to eap-lrea eap-lrea ibu a omioabte aierarrbjr. but Ibetr elforuare handieapped br tbr,e forenra I read and re-rvnd tlieabbve ut tcrancesofMr. D.cker. whoever ho R To say that such statrmt nts are uon-cn-ical would be taking to', mild a view of the matter. The fact Is no really sane m in v. ould relieve re-lieve himself of such fully. Inanity and paltry fal-e-hyjd. Or if he is sane lie is a living libel on the English-speaking races. He is a satyre in buckram, a Coiigo savage in American citizenship Whether his name lie Decker or Wrecker, his only human prototyes were those infamous wretches who bv treacherous treacher-ous signal I'ghts used to lure unfortunate un-fortunate mariners on to the rocks of maritime coasts. Mr. Discker is but one of a numercus class as far as Mcrmonism Is concerned. We must go lack n century fur his jo-litical jo-litical prototypes. In a letter written writ-ten by the famous Junius lo the Duke of Grafton, we will find such vampires as Decker truthfully ic-trajed. ic-trajed. Here are theojenlug sentences sen-tences of this letter 7 J7rt firtKt of Grhm , Mr LorCIf nature bad inreo Ton aa oa-demaedleK oa-demaedleK qaautssf to keep pire wi:h the vrbea -nd pnnnplea ol yoar heart, the ruorJhavc n-aie jou. erlap, Ibe SKHt frmidab!e Qia slcr that ever was cm plored. nnderatlatUed monarrh. to aisna-p!ib aisna-p!ib tte ruin ot a Iree, i eonlc. W tea neither the fcella;, ef shame, tbe rrpruaeh c of eoncelecce, nor the dre d ol nabb-ma&l nabb-ma&l tons any bar to tbe dcauas of a minuter, the pevp e would hire loo much reason lo lament their condition, if they did noi 60 1 aome mosrre in the vreaknoa of bu anderttandins. We owe it lo Ibe boSntr ot frorllcnM that tbe compleltslderjaT-iit compleltslderjaT-iit of tfce heart ia sometimes raarelr cnited arlth a eoBfottoa or the mind, w hfb eoBBleraeta ibe mo.t lirottte rinnp.'es. and mates ttc aanie mca trearberoo wiih ocl art. aad a iipicnte vnihont decelnac.) rbi letter a vrntirn on Jn r s. C . o the w ilkes 1 nllrett -lertion In Middteacx. Mr.VVlitMrecrt-4In;TUtc.Mr lautreil SC Ihe fb'Ttff retnrnd vv uaea a the electel member, bat ibe Ilowe ot Com maa seated LattrcIL Jamas wrote lie f itnooi letter v hKh commetaew ith the above acsleares. I". s. senis9Hnd Coa leasaieaxeacrailt- would do nVII tj read the 1 ttcrto Inll be,ore iTureedine 10 teela-IsleoDtbeUuh teela-IsleoDtbeUuh nrftton Let Item re-men.ber re-men.ber that t'lah -arpet bacxera aro def,raied in bcart,-xsfad ib mtod. rresn-Ittled rresn-Ittled In poliltcs. I n the case of Mr. Wrecker, Is not the utterance of Junius realized? Dj we not see a putrid heart and an imbecile mind in one bodv? He savs the world has not heard of Mor-niouim Mor-niouim or real of it. Theuwhal has beccme of the millions of tons of perjured literature scattered broadcast, traducing, vilifying, de faming end denouncing Mormon-ism? Mormon-ism? Is thcro a quarter of thecivil-ized thecivil-ized world free from the venomous slanders of the Utah carpetbaggers and their friends? Yes, Mr. Evarte dM I-ue a kiud of papal allocution to the powers of Europe, I-ut what did Gladstone, the G. O. M., say iu reply? He said, substantial! 1 , that Monuouism wouid como cut ell right, and lhat tlie govenimem could not Interfere with tbecmlgra tion of its converts. It is only a few weeks ago that Governor Thomas of Utah jaassed this way to Washington. He was accompanied by one Caleb W. We--t and one K. i. Basklu, both creatures crea-tures of the Decker-"Wrtckcr ty. They visited our ncwsjnpcrs here and of course discharged a volume of their rancorous bilo on the Chicago public through the pages of some of IU press. They succeeded suc-ceeded especially through the Inter-Ocean Inter-Ocean nwsjajcr. That journal published as iditorial matter oLe of Governor Thomas' screeds nbcul public buildings In Salt Lake to overawe foreign tourists. This I paper is run by a man named j vVilbrlm Pendennis vixon. It I read largely by farmers, though lb" policy is of that protective nature which heli tbe farmer ti mart-gages mart-gages in plenty. It has Lulltup a I large circulation net by protectior, but by bounty. Every subs riber used to get a washing machine, a potato peeler and tometimes a "Curiosity Shop" dictionary. The farmers sturTcd themselves with something that st'ile away their brains, and gave Uiem mortcagra and washing machines In abundance. abund-ance. They begin lo see their folly, and the In'cr Ocean lias changed its tactics. It is endeavoring to infuse new talent into its asluhv stall. It picked up a railroad lalwrer recently named IM Grant, who Is galvanizing galvaniz-ing its moribund pazes into a kind of siclly vitality. This is the kind-of kind-of lapermid tlie- tbe kiud of patriots patri-ots who revile Mormotilsni. As to the action of Governor Tltwms I do it knaw how to characterize charac-terize IL Itlslieynodlielief tothiiik that the Governor of any Territory within U. S. jurisJittiou thouIJpio c t-d ti Washington and by umler-ground umler-ground in-ans attempt U lifrai-clii-u a csMumunity of American citizens. 1 11 a country cf free speech, itud where the people are supreme., it is positively ku dalous tidaas thtG vernorofUub has done. In an official way he may have imagined himself justi fled iu making political reports of any nature, and of suggesting methods' of disfranchisement of an kind, but la this ut derhand way he h degraded Amciican citizen-hip and the American government to th level of mmsiiop politics aLd bagnio statesoianshliL In tbe letter already quoted from, JnnliH says of Grafton's conduct as minl-tc-. " "Voa have desradeti Ibe royal dianilv iQlo a base dishonorable eomiM: luon vtta Mr W rites, ojr had yon abilities to rarr even ibn lat eontetnpuals tnnmph orer a private man, vnihont the ktboscsI wolat oa f the fttodaaieBtal i-. of the I'ontUtation and rbt4la of Ibe people But these are rurhu. my lord. vtUch you ran no more fcuftihtl! than tab can tbc aasl to vebvcb lacy arc aaneaeL" Tiie tory Grafton aiff republican I liomas are brethren. Thomas lias degraded Americau democracy to a lu-e (ttifoggcry, and the contemptible con-temptible triUQ.pli recently obtained over tbe private conscience 01 a citizen none that will fbrcver disgrace dis-grace the juges f Americau hi tory. l!jt as Juuius h-iys, tin rights of the s-oplc are as firm as the mountain uf Utah, abu eaunol 1st dL-lodjrsi by the miniature sitHcf Utah and Idaho. Ann furthermore, as tlie Infamous aud odious Pigolt was the meant of bringing Gludstoiie and ail fair-minded fair-minded Knlirhtueu Into a sense of duty toward their sister isle, so tile coutempfii Id JSaskiU", tlie dc,.r.ived Deck, , the rewarded Powers, the unn-generated Wests, will Is;ad are the means of propi-sPiting propi-sPiting MnrinouUni, and of calling attention to the inroads made upon Murktars, Illicit 'esairi CocsUtutkui by a horde ot ru films devi.td of stiame, dtaii to hunor and blind to comnioti decen y. Tlieslreet walker Ulvattudirguise or cum eal her calling call-ing because of the instincts ut Hotunuhocd still left in her, but the Utah ntrpet-bager glories; in lib-meretricious lib-meretricious Inuuer and lifts il aloft bet ause the insliucls of man are dead him. the divine e--ence is c'in-Iy ciushed cut ut him, and ho wruhl be a rifting rif-ting Illtistin'ion for the Saratoga Prcsbyt. rians to demonstrate that the re are still children of erdIUoii, "tilkliuni.111 1 tings totally depraved, still bipeds-in human form who so:l the-lr owu i'sts,f.ul wolves who re-turn re-turn to tiieir vomit. This is t lie plain truth about Utah, though spoken in homely phrase, and the snorter it is know 11 Use better. Jt'Mrg. |