Show THE HONORED DEAD iff contradistinction to those journals which draw their inspiration on mormon affairs irom froma a local auti mor imor roon mon sheet which is nothing it if not slanderous the chicago inter ocean gives the following estimate of the character of the late president john taylor which the aforesaid papers kave have endeavored to belittle the mormon church of utah has a week lost the brainiest brai niest man among its leaders and has been officially notified of th the e g of a suit sui t to the church and to wind up its fali business nees toe death of president dent skilor takes away from the polygamous mormons cormons an individual torce potent in church councils council and business affairs since the time of joseph smith and it takes away from the polygamists isto that element of strength chates that came e to them bem through taylors all alleged e martyrdom art adom there was agoo a good deal to the mormon ormon cause is ia the personality ers alit of this man who bad been associated associate with ith the founder of the charen la in its early struggles who shared the imprisonment ot of the pro prophet phet in carthage jail and who carr carried ed through lite life the bullet marks lie be received in defending joseph smith on en the day he was killed by the mob the fact that taylor armed only with a cane ane faced the infuriated men who sought ought smiths life and turned their rifles rides aside was a something to fire the imagination of the mormon children and after the death ut brigham ham young all such incidents in the lite s of taylor were w ere made the most of I 1 taylora Taylor ls wide experience his bis one fine personal appearance his literary and oratorical ability he be was regarded the finest pulpit orator among the preachers rea chers and his bis great age all cout contributed contri jtb bated to make his enforced absence from salt lake city an element of strength to those who were urging the utah mormons cormons to egand by polygamy 11 the baltimore jaw makes the following remarks on the decease of our beloved president the death of john taylor Is a reminder of the severe retributive fate which seems to have pursued most of the great spirits of mormonism while the wicked undoubtedly Isome sometimes limes prosper yet vengeance often appears to descend upon them in this world joseph smith was snot shot dead while ira im poisoned in jail and hyrum smith hi his brother came to a similar end many others of the shining lights have been suddenly extinguished and now taylor dies in ignominy and exile in his bis end in this melancholy fashion the mormon chiefs remaining see an omen of the inevitable doom ot their infamous imposition we can imagine similar remarks being ing made by unbelievers believers un in ia form former r times most of the prophets whose sity lagi are arc now treasured a sing g C christians rist lans came to a violent d death th or departed in ignominy anil and exile most of the great spirits who pioneered the way of every re legious movement that has been a potent force in this world met witti with a similar fate face the great head bead and found er oz of the christian faith died in the most Ign ignominious ominous manner known to his bis age and to make his big end more contempt itile iole to the po populace palace he be was between two thieves tn ta ieves his apostles Apost lef were pursued and punished in the same spirit and came to an untimely death those shining lights were suddenly extinguished extinguish td 11 their end may be viewed au ab an omen of the inevitable doore of those these who follow them is in the teaching and practice of what their skeptical contemporaries denounced as an infamous amona imposition the conclusion jumped at then that that the treatment experienced by the great spirits ol of mormonism nim in was retributive late is not warranted by the teachings of history nor the facts in present cases when joseph and hyrum were shot ja in jail their exclaimed law cannot touch them but powder and aad ball bail yuan aney baa iad nut nt broken the law but they had bad incurred the hatred of evil men because they taught with divine authority doctrines which were in direct opposition to orthodox creeds mud acid which h were incontrovertible and this ibid enraged the professional sectarian preachers prea chera and their unreasoning dupes and those leading spirits could noc he made the tool of plundering politicians so they became the objects of their meir malice and vengeance sace president john taylor broke no law of inthe land he lived trie the law his plural lural marriages wre contracted before the act of af 1862 ithe first congressional law on the subject was enaw enacted ted he con formed to thy the law of 1882 and therefore was not legally amenable to its penalties he was pursued purt tied in the same spirit as aa that which murd murdered cred joseph and hyrum thu lonus forms ot of law perverted to excuse his persecutors were a prostitution of the law for the injury of the innocent the plain and evident meaning and aid intent of the laws lawa have beba ignored in the administration of the lawasee law as regards regarda the mormons cormons Mor mons and unprecedented ce dented warped and contradictory rulings have been substituted this thi too ift ia the spirit of vindictiveness and hatred on the tac part of tile the laws lawa representatives who from atia and bar with tr trembling ambli 1 anker anger and white lipped passieu have abused insulted and li belled the help less victims ot of their lury fury the retributive fate which must overtake the workers ol of iniquity will come to the wretches who have thus wreaked wrecked veD vengeance gence upon the servants of god going outside of the provisions ot of law to gratify their malice anti and their spite it is as sure to come came as the night when the sun goes down time is ia essential to the retribution of unerring justice the tide will turn in its season and no human hand can stay it the fate of the active persecutors of the saints is s foresh adored by the many wrecks that line the shore of the immediate past it will overtake them all as 98 the years roll on the M mormon ormon chicks remaining are stimulated to do their duty unto death by the illustrious examples of duch auch men as joseph and hyrum and john tallor tailor they never faltered or flinched from rom any known duty or placed any personal consideration be tore fore it they filled their rais mis bious mud and have gone beyond the reach ot of their enemies en emie ano and their associates who remain will persevere unto the end r regardless gard less of the taunts of the scorner the abuse of the li beller and the shafts of the would be slayer of the just and in IB the archives of eternity on the same passes pages as stand in in scribed ascribed the names barnes of the pro gheta and benefactors and saviors of the race now esteemed by the world but once despised and con will appear the names of the he seers and leaders of the latter day d dispensation is pensa perisa tion who lived for the truth died in its defense and won a martyrs crown which will be their mark ot of honor throughout eternal alges |