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Show LIVING VOL. SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 5. OPEN LETTER To French Earl Oliver, (who calls himself AN an Evangelist.) Sir: Living Issues has heard preachers, evangelists and lecturers by the hundred. Some of them have been very illiterate, some very vulgar while others have not been very particular as to truth. These were the exceptions; the great majority being excellent and able men. Some time ago we heard the Rev. Mr. Holman preaching in Iliff church and the recollection of his eloquent sermons still dwells in our memory. On Tuesday evening we went to hear you N y wen L of outs can picture the horrid contrast. We could hardly believe that you were sober. You skipped about the platform like r. drunken Irishman at Donnybrook, looking for a head that he might hit it. Your language was an outrage on decency, and your antics simply ridiculous. When you stated that "dancing has an awful hold here, and the devil is elected president and sherifl and everything else" we might go with you, but when you said: "just as certain as a church or an individual goes into partnership with a dance, they go into partnership with bawdy houses, and with harlotry." "If any man denies it he is a dirty liar, and you can say I said so." That is simply the language of a coarse, vulgar blackguard, and would not be worth answering but for the fact that Iliff church has seen fit to put you in its pulpit. We are not defending dancing, but we know that virtuous women and pure men indulge in the practice. Many of them, judging from your language, so far above you that it is an insult to make a comparison. In Mondays Herald you are reported as saying: "The dirtiest devil in hell has dearer ideas of theology than some of the preachers I have met. The devils believe, but are still devils. The preachers dont know whether they believe or not, and yet they go on with their weekly What a nice description of mingammon;1 isters and their sermons! We leave them to answer you. The devil is said to be the father of liars, you must certainly be his child and will run him close for first place When you state, as reported in both our morning papers, that all infidels and agnostics indulge in whisky, harlotry and every other crime, it is indecently and outrageously untrue, and what is more, you know it. What can be expected from a man that counting on the ignorance ot his audience deliberately states that France has had 20 revolutions in the last 60 years and (copying from a novel) states that 10,000 children were dragged out ot the sewers last year. French morals may not be very high, but surely they are higher than "French Earl Oliver. In your sermon on Tuesday you had a good deal to say about the tongue. In all our ex perience yours is the foulest we ever found in a pulpit. We doubt if the two million pounds of soap, lately brought to our city could wash it clean. Of all the mean, contemptible cowards to be iound in the community the meanest is that man who uses the pulpit for filth and slander. You do all that, and mix it up with the choice effusions ofthe saloon and the gaming table. It this community has to bear this awful infliction One word more, for a month, we pity them foul. When you you are cunning as well as Uifl church were of members (he stated that best you had ever so good, in fact the very after were looking your bread and met, you be not surprised to hear butter and we would that you said the same in every church that hired you. You undoubtedly have ability, but the way you are using or abusing it will make one hundred infidels to every Christain. Some steps ought to be taken to stop the foul stream or else cleanse and purify it. In conclusion, we admit that our language is it if it strong; you would not understand cleanse a foul cannot You were not so. stream by pouring filthy water into it, neither can you convert a sin cursed world by methods such as yours. Change these methods and we will help you or anyone else who is honestly endeavoring to elevate humanity. The presidents message has all the earinmarks necessary to convince any well formed man that it was written according to the dictation of combined wealth. The what they voted for. people are getting Index, Med. Lodge, Kan. v 22, 1899. Successor to TH -- VACCINATION. WHAT SEVENTY THOUSANrOL ' vacLARS WOULD DO Living Issues knows something of cination, and has no hesitation in saying that Some time ago the dear people, that is to no blunder in history has needlessly inflicted say the "enterprising" portion of them, so much disease and suffering on innocent threw in their little mites to the. amount of humanity as the discovery ofjenner. $23 000 and ran into debt to thetune of $50, Like other fools, who swallowed the mistakes 0.0 ar.d built what the styled a Salt Palace. of medical science, the editor of Ihey all knew at the time that it was a worth Living Issues permitted four out of nine less structure, from which no possible good children to be vaccinated. In the case of would or could come. . All they , knew or the last child to be poisoned, the sweet little seemed to care to know was that it was to be innocent, in perfect health, was taken to a a Salt Palace. ; It has been a dismal failure, physician, who cut the healthy skin and as it ought to have heed, add would' have rubbed in rotten blood from a diseased cow. still been a failure had ' it succeeded, , for In a few days, not only was the arm inflamed nothing was ever claimed for it more than it but the whole side was a mass ofinflimation, was to be a contrivance for getting peoples and for months his life was despaired of. money by methods that are of doubtful proAny man or set of men who had demanded priety, but without danger of going to the that any of his other children should be vac- penitentiary. . cinated would have been met with all the opThis might all haye been well enough, had he which of was capable. But, says it not been for the fact that there are several position someone who has never studied the question, things the people of the city need; things "there is a concensus of opinion in favor of too, that $70,000 would have bought. For vaccination That is not true today; it instance; there is not a public hall in the city have some years ago. At the be- that is been may open for lectures and other public ginning of this century the medical men of gatherings. Every time there is a public England, Germany, Italy and America bled gathering in the city how it means bankmen and women to death, while pleading ruptcy to someone to pay the rent. A nice concensus of medical opinion. The last dis stale of affairs indeed, and that With $76,000 tinguished victim was Count Cavour, of Italy. in cold cash tied up and salted,' down in a English physicians declared that he was "Palace" that only stands as a monument to murdered. Millions had been murdered ' the stupidity of the dwellers in Zion.' before him. By vaccination thou miles Again: One hundred and seventy-fivsands have been murdered since, and the end west and a little south of the city lies one of is not yet. While in England we came di- the richest countries on earth;, known, as the rectly in contact with 22 cases of small pox. Deep Creek country. Some say that all it Of these 4 died and 18 recovered: Ofthe 18 needs is a railroad. That is largely true, but no less than 14 had never been vaccinated, do you know that $70, ooor spent to. improve while every one ofthe 4 had been the wagon road from here to that ' country and one of them less than a month be- would open it up, and that to .open it up fore taking the small pox. In Sheffield means millions on of millions of dollars top some time ago, the physicians reported 80 to the people of this city and state? Well, deaths from small pox, and stated that nCuch is the case, positively so. The writer one of them had ever been vaccinated. DtVjCts be-1- 1 r'er thr road.. It is naturally the y Steele'of that city, made a careful investiga- best road we ever saw, but with the present tion and proved that 76 of the 80 had been equipage, it is equal to one taking his life provided with certificates of successful vac- into his own hands to make the trip. Sevcination, and of the remaining there was enty thousand dollars properly spent on the every reason to believe that they also had road and in equipage would lay Deep Creek been vaccinated. The statement made quite almost on the threshold of the Temple. Bui a sensation at the time. A leeble answer it is not that way; it i3 not the way it ought was attempted but the facts were all with to be. Deep Creek with her millions of unSteel. Compel the physicians of this city to developed wealth still Les as far away as vaccinate gratuitously and you will hear very ever; is still practically an unknown region. little about it. Give some of them a chance While the money that ought to have been to make a couple of thousand dollars and used to open it up lies imbedded in a mix they will try to make it compulsory, even if ture of salt and silliness where il does no one they vaccinate a few for nothing. In a short any good, never did and never will. The time we propose getting such an array of next time you have $70,000 to spend look facts against this villianous practice as will about you and see il you cannot find a belter open the eyes of the blindest believer in the place to put it than in a Salt Palace. monstrous delusion meantime we say to parents; protect your childrens lives ai d THOUGHTS BY BISHOP WHATELY health; let no man endanger their lives by Misgive that you may not mistake. blood their otherwise into putting poisoned Nothing is harmless that is mistaken for a bodies. virtue. healthy He that is not open for conviction is not A NEW FEATURE. qualified for discussion. According to announcement, a number of The dread of inconsistency must never be minions of slaves of the so called Merchants suffered to swallow up the dread of error. Protective Association are to be sent on the We must always think our opinions are prowl after bad debts in January 1 900. This right, but not think our opinions are right may result in great annoyance to the sensa-tiv- e always and honest men and women who mean Though not always called upon to conto pay. To the chronic dead beat, and the demn ourselves, it is always safe to suspect systematically dishonest they will only be a ourselves. source of mirth. It seems to Living Issues The next best thing to understanding the that there is great need to be protected whole of any subject is to be aware of that against the Protective Association. Legiti- part ol it we do not understand. mate collecting of debts is just as proper as A confident expectation that no argument anything Ise in our present commercial state. will be adduced that will change our opinions But when, as we know in the not very distant is very different from a resolution that none past, arrangements could be made with ever shall. J ustices of the Peace to issue summons and Falsehood, like poison, will generally be hear cases, with the understanding that they rejected when admitted alone, but, when were only to be paid by results. It was olended with wholesome ingredients, may be simply monstrous. Vultures love to feed on swallowed unperceived. oflal and there is a certain class of human The more disposed any one is to submisbeings who seem to gloat over hunting pocr sive veneration to the greater the importance unfortunate debtors, not legitimately but by of guarding him against misdirected venera-io- n and such as tricks, cunning, sharp practice, against false piety; against receiving as no decent lawyer would resort to. Surely divine what in reality is human. decent firms ought not to countenance such The old proverb, "A tool can ask more things. The Protective Association is by no questions than a wise man can answer," may means the only scavenger. It is charged very fairly have this added as a rider to it: against quite a number that when they agree "A wise man cannot ask more questions than to take 50 per cent, they more frequently ne will find fools ready to answer." keep it all. Be that as it may, with several hundred lawyers waiting lor a job, it would Imperialism, militarism and goldbugistn be well to give some of these harpies the go constitute the republican trinity. Pittsburg Kansan. bye. MOUNTAIN, ADVOCATE. NO. 50. If this number is on the label con- tainlntr your name, you had better as that Is the numiu r nfr.Sl8nextrohfhty issue. quick, OCQ A MESSAGE OF PEACE. so-call- so-call- 1 .' e . , REFORM PRESS. (As we approach the "Christinas tide, and peace on earth and good will to men, with merry greetings are on every hand, let us think calmly of "our war" and ask ourselves "What has the Filipino done that we should be hunting him like a stag in the glen?") Bid the din of battle cease! Folded by the wings of fire! Let your courage conquer peace Every gentle hearts desire. Let the crimson flood retreat! Blended in the arc of love. Let the flags of nations meet: ' Bind the raven, loose the dove. At the altar that we raise King and Kaiser may fall down: Warrior knights above their bays Wear the sacred olive crown. , . - Blinding passion is subdued. Men discerned their common God made of common blood All the people of the earth. . . birth: High and holy are the gifts He hath lavished on the race Hope that quickens prayer that lifts Honors meed and beauty grace. As in heaven's bright face we look Let our kindling souls expand, Let us pledge on natures book, Heart to heart and hand to hand. For the glory that we saw In the battle flag unfurled; Let us read Christs belter law, Fellowship for all the world. - - ' . Seventy thousand dollars for a worthless Salt Palace but not one cent for a pest house. The Pope has appointed a commission of cardinals to investigate the questio 1 of Our letter to Angus M. Cannon is held over until next week. Dont forget to read it and get your friends 10 read it also. 11 Roiiekts should be called the modHe has not oniy pulled dowd Samson. ern the temple on himself but on his enemies and friends as well. B What some loiks don't know, if properly collected and printed, would make quite a pamphlet and would contaiu a great deal of valuable information. The workingmen can accomplish a great deal when they all pull together, but they cm accomplish only defeat when they pull against each other. Memphis, Tenn., Labor Journal. If all ihe men who do not know why they vote the way they do should suddenly die, what eflect do you think it would have on the next election? Do you think that Me Kinley would be elected? Not on your life. When the people vote on the laws corwill not be able to get monopoly porate which enable them to acspecial privileges quire fortunes of millions in a few years. Bingh.impton Indipendent. A workman was being subjected to an interrogation by the police. He was asked who were his leaders. "I have three, he replied, "first, hunger; second, the master which capitalist: third, the government, comes and demands an increasing tax every Class Struggle. year. First Assistant Postmaster General Perry Heath, says that rural tree delivery of mail has. so far, increased the postal receipts, and that it adds to the farms reached by the service $2 or $3 per acre, it also doubled and even quadrupled the amount of mail received in communities Eighty small postoffices have been dispensed with since the introduction of the free delivery system. Star and Kansan. All of which goes to prove that the landlord is the tellow who gets the benefit. Score another point in favor of the Single Taxer. Under his system it would not be thus. |
