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Show HRIGIIA.U YOUNG AXi BOB INUKKSOtX An Interesting Lecture by Sir. Charles Kills. The federal court room was crowded last evening bj people desirous of hearing hear-ing what Mr. Charles Ellis had to say about Brigham Young and Bob Ingersoll. Inger-soll. Mr. Ellis is a very fluent and at times an eloquent speaker. He began h '.a lecture by dissecting the character of the lata Brigham Young in a most thorough thor-ough mannor. He said that the Mormon Mor-mon church had started the scum of the earth on an upgrade, and that therefore the world had been the better for its influence, in-fluence, no matter what had been the errors of its teachings. Ignorant poople had composed its original members, but the second and third generatioi 8 had progressed so that they began to inquire and to thirst for knowledge, knowl-edge, and the result was that many of them had become supporters of the republic and upholders of the Hag. The lecturer proceeded to show that during the late war not Mormon had entered the Union army,while on the other hand II. P. Kimball, a Bon of one of Brighnms counsellors, had mado his way through the Union lines and gone to General Albert Sydney Johnson to offor his personal per-sonal services to the confederacy, and also to form a Mormon batallion for the cause of the South. General Johnson told him that if the Mormons entered the service of the South they would be ground to powder and utterly exterminated, extermin-ated, and Kimball came home. Brigham Young will appear in history as a bigot, a fanatic and a tyrant. The spoakor thought he was the most selfish of selfish men, and his every move was for his own advancement advance-ment at the expense of his dupes. Had he cast his lot for the republic instead of against it, what a splendid politician he would have mado! He might have reached even the presidency. But he chose otherwise and ho failod. Truth will always prevail, and tho truth compelled com-pelled Brigham to understand that his idea of an antagonistic empire under t he star3 and stripes was impossible; hence he left the United Statos and came to these mountains and valleys, then under toreign sway. If the Mexican war had resulted in nothing elso, the bringing of this vast territory under tho jurisdiction 'if our government would have been sufficient. suf-ficient. Brigham saw this, and had he lived the speaker believed that he would have given up polygamy and everything connected with his system, even the empire of Deseret, if he could have advanced his porsonal interests thereby. Brigham, he said, was the embodiment of a priesthood, and priesthoods were the vampires of thoo-oraey; thoo-oraey; theologies are the bats of supor-itition, supor-itition, flitting through the night of ignorance and feeding on the fears thoy generate, and Brigham Young ropro-sented ropro-sented a theology. Ingersoll was a representative American, Ameri-can, patriotic to intensity, and loving his home and family. Such men as Voltaire, Vol-taire, Paine and Ingersoll had driven Jehovah and John Calvin's god out of the minds of thinking men. Tho Presby-terian Presby-terian church had cursed Ingersoll, and yet Ingersoll had compelled that church to deny its baby-burning creed. Inger-soll's Inger-soll's fault lay in the fact that he often sacrificed truth to llowery rhetoric. His agnosticism was merely an ex-iuse ex-iuse for irental idloness. What he does not know he might know if he would. He does not represent either atheism, deism, or agnosticism. His words over the open grave of a beloved brother, bonutiful beyond comparison, ivo evidence that Ingersoll is not without with-out that hope which he pictures as a star ever beckoning to those who nre striving and toiling through the trials of this earthly life. The lecturo was listened to with much attention, nnd tho speaker was often loudly applauded. Fo spoke an hour ind a half. |